Stefan O'Rear writes:
Jake McArthur wrote:
On Nov 17, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
The STG-machine was brilliant when it was designed, but times have changed. ... really the air is ripe for a new abstract machine.
Do you know of any candidates? Hahaha - no. (Do ask John Meacham though - he keeps *saying* he has a new AM...) Stefan
I think that many people work on that, and the STG creators in particular. SPJ regularly emits some papers on parallelisation. If I am not mistaken, the paper of both Simons and Tim Harris, about Haskell on a shared memory multiprocessor, has more than two years. Some people speculate about making Haskell on the Clean G-machine, others think about Java-like architectures... The world *IS* steadily progressing, no need to hahaha-dynamite an open door saying that "the air is ripe...". Jerzy Karczmarczuk