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Len Bullard writes: > Imagine a processor per language. Gack! Yes, Gack, as you put it. Now imagine a processor that's good at character and string manipulation, table lookup scanning, buffer manipulation, substitution, etc. and you might have something that would do well on lots of languages, XML included. A better investment than more general purpose processing cores? I have no clue at this point. I should say, I've personally never been a fan of special purpose hardware, except when either its peak or average utilization is likely to be very high (as seems to be the case with graphics chips, ethernet chips, and the like). It won't surprise me a bit if, even if XML processing is offloaded, that the offload is to general purpose cores. I'm just pointing out that the equation is changing as the relative rate of change in clock speed vs. transistor count starts to favor the latter. There will be increasing incentives to learn to do work in parallel as opposed to sequentially. Anyway, this discussion has probably gone past the point of being of interest to a crowd that gathers here mainly to discuss XML. I'm happy to wrap it up around now. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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