Re:The Itanic Has Sunk
by lmm on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:48AM
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> What types of languages do you see would enable more efficient VLIW compilers?
I was thinking of languages where dependencies are more explicit and the idea of a global evaluation order isn't there in the first place. I'd be very interested to see a reduceron-style effort that implemented graph-reduction evaluation on a VLIW processor.
> Somehow I suspect the limited uptake of better suited languages to be a sign that they aren't very helpful most of the time, and most of the parallel operations people do is more like serving a lot of individually sequential transactions per second, which is something C and unix is pretty good at.
Heh, that was the idea that those barrel-processor SPARCs were designed around. But they weren't so successful in the market either in the end.
I was thinking of languages where dependencies are more explicit and the idea of a global evaluation order isn't there in the first place. I'd be very interested to see a reduceron-style effort that implemented graph-reduction evaluation on a VLIW processor.
> Somehow I suspect the limited uptake of better suited languages to be a sign that they aren't very helpful most of the time, and most of the parallel operations people do is more like serving a lot of individually sequential transactions per second, which is something C and unix is pretty good at.
Heh, that was the idea that those barrel-processor SPARCs were designed around. But they weren't so successful in the market either in the end.