Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> The big problem is that time is a variable in our systems, *and we
> don't account for it*.  In spite of its best efforts, asynchronous
> logic *still* hasn't made significant penetration into VLSI design
> because it suffers from all the same problems that software does. 
> Consequently, everybody in VLSI still pretty much relies on a global
> clock to lock everything together.
If you look at how concurrency is handled in Erlang and Haskell, you'll
have a better understanding of how managing "state" and managing "time"
are really two sides of the same coin. Time only matters when there are
changes of state.

--Chris

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