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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by christkv on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:29AM (#50450309)
so reinventing the transputer?
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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by librasteve on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:31AM (#50450685)
unfinished business
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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by christkv on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:33AM (#50450698)
Maybe what was missing as the llms to be honest to get these kind of architectures to work as you can have it run optimisations loop against hardware like this.
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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by librasteve on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @02:44AM (#50450761)
yeah well there's a perennial problem of needing innovative languages to get this to work (Vine?) vs. the temptation to package this sw with chips and become a closed technology

I made Bil as a way to try and break that - built on Go (and LLVM) under BSD. Quite easy to run up a simple scheduler for any new architecture particularly if they are an LLVM target.

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Re:$30M Raised to Redo the CPU by christkv on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:37AM (#50451835)
For sure, we need some sensible target for this to work with enough information to be able to generate performant code.
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