Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!auth.brown.octanews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python CPU References: <01bd055b-631d-45f0-90a7-229da4a9a362@t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <8vps7tF9vuU1@mid.individual.net> <4d97f125$0$29992$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4d981eb5$0$10581$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:59:14 -0700 Message-ID: <7xvcyvaexp.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Organization: Nightsong/Fort GNOX User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Fu4h5OULLsZFuHXzkigbdA52+zE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Apr 2011 03:59:15 CDT X-Complaints-To: abuse@octanews.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:2515 John Nagle writes: > The Forth chips were cute, and got more done with fewer gates than > almost anything else. But that didn't matter for long. > Willow Garage has a custom Forth chip they use in their Ethernet > cameras, but it's really a FPGA. You can order 144-core Forth chips right now, http://greenarrays.com/home/products/index.html They are asynchronous cores running at around 700 mhz, so you get an astounding amount of raw compute power per watt and per dollar. But for me at least, it's not that easy to figure out applications where their weird architecture fits well.