[HN Gopher] What's New in M68k LLVM (May 2023)
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What's New in M68k LLVM (May 2023)
Author : zdw
Score : 8 points
Date : 2023-05-26 17:11 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| ilaksh wrote:
| I keep getting LLVM confused with LLM. So I assumed this was a
| LLM fine-tuned for writing M68k assembly code somehow.
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| Not sure about M68k but maybe there is an 8 bit system with
| enough documented assembly code and combining that with the text
| of the manuals.. maybe there is a way to somehow make a text-
| to-8bit assembly program AI model.
| doublepg23 wrote:
| Is there an M68K CPU that's considered "fast enough" for most
| things today or is this a fun retro-computing effort?
| dmitrygr wrote:
| There actually exists an insane project by some madmen that
| implements a modern OoO 68k-compatible core. It has a typical
| IPC north of 3! (compared to a real 68k, which is lucky to have
| an IPC of 0.3 on a good day). It is truly a work of marvel!
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| http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=features
| suprjami wrote:
| afaics this is used in Amiga accelerator cards and doubles
| the performance of an Amiga A4000 which ran at 25MHz. So
| nothing we'd really consider modern.
| dmitrygr wrote:
| I suspect you might be mistaken. The IPC uplift at same
| clock rate compared to a stock 68k is over 5x in _all_
| cases, often more.
| erwan577 wrote:
| this is a proprietary FPGA design. The effective
| performance is limited by FPGA technology for now. Maybe
| additionnal design work would be required for an ASIC
| targeting latest foundry nodes.
| SillyUsername wrote:
| As well as the Apollo FPGA emulated one there's an ARM based
| M68K emulator https://github.com/michalsc/Emu68
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