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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  2 May 2008 08:07:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9
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> That sounds somewhat similar to Dan Bernstein's qhasm
> (http://cr.yp.to/qhasm.html) which is a semi-portable assembly
> language combining C-like syntax w/ direct access to registers.
> Anathema to the Plan 9 philosophy I suppose but given that clock
> speeds seem to have hit a wall it's one way to wring out more speed.
> To be fair he seems to intend it to be used only for number crunching
> inner loops rather than as a general purpose language.

issues per clock have been rising on intel chips.  ibm power chips are
shipping at 5Ghz.  for typical parallel number-crunching app, i would
think that performance is increasing by leaps and bounds with the
addition of more cores.

- erik