Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!ix.netcom.com!vcc
From: Steve Casselman <sc@vcc.com>
Subject: Re: Theory #51 (superior(?) programming languages)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <32F03A98.4D99@vcc.com>
Sender: vcc@netcom11.netcom.com
Reply-To: sc@vcc.com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: Virtual Computer Corp.
References: <3059948144828413@naggum.no> <1997Jan2108.28.23.6335@koobera.math.uic.edu>
			<3062850267355805@naggum.no>
			<1997Jan2123.11.15.1935@koobera.math.uic.edu>
			<5cb9vd$qlf@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> <GJR.97Jan29110355@hplgr2.hpl.hp.com> <32EFB4B7.2185@vcc.com> <vrotneyE4svCw.53L@netcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 06:07:20 GMT
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I)
Lines: 36
Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.arch:74821 comp.lang.lisp:24951 comp.lang.scheme:18252

William Paul Vrotney wrote:
> 
> In article <32EFB4B7.2185@vcc.com> Steve Casselman <sc@vcc.com> writes:
> >
> > Most languages would run better if they ran on special
> > machine designed for that language. I'm wondering what
> > the thoughts are on design a machine that accelerates
> > lisp in some way.
> >
> 
> Why just accelerates Lisp, that's what was done on the Symbolics.  Why not a
> machine that in fact *is* a Lisp interpreter?  I posted a rough approach to
> doing this awhile back on this group.
> 
> > With FPGAs you can build anything you want check out
> > http://www.vcc.com/hotann.html
> >
> 
> I don't know much about the H.O.T. stuff, but one of the problems with
> building a HISC (High Level Instruction Set Computer, just made that up) is
> to make sure that it is based on chip generation software as opposed to just
> reconfigurable hardware since the resulting machine might be too slow to
> compete with say an Intel chip.
> 
> --
> 
> William P. Vrotney - vrotney@netcom.com
If you take the picojava as an example it runs java 15 times faster than
a Pentium.
(EE-Times jan 13 97 p56) so if a picojava runs at 33MHz it will take a
500MHz
Pentium to keep up. This artical also stated that the picojava ran 5 1/2
times
faster than just in time compilers.

Steve Casselman
