[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Apr 23 10:02:01 CDT 2004


On Apr 23, 2004, at 10:26 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>>> OO is at fault a lot of the time, I think. All mainstream computer
>>>> processors are purely procedural in nature, not object-oriented...OO
>>>> code
>>>> just doesn't map to these processors all that well.
>>>
>>> Not entirely fair. I mostly got interested in OOP when I could see 
>>> the
>>> relationship between the code and the raw hardware.
>>
>>   Eh...I'd sure like to hear more about this.  Especially something
>> like, what instruction on a SPARC, for example, is involved in
>> "new"-ing an object. ;)
>
> Bah.
>
> We need to revive the ixp432 as an FPGA project.

   iAPX432.  Yes.  That would be all sorts of cool.

        -Dave

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