On Saturday 16 July 2011 21:54:33 erik quanstrom wrote: > it's interesting you bring this up. risc has largely been removed > from architectures. if you tie the instruction set and machine model > to the actual hardware, then you need to write new compilers and > recompile everything every few years. instead, the risc is hidden > and the instruction set stays the same. this allows for a lot of > under-the-hood innovation in isolation from the architecture.
interesting angle. till now i believed it's easier to innovate in software (even compilers) than in silicon. where did we go wrong that silicon became the easier way? would it be fair to blame GCC and other heavyweight champions? -- dexen deVries > (...) I never use more than 800Mb of RAM. I am running Linux, > a browser and a terminal. rjbond3rd in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692529
