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I wonder if PG will incorporate the dataflow portions of his dissertation in a future Arc compiler?
by gills 18y ago
I wonder if PG will incorporate the dataflow portions of his dissertation in a future Arc compiler?
- ajross 18y agoComputers have changed since the 80's. A lot. Micro-optimizations at the instruction level only help code that can run out of L1 cache. Typical tasks these days (c.f. web development, both server and client) use huge data sets, and are frustratingly resistant to this kind of trick. I'm not a big fan of either scheme or arc, frankly, but pg's decision to leave the optimization to the underlying scheme interpreter sounds spot on to me.