> He said "We need a real bytecode for the web That's what I was talking about, too. Since processors have essentially plateaued in performance improvements by

> He said "We need a real bytecode for the web That's what I was talking about, too. Since processors have essentially plateaued in performance improvements by increasing raw clock speed, the only growth options going forward are wider designs – increasingly unorthodox features (e.g. hardware-assisted TM) for which there is no historical precedent. I'm further hinting that no matter what utterly ideal format we pick, not 40 years from now.. perhaps not 10, perhaps not even 36 months time, some market participant will drop an architectural feature that completely obliterates contemporary thinking about what such an ideal format should look like. And once again we're back to x86-level cleanliness. So why take the penalty of a brand new mostly incompatible design when non-delusional incremental improvements would have got us there anyway.. > The bitcode you're referring to is LLVM. It's an architecture-independent assembly that can be used to target most major real ISAs http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/43769 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/4376...