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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:11:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <870B7FD6-B6CF-44FC-ABBD-60BD0285524E@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMnNGhKmKrkQYEKQd=zGaBY74oUf1HSS1PbpnWoMiSgnsr=Tw@mail.gmail.com>

On Jun 26, 2018, at 3:33 PM, Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com> wrote:
>  
> David Chisnall is known for pushing Go as a next generation C.  He even wrote a book about it.  I think he has a point in saying that Go was created as direct remedy to many things in C.  Most of it features come from decades of experience working with C, and seeing ways in which it can be improved.

I primarily write code in Go these days and like it a lot (as
a "better" C) but I am not sure it will have C's longevity.
It still uses a flat shared memory model. This is harder and
harder for hardware to emulate efficiently (and comes with
more complexity) at smaller and smaller minimum feature sizes
and higher & higher CPU clock rates & on-chip comm speeds. We
need something other than a better C to squeeze maximum
performance out of a CPU built out of 100s to 1000s of cores.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-27  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-26 17:54 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 18:03 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-06-26 21:21   ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-06-26 21:56   ` Kurt H Maier
2018-06-26 18:52 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 19:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:16   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 21:50     ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 21:54       ` Ronald Natalie
2018-06-26 21:59         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-26 22:20           ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-26 22:33             ` Arthur Krewat
2018-06-26 23:53               ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-27  8:30             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-26 22:33           ` Andy Kosela
2018-06-27  0:11             ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2018-06-27  6:10               ` arnold
2018-06-27  2:18           ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectTures Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-27  2:22             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:36             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2018-06-27 11:26         ` [TUHS] PDP-11 legacy, C, and modern architectures Tony Finch
2018-06-27 14:33           ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 14:38             ` Clem Cole
2018-06-27 15:30             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-27 16:55               ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-27  6:27     ` arnold
2018-06-27 16:00 ` Steve Johnson
2018-06-28  4:12   ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-28 14:15     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-28 14:40       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 14:55         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:58           ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:39             ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:02               ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 16:41                 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-28 16:59                   ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 17:09                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:32                     ` tfb
2018-06-29 16:09                       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 17:51                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 18:27                         ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-06-29 19:02                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 20:37                 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 15:37         ` Clem Cole
2018-06-28 20:37           ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 14:43       ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 14:56         ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-28 15:07           ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 19:42           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 19:55             ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:42             ` Warner Losh
2018-06-28 21:03               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 22:29                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29  0:18                   ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 15:41                     ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 18:01                       ` Larry McVoy
2018-06-29 19:07                         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29  5:58                   ` Michael Kjörling
2018-06-28 20:52             ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-06-28 21:07               ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-28 16:45       ` Paul Winalski
2018-06-28 20:47         ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29 15:43         ` emanuel stiebler
2018-06-29  2:02       ` Bakul Shah
2018-06-29 12:58         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-06-29 18:41           ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-06-29  1:02 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-29  1:06 Noel Chiappa

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