Re: 406 Not Acceptable (was Re: "--All You Zombies--" title)

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:48:33 -0400, Mike Ash wrote:

In article <_pmdnRBwmtuIv-_XnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mimus <tinmimus99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That reminds me of something I've been mulling over for awhile, a native
C-processor . . . .

Not the libraries, of course, just the core language.

That would make your C programs pretty dam' (even more) speddy, anyway.

I doubt it. C is a *vastly* more complicated language than the machine
code that's executed by any modern CPU. All the transistors that you'd
have to dedicate to understanding C natively would be transistors that
you can't dedicate to actually executing code fast.

Note that even machine code is too complicated of a language for a
really high performance modern CPU. Such a beast will actually translate
the incoming machine code into better-performing microcode which is what
the execution units actually work with.

The current approach of compiling the C code into machine code in
software before giving it to the hardware is the high-performance option.

Hmm, OK, I can see that performance would suffer from the greater length
of text input.

I still like the idea, and if I ever design a processor it's going to be
one (this discussion has inspired some interesting thoughts about 10-, 16-
and unicode-ary flip-flops, too).

--

C: The First and Still the Best Portable AL!



RSN



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