Transitive?

[Dennis Brown]

Transitive is real.  I have been watching them for several years  
waiting for the realization of a commercial application of it.  It is  
real cool.  Checkout their web site.  This would make a lot of sense  
for Apple.  They could switch to different processors at the low,  
mid, and high ends without worrying about the low level instruction  
set.  There is virtually no speed penalty for this for basic  
applications.  However, if the hardware has special features that  
need to be coded directly to enable very special OS level functions,  
they would be hard to translate directly.  But this would be a tiny  
part of the low level OS stuff.  For scientific applications in  
multiprocessor configurations --I am not sure.  But for the normal  
stuff we are interested in, this would allow Apple to treat the  
processor as just another component --like a different graphics board.

Dennis

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:22 AM, John Ridge wrote:

> BBC News reports "Technology news site The Register also reports  
> that Apple
> has licensed technology from a company called Transitive which makes
> software that makes it easier to port programs on to different chip
> architectures"
>
> If the current rumours are correct, is Revolution stymied? If, by  
> magic,
> apps developed on any platform can be run without change on any  
> other, what
> need is there for cross-platform tools like Rev?
>
> Still a fascinating IDE, but it's lost a major selling point... Is
> Transitive real?
> -- 
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