On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>wrote:
> Brad wrote: > > I've heard of Java CPUs. Has anyone implemented a Python CPU in VHDL >> or Verilog? >> > > Not that I know of. > > I've had thoughts about designing one, just for the exercise. > > It's doubtful whether such a thing would ever be of practical > use. Without as much money as Intel has to throw at CPU > development, it's likely that a Python chip would always be > slower and more expensive than an off-the-shelf CPU running > a tightly-coded interpreter. > > It could be fun to speculate on what a Python CPU might > look like, though. One with the time and inclination could probably do a Python VM in an FPGA, no? Though last I heard, FPGA's weren't expected to increase in performance as fast as general-purpose CPU's.
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