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Denver isn't close to dead. I work in the Denver team at NVIDIA. If you mean market adoption, yes - Nexus 9 is the only major device to have shipped with Denver
by scriptdevil 10y ago
Denver isn't close to dead. I work in the Denver team at NVIDIA. If you mean market adoption, yes - Nexus 9 is the only major device to have shipped with Denver cores as of today. But development is still very active internally.
- lgeek 10y agoSomewhat off topic, but I wish NVIDIA published more information about Denver's DBO and the reasoning behind some design decisions. For example the company line is to just generate 'decent code' and let the DBO take care of it [0], but that clearly doesn't always work in practice [1], which requires a lot of trial & error and some reverse engineering to generate good code for it. Also, the decision to always invalidate the translation when writing to an executable page (or whatever other super slow operation is done in that case) seems odd (and affects the performance of some JIT approaches) since ARM software is expected to explicitly flush the caches when modifying code anyway. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuXA0_9feM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuXA0_9feM [1] https://github.com/ssvb/tinymembench/wiki/Nexus-9-(Tegra-TK1-T132---Denver) https://github.com/ssvb/tinymembench/wiki/Nexus-9-(Tegra-TK1...