Re: [oc] think different (was: Beyond Transmeta...)

["Marko Mlinar" <Marko.Mlinar@campus.fri.uni-lj.si>]

> Leyland,
> 
> I fear your ideas may be wasted if you insist on running X86 binaries
> or even recompiling conventional languages such as C.
I noticed you have quite a overwiew in this field, but I somehow
disagree with you. I think that code should be written in C/C++
or Java, but then somehow converted to parallel languages.
I know this cannot be done by any currently used algorithms,
but I am working on it :) I've already found some formal decisions
you can make in certain cases to achieve parallity in (relatively) non-
parallel programs.

> You should consider different architectures (like Dataflow, which was a
> popular research topic in the 1980s) and different languages (like
> SISAL or similar functional languages).
Functional languages would be perfect for such computers, but
problem is that nobody uses them...
or2000 is almost completly build on dataflow idea :)

regards,
    Marko