On 10/8/07, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>
> > It may be the case that we have cut our
> > abstractions too high to take advantage of some architectural features
> > present in modern microprocessors -- it may be that we want to allow
>
> I might draw a different conclusion.  As with some peculiar memory
> subsystems,
> botched device interfaces, or 80 core processors, I'd say that perhaps the
> architectural features are there
> to meet the needs of hardware designers and are not actually designed to
> run the programs
> people are actually writing.  Perhaps someone told them the software
> people wanted
> some of this stuff, but I've got my doubts!
>
> We can't make em faster, so we'll make more of em and put em on one die!
Now deal with shared memory problems...

== Hey look Erlang!

And now suddenly CSP gets more attention again too!

Dave