So I'm stumbling along happily playing with various ideas to do with minimal microprocessor design (thanks for all of the wonderful pointers everyone) and invariably my mind wanders from time to time to what I'd need to do to make it fast.
I could try representing netlists as s-exprs and letting natures own search engine look for faster variations of my design, but I worry that I might end up with something nightmarishly complex at the end of that slog. Another thought I had was using some nice symmetry that would let the processor do more than one thing at once. Of course if I shipped a microprocessor that had weird deadlock issues, I'd be inclined to call it a lemon. I know processors are usually concurrent in one way or another nowadays (and I recognize my own naïveté wrt the field, so please forgive) and I was wondering: Has anyone taken the actor model down to the metal? _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
