The joy of concurrent logic programming

Re:The joy of concurrent logic programming by carapace on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:48PM (#29141669)

I kept reading but I did have a "hey, that's kind of unfair" reaction at that line. It's not their fault that the speed of light is a hard limit, eh?

There's a chicken and egg problem with compilers and languages on the one side and machines architectures and instruction sets on the other, it's not easy breaking the mold. (GPUs are a counter-example perhaps?)

CPU designers can't all be Ivan Godard ( https://hackaday.com/2013/08/02/the-mill-cpu-architecture/ https://millcomputing.com/ ) or Chuck Moore ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Moore#Hardware_desi... http://www.greenarraychips.com/ ) eh?

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Re:The joy of concurrent logic programming by Syzygies on Sunday November 07, 2021 @02:37PM (#29142709)

> It's not their fault that the speed of light is a hard limit, eh?

If you're at Intel, you not likely to see this as a calm period bereft of ideas, while Apple silicon has made such strides. New ideas, or simply a rebalancing of familiar ideas, can make significant progress against the same physics.

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