There was a great talk about this in ASPLOS 2008, in the "Wild and crazy ideas" session. Search http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/WACI-VI/ http://cseweb.ucs

There was a great talk about this in ASPLOS 2008, in the "Wild and crazy ideas" session. Search http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/WACI-VI/ http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/WACI-VI/ for "home water heaters".