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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Compilers and efficiency
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Date: 15 Apr 91 22:07:41 GMT
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In article <2803849F.483A@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin):
>>There is, at present, no language designed to take into account the collection
>>of "natural" useful hardware which the present users can find uses for, and
>>which are far more expensive in software than in hardware.
> 
> If Herman would write be so kind as to write a spec for such a
> language, we could try to implement it.
> 
> We're waiting, Herman...

Herman, and some others, have already published a requirement spec for
the language, mostly in the "bizarre instructions" thread here quite
recently.  Of course, it would help if someone would gather it together
in a form that could be reviewed and resolve some of the contradictions.

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com