>From OO to FPGA: Fitting Round Objects into Square Hardware? [1] was one of the interesting talks I sat in on when I attended SPLASH. I was primarily interested in attending because of VPRI's long-range mission and the speculation that FPGA hardware will be fundamental to its top-to-bottom, side-to-side late-bound approach. Ian was asked about compiling FONC stuff to FPGAs late 2009 [2], and he replied by saying FONC loves FPGA concepts but has no FPGA experts and so has no concrete plans for using FPGA at the moment [3].
Jens Palsberg gave the talk. He proclaimed at the end that this will be one of the most important open, hard problems for the next 10 years. He said that there is a lot of redundancy between the front-end and back-end tools and we really need to collapse the two intermediate representations used into a single form, because too much information has to get reconstructed when you use a subset of the C language as an IR. Interestingly, Jens alluded during his talk that it took him 3 years to get this work published and he had to refine it to satisfy reviewers. On Thursday morning, before the keynote, conference chairperson Martin Rinard made a reference a paper that took 3 years to get accepted, and he said it was a shame that such important research took so long to get through the review process, because the research was innovative. He may have been referring to this paper. [1] http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/paper/oopsla10.pdf [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00940.html [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00941.html
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