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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




  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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