Comments on: AMD open-sources code for multicore development

Chipmaker's Framewave software, now available on SourceForge, is a set of libraries for optimizing multimedia applications on x86 hardware.

[slickuser]

Good stuff but...

who wants to rewrite their existing legacy revenue making apps? it would cost them alot. Only new products can take advantage of this. Intel also has similar libraries for years (thread profiler, vtune etc) No one takes advantage of them. Majority of the apps don't show any performance improvement on dual core or quad core. This has to change!!

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[therealbean]

Confused about products

Framewave, or the former APL, does not correspond to Intel's Thread Profiler or VTune, which are not libraries. Rather, it corresponds to Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives, or IPP. The difference is that the IPP library while somewhat larger is a commercial product (i.e., $$) and closed source.

[BALTHOR1]

The CPU is a memory chip

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