Re: Somewhat offtopic: any suggestions/wishes for a programming language amenable to strong optimisation?

On Apr 27, 11:55 am, ernobe <ern...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Perhaps it is time to place the discussion in proper historical
context. RISC is the way to go, as was demonstrated by performance
tests during the RISC/CISC controversy in the late 1980s' ( see the
excellent entry on RISC in wikipedia for more on this ),

Yeah, especially the line in the article that says:

"As of 2004, x86 chips are the fastest CPUs in SPECint displacing all
RISC CPUs,..."


and it will
happen once the money-making spree/bing CISC are based on runs out of
steam.

People have been predicting this for over 20 years, now.

Therefore, if we want to promote scientific pursuits in our
universities, we should develop a language in consonance with
scientific fact, a language in which programs can be written which
take advantage of the CPU time allotted to them to the fullest extent
possible, using a computer and an OS which are not specifically
designed to limit the individuals' use of it

Well, given that most new CPUs are multi-core productions, and using
those CPUs to their fullest extent requires using all the cores, I
would argue that this new language you're talking about would need to
leverage the concurrent-thread capabilities of these new CPUs. So I
suspect we are in agreement here.
hLater,
Randy Hyde


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