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From: Steve Casselman <sc@vcc.com>
Subject: Re: Theory #51 (superior(?) programming languages)
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Ketil Z Malde wrote:
> 
> Steve Casselman <sc@vcc.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> And the picojava architecture will run other languages at a decent speed
> as well?   And its development keep up with JIT compiler technology?

By using reconfigurable technology you could design a picolisp, 
picosmalltalk, picohaskell, picoC++ and have them all run on the same
silicon but swapp them in and out in microseconds. I know it is hard
to accept a new way of doing things but the above pico jive is just
to point out with reconfigurable technology you are the master
over hardware. 

You want to know what is really going to rock the world is evolvable
hardware see http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/index.html
for a far out look at the furture.  

Steve Casselman
