[GTALUG] interesting new approach to forking

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 06:12:56AM -0600, Russell Reiter wrote:
> As a language pedant or peasant, (I never know how to truly label
> myself so I usually leave that to others) I wonder what free really
> means. Free Open Source Software, looks easy enough to understand, but
> in truth what is free. Free stuff, Free radicals, Free willy; the list
> of usage and mis-usage of free is endless.
> 
> TANSTAAFL we all pay the piper in one way or another.
> 
> When word magic is so prevalent in marketing, how do you shake out the
> spin and find the stable core of logic.
> 
> IBM's VLIW Architecture exploits Instruction Level Parallelism and has
> been touted as the natural successor to RISC. However it is the manner
> in which you bundle primitive words together in ordinary day to day
> language which affects the experiential outcome of the listener.

Well intel has tried using VLIW 3 times now, and (mostly) failed 3 times.
Only seems to have ever been successful in DSP designs (hence the "mostly"
for intel, with the i860 being fairly successful in DSP use, but not as
a general purpose CPU).

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Len Sorensen