> That sounds somewhat similar to Dan Bernstein's qhasm > (http://cr.yp.to/qhasm.html) which is a semi-portable assembly > language combining C-like syntax w/ direct access to registers. > Anathema to the Plan 9 philosophy I suppose but given that clock > speeds seem to have hit a wall it's one way to wring out more speed. > To be fair he seems to intend it to be used only for number crunching > inner loops rather than as a general purpose language.
issues per clock have been rising on intel chips. ibm power chips are shipping at 5Ghz. for typical parallel number-crunching app, i would think that performance is increasing by leaps and bounds with the addition of more cores. - erik
