Pier Fumagalli wrote: > > "Hunsberger, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > >> > >> I'm playing with the idea of making an attempt at a SAX hardware > >> accelerator, just for the heck of it, but won't bother if it is > >> already in the "ignorable" > >> magnitude. > > > > You mean something like: > > > > http://www.datapower.com/products/xa35.html > > > > Of course, it doesn't run Cocoon, but if you've really got a heavy > > duty XSLT load it may be something that you can justify > wiring up on a > > custom basis... > > Interesting... XSLTC but done native instead of done through > a JVM... I wonder if they generate straight optimized > bytecode for the processor directly interpreting the stylesheet... > > Pier (old assembly fart) >
Any bets it's just a heavily optimized Linux system running a JVM under the covers? A long time ago I was involved with a project trying to find a use for a highly parallel piece of hardware. I did a conceptual design for an OS based around directly addressable tree structured data: building such a beast do just do parsing would be almost trivial. However, adding in XSLT is a lot more interesting. Part of the conceptual design included instructions for tree unions, intersections, differences etc. so I can certainly see how parts of it would be easy. However, I'd really want to have a general purpose OS feeding the special purpose hardware so that I wouldn't have to implement stuff like translating character sets and running a HTTP stack to look up a DTD... Peter (was just reminiscing about the old days of coding directly on the hardware this morning)
