ARM servers and Rasp Pi (Was: Lack of open source shown as negative part of D on Dr. Dobbs)

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On 10 May 2012 12:38, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net>wrote:

> On 10/05/12 10:18, deadalnix wrote:
>
>> Le 10/05/2012 06:35, Nick Sabalausky a écrit :
>>
>>> Really? ARM servers? This is the first I've heard of it. (Intel must be
>>> crapping themselves.)
>>>
>>
>> ARM is more energy efficient than x86 . This is a more and more serious
>> alternative for datacenters.
>>
>
> Yea, it's in the process of arriving now but is surely going to be a very
> big deal -- lower energy consumption, lower heat production (= more densely
> packed datacentres), cheaper individual nodes ...
>
> See e.g.:
> http://www.bbc.com/news/**technology-15540910<http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-15540910>
> https://www.pcworld.com/**article/249988/hp_to_make_arm_**
> servers_available_for_testing_**in_q2.html<https://www.pcworld.com/article/249988/hp_to_make_arm_servers_available_for_testing_in_q2.html>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/**2012/01/arm-servers-lca/<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/01/arm-servers-lca/>
>
> When you also factor in that within a year you're likely to be seeing full
> desktop solutions running off ARM-based phone/tablet devices [see e.g.
> http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/**android<http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android>] it should be apparent that ARM is a very important target for D.
>
> To me, that's a reason as compelling as the licensing issues (if not more
> so) why the reference D compiler might want to switch to an alternative
> backend.
>

Amen! :)
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