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Re: Java processors

From Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Java processors
Date 2012-07-08 11:57 -0700
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Roedy Green wrote:
> Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>> How would these guys "unburn" the gates - reprogram them to a different
>> configuration?
>
> they would not.  Presumably these things would be so cheap that you
> would just replace a bank that had too many pieces of abandoned code,
> and repack them onto a fresh bank, like the way the Replicator repacks
> zips when they get too full of junk.  If there were sufficiently
> dense, e.g. some sort of 3D array, you might just keep everything.
>
> Also somebody might invent an erasable array, where you don't
> literally burn, just program.
>
> I hope somebody does this in the lab no matter how impractical just to
> find out the order of magnitude efficiency improvement that could be
> had.

The reason I ask is that the HotSpot compiler works by compiling and 
uncompiling sections of code many times as program dynamics dictate.

Write-once mechanisms will need huge capacity to handle the myriads of 
abandoned code fragments. Also, the compilation is occurring during program 
execution, so they'd also have to be write-extremely-fucking-fast, or WEFF.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Java processors bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-07-05 08:01 -0700
  Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-05 11:28 -0400
    Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-05 13:00 -0500
      Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-05 14:31 -0400
        Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-05 16:42 -0500
        Re: Java processors Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-05 20:30 -0400
          Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-05 21:12 -0500
          Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-06 00:13 -0400
            Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 13:26 -0700
              Re: Java processors Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-06 13:50 -0700
                Re: Java processors Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 14:17 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 19:07 -0700
                Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-07 09:34 -0500
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-07 21:01 -0700
                Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-08 00:28 -0500
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-07 23:00 -0700
                Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-08 10:20 -0500
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-08 09:16 -0700
                Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-08 17:46 +0000
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-08 11:52 -0700
                Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-08 21:41 +0000
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-08 17:56 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 19:44 -0700
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-09 23:41 -0700
                Re: Java processors David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-07-16 13:22 -0400
                Re: Java processors Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-16 14:03 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 19:42 -0700
                Re: Java processors Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-10 01:13 +0200
                Re: Java processors Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-09 16:26 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-11 15:41 -0700
                Re: Java processors Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-12 01:02 +0200
                Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-21 18:46 +0200
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-21 13:05 -0400
                Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-21 19:23 +0200
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-21 14:10 -0400
                Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-23 01:17 +0200
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-22 20:15 -0400
                Re: Java processors Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-22 15:13 +0200
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 19:03 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 19:51 -0700
              Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-07 21:17 -0700
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-07 23:04 -0700
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-08 09:29 -0700
                Re: Java processors Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-07-08 11:57 -0700
            Re: Java processors Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-07-08 15:40 +0200
              Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-08 10:36 -0500
          Re: Java processors Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 11:31 -0700
      Re: Java processors Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-07-05 13:02 -0600
        Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-05 16:09 -0500
        Re: Java processors Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-07-06 01:29 +0200
          Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-06 00:42 +0000
            Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 13:53 -0700
              Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-06 21:18 +0000
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-06 18:17 -0400
                Re: Java processors Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-07-06 22:29 +0000
                Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 19:10 -0700
                Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-07 09:42 -0500
                Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-07 10:58 -0400
                (OT) Was: Re: Java processors Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-07-07 11:38 -0400
                Re: (OT) Was: Re: Java processors Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-07 21:19 -0700
                Re: (OT) Was: Re: Java processors "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-07-08 12:15 +0200
                Re: Java processors Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-07 21:17 -0700
          Re: Java processors Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-07-05 19:14 -0600
        Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 13:34 -0700
          Re: Java processors Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-07-06 23:04 +0200
            Re: Java processors Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-07-07 00:13 +0200
              Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 19:16 -0700
                Re: Java processors "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-07-08 11:37 +0200
      Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 13:24 -0700
        Re: Java processors BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-07 10:06 -0500
  Re: Java processors Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-06 05:22 -0700

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