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> Besides, there's little debate to be had on what's the best model. Are you saying there is no debate that functional is the best model because that is what i
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
> Besides, there's little debate to be had on what's the best model.
Are you saying there is no debate that functional is the best model because that is what is going on in the hardware?
I haven't heard that point of view before.
Does Knuth's use of MIX in the AOCP mean he doesn't share that view or does it mean something else?
- nickpsecurity 11y agoI'm saying it's a path worth exploring. The research on LISP machines, synthesis, splitting of apps between CPU and FPGA's... all this showed functional approach got the job done better with less hardware and the well-known software benefits. Even the workhorse instructions of the imperative processors operate in a functional way when you look at how the processors actually work. There's so much overhead in supporting the illusion of sequential, imperative programming that it might be better spent utilizing hardware to support concurrent, functional programming more efficiently.