From: Alain Frisch <frisch@clipper.ens.fr>
To: William Chesters <williamc@dai.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Ocaml Machine (was Re: speed versus C)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:36:46 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9910121630590.6673-100000@clipper> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26571.199910111758@insch>
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, William Chesters wrote:
> This was tried in the 80s on quite a large scale by Symbolics, with
> the Lisp machine (to which you will find 1000s of references on the
> net).
Yes, I heard about it (how could I miss it : I'm working at the MIT AI
Lab :) ).
> could take a readily available SPARC or StrongARM core and tack some
> GC support onto it, I don't know. Certainly Sun are hyping their MAJC
> Java chip pretty strongly.
Yes, I was thinking about modifying an existing chip. For instance, adding
a tag bit to every machine word should not be so difficult.
Alain Frisch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-12 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-03 21:35 speed versus C Jan Brosius
1999-10-04 21:59 ` skaller
1999-10-05 23:22 ` chet
1999-10-06 10:22 ` skaller
1999-10-05 20:20 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-06 15:21 ` William Chesters
1999-10-06 22:49 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-07 10:26 ` Michel Quercia
1999-10-07 10:46 ` William Chesters
1999-10-07 15:48 ` Pierre Weis
1999-10-07 19:21 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-08 0:26 ` William Chesters
1999-10-10 16:27 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-10 20:48 ` William Chesters
1999-10-10 23:54 ` Alain Frisch
1999-10-11 17:58 ` William Chesters
1999-10-12 14:36 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
1999-10-12 15:32 ` Ocaml Machine (was Re: speed versus C) David Monniaux
1999-10-12 15:42 ` Alain Frisch
1999-10-11 19:32 ` speed versus C John Prevost
1999-10-11 20:50 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-12 20:07 ` skaller
1999-10-08 9:56 ` Pierre Weis
1999-10-07 15:25 ` Markus Mottl
1999-10-07 6:56 ` skaller
1999-10-07 12:37 ` Xavier Urbain
1999-10-07 22:18 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-08 19:15 ` skaller
1999-10-08 13:40 ` Anton Moscal
1999-10-06 7:58 ` Reply to: " Jens Olsson
1999-10-13 13:44 OCaml machine (was: Re: speed versus C) Juergen Pfitzenmaier
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