I also really liked the article and found it thought provoking. This is all way above my pay grade but I like to think that there is a more optimal cpu design a

I also really liked the article and found it thought provoking. This is all way above my pay grade but I like to think that there is a more optimal cpu design and language pairing that we will eventually reach and it's fun to imagine what that might look like. Obviously, it would be very hard to shift the incumbent model in reality. We just have to look at the lack of prosperity for the Itanium and Cell processors to see how hard it is to achieve success. But imagine if new computer languages had been created just for these processors. Commercially this would make little sense but it might be possible to create languages that fully used these processors yet retained simplicity for developers. Or maybe it isn't possible to beat the clarity of sequential instructions for human developers or maybe Out Of Order processing is the optimal algorithm. There are other changes coming too such as various replacements for DRAM that either integrate more closely with the CPU (such as 3d chips) [1,2] that by reducing the latency of main memory, could actually bring us back closer to the C model of the computer? or just change computing entirely... [1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/252007-mit-announces-breakthrough-3d-chips-integrate-memory-cpu https://www.extremetech.com/computing/252007-mit-announces-b... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16894818