Here is IBM's announcement: http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/news/2004/0331_power.html
and Wired's blurb on it: http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62885,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 What would you do if you could design ideal h/w support for python or a python VM? For memory allocation/garbage collection? Monitoring/detecting dynamic conditions triggering recompilation/re-optimization etc? Position-independent code and structures? Threading/context switching/timeouts/atomic queue stuff/etc? Profiling support at the hardware level? Crypto stuff? Sandboxing/capability support/etc? How would pypy adapt-to/have-an-advantage-in-exploiting the existence of such a configurable h/w platform? Anyway, just thought I'd pass on an interesting blurb maybe to keep in mind. Regards, Bengt Richter _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
