Greg Ewing wrote: > Tim Peters wrote: > >> Yes, but I don't think anyone's offering to build a P3K chip for us ;-) > > Since you mention it, one of the things that's been > occupying my mind in idle moments recently is trying to > imagine what a Python chip *would* be like, and maybe > even designing it and prototyping it with an FPGA.
Since MyHDL now exists, it may even be possible to write and test the prototype in Python. > Whether the project will ever get that far is highly > uncertain yet, but it's an interesting thing to think > about. Some of the ideas I've been considering include > keeping all the object headers, including refcount, > size, type pointer and maybe some flags, in a separate > specialised memory with its own cache and maybe its own > bus. Or even in the FPGA's own memory. > Another idea is just keeping the low-order byte of the > refcount in a special high-speed memory, so that you > only need to touch main memory for about 1 in 256 > inc/decrefs. > > This is getting off-topic for Py3k, though. Any hardware > buffs interested in discussing these ideas further are > welcome to contact me by email. Yes. I'll shut up now. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
