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From: Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Multiflow Compiler
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 23:46:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C0A0EB80-3729-4921-B176-85DE6E42584B@serissa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBfdfDq7G70ZhM0drsd9=i6AnesMOmdO-kyiS7w0zJuoMA@mail.gmail.com>

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Well some of the authors of the trace scheduling paper from Multiflow, Geoff Lowney, and Bob Nix, wound up at Digital in the early 90’s.  Geoff is now an Intel Fellow, still doing compilers.

-L

> On Apr 1, 2024, at 2:44 PM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I happened upon https://old.gustavobarbieri.com.br/trabalhos-universidade/mc722/lowney92multiflow.pdf and I am curious as to whether any of the original Multiflow compilers survive.  I had never heard of them before now, but the fact that they were licensed to so many influential companies makes me think that there might be folks on this list who know of its history.
> 
> -Henry


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-02  3:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-01 18:44 [TUHS] " Henry Bent
2024-04-01 18:53 ` [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2024-04-01 19:12   ` Luther Johnson
2024-04-02  3:46 ` Lawrence Stewart [this message]
2024-04-02 15:53 ` Paul Winalski
2024-04-02 16:37   ` Paul Winalski
     [not found] <171209236009.1214089.9696983396368447310@minnie.tuhs.org>
2024-04-02 22:55 ` Paul McJones
2024-04-02 23:46   ` Luther Johnson

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