Re: Ada lacks lighterweight-than-task parallelism

[Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:51:44 -0700, Dan'l Miller wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 7:28:24 AM UTC-5, Brian Drummond wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:14:16 -0700, Dan'l Miller wrote:
>> 
>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_windows_10
>> > 
>> > As discussed in the article above, Microsoft is starting to unveil
>> > its formerly-secret development of what could be described as
>> > “Itanium done right“.
>> 
>> wait what? ... JAN GRAY?
>> 
>> (in the Further Reading section) breadcrumbs to
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.06617
> 
> Interesting insight that I will investigate further, as what you point
> out might also be useful on Altera FPGAs embedded into Intel processors,
> which might end up being a competitor to EDGE as coming years unfold. 
> (Indeed, Intel's purchase of Altera might have been the stimulus at
> Microsoft to pursue the apparent forthcoming commercialization of EDGE
> in the first place; the years would align about right).

Won't be a direct (similar tech) competitor, unless Altera are keeping 
quiet about some coarse grained replacement for the FPGA slice, like 
those little "Edge" cores.  But interesting to watch...

(Intel and Altera go way back, I think Inel was Altera's original fab 
back in the EPROM FPGA days, as well as being their "second 
source" (quite how that worked, I'm not sure :-)

-- Brian