Peter sounds great May i suggest that we start the site afresh on wikidot.com this gives us access to a free decent wiki allowing collaboration. This approach allows us to focus resources on the code and not be concerned with site maintainance and operations. All collaborators can easily access and make changes to language specifications and documentation.
Kind regards Stewart On 10 Oct 2011 20:19, "Peter Van Roy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mozart hackers, > > After the discussion on Lambda the Ultimate on the new Mozart VM, > I think we should go for the following: > > - Simple and elegant VM, as easy to maintain as possible > (Yves' original idea of no more tagged pointers) > - Attach Distribution Subsystem to this VM with glue layer (as it is > currently to the current VM) > - Attach Gecode to this VM with glue layer (as were the plans for Mozart > 1.5.0 and started in Colombia) > > With the following reflections: > > - Multicore execution will be done through the Distribution Subsystem. > (only coarse-grained parallelism, but this is ok since data-intensive > calculations are parallel) > - The original constraint system of Mozart is now outdated, we have to step > to a new one. > (nested computation spaces will disappear, but maybe we can replace them > by spaces "next to each other") > - No target to JVM. We don't want to be limited by JVM limitations such as > expensive threads. > We should not try to compete with Java or Scala. Our role as researchers > is to try new ideas, not to copy > other systems. So far, Mozart has played this role well, and we should > continue this role. > > If you all agree, we should get this show on the road as quickly as > possible. > > Peter > > ______________________________**______________________________** > _____________________ > mozart-hackers mailing list > [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/** > mailman/listinfo/mozart-**hackers<http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-hackers> >
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