From the abstracts and conclusions, I'll summarize a few main points that I got from this: 1. The functional CPU is implemented in an FPGA (a type of programma

From the abstracts and conclusions, I'll summarize a few main points that I got from this: 1. The functional CPU is implemented in an FPGA (a type of programmable chip) at 96Mhz 2. It performed about 25% as fast as a Core 2 Duo clocked at 3Ghz, which, while slow, is an order of magnitude better than procedural implementations on FPGAs 3. It took advantage of significant parallelism on the circuit level which is not available to modern processors It seems that if some effort went into perfecting these chips as we do with procedural chips, we could see vast performance increases. Maybe they could be implemented as an additional unit on the computer to take advantage of functional programs.