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[Golfbum]

A number of companies have from time to time built array processors or coprocessors; most have disappeared. They never get sufficient standardization in their implementation to make it worth it for all but a few specialized applications. Standard software package companies are very leery of porting to such things considering the risky payback.

I suppose someone will go for one or two such machines if Clearspeed can convince them. I don't expect much more than that. Even then it will be for someone who has their own source code and lots of time [aka student slavelabor ] to do the porting and tuning.

Standard architectures have always won out eventually as they end up with nearly the same performance after all the overhead is factored in.

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