[cap-talk] Butler Lampson's upcoming talk

David-Sarah Hopwood david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk
Wed Apr 9 12:29:29 CDT 2008


Winnie Cheng wrote:
> Other promising ideas have not worked out: [...] RISC [...]

Excuse me? RISC "hasn't worked out"? I think Lampson should probably ask
some processor designers how much their current microarchitectures have
been influenced by the design philosophy of RISC.

If capabilities could "work out" as well as RISC, I'd be well pleased.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood


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