Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.alphanet.ch!alphanet.ch!news.imp.ch!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python CPU Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:41:57 +1200 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <8vtb28F5b8U1@mid.individual.net> 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> <7xvcyvaexp.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FADXQxM0MwRttpvT3LfhQQlWUa/sBOM3oxbrqsTEPhs9BIcITW Cancel-Lock: sha1:SLyQzCNjkCYZ5JUaGZxD5D9lp9I= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <7xvcyvaexp.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:2555 Paul Rubin wrote: > 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. Hmmm... Maybe compiling Python to Forth would make sense?-) -- Greg