Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > Bruno Marchal writes: > > >>The UD is both massively parallel >>and massively sequential. Recall the UD generates all programs and >>executes them all together, but one step at a time. The "D" is for >>dovetailing which is a technic for emulating parallelism sequentially. > > > Given that no actual physical hardware is needed to run it, why did > you choose the UD to generate all the computations rather than just > saying they are all run in parallel. There is enough room in Platonia > for infinite parallel virtual machines, isn't there? > > Stathis Papaioannou
Or why run it at all. Platonia is timeless, so the "generation" of programs exists timelessly as an abstract process. The ordering is implicit, not temporal. Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
