From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:00:50 +1100 From: Sam Watkins To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20091019160050.GC13857@nipl.net> References: <3e1162e60910150807w52ff067eq533e4cbd7493fee0@mail.gmail.com> <20091016172113.GC3135@nipl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8b5a9bbe-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 01:12:58AM +0000, Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > I would appreciate if the folks who were in the room correct me, but if I'm > not mistaken Ken was alluding to some FPGA work/ideas that he had done > and my interpretation of his comments was that if we *really* want to > make things parallel we have to bite the bullet, ditch multicore and rethink > our strategy. Certainly, I agree that normal multi-core is not the best approach, FPGA systems or similar could run a lot faster. Sam