this approach is not new, and has been toyed around since the 1960 (!), see G. Estrin's work on adaptive architectures for example. i got to know about this as

this approach is not new, and has been toyed around since the 1960 (!), see G. Estrin's work on adaptive architectures for example. i got to know about this as part of PRISM (processor reconfiguration through-instruction set metamorphosis) work in the early 90's. there is a very cool paper by the same name. check it out ! ps : PRISM Paper (http://class.ece.iastate.edu/tyagi/cpre583/documents/prism.pdf http://class.ece.iastate.edu/tyagi/cpre583/documents/prism.p...)