AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Kathy Quinlan <kat-yahoo@k...> wrote:

> I have to process a text file
> that can be up to 10Tb in size,
> the data is only ascii, so I
> can not see the point for a
> larger sized CPU. Once a string
> is found, all it needs to do is
> hand the string up to the next 
> CPU for serving.

If you're processing text, why are you concerned with Gflops? Why do 
you need floating point? Your line of thinking that you should use an 
8-bit CPU to process text is broken. Any decent algorithm you choose 
will need memory pointers and you want to hold them in registers so 
you need a bigger CPU. You're not thinking of a linear search, are 
you? Also, before we all put more effort into helping you, could you 
confirm that you have a multi-million dollar budget for this? If you 
don't, you can forget a custom CPU right now.

Graham.