A crazy thought
I've been toying with the idea of implementing high-level software, completely in hardware.
Like, what an actual custom silicon implementation of, say, Pleroma, would look like?
@drq like single microchip :)
in hardware such tasks nowadays are solved in dedicated chips and voila.
in hardware such tasks nowadays are solved in dedicated chips and voila.
@iron_bug I doubt it. Pleroma does a lot of stuff. And, considering we don't have an OS (remember, we're doing _everything_ in silicon) - we'll have to reimplement all the necessary stack from top-down.
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@drq you'll probably just end up reinventing the wheels of usual programming languages, so the only sensible way to do this is a backend for a compiler (gcc, llvm) that produces something like verilog instead of assembly(probably exists already), and recompiling all the software... and then spend a lifetime optimizing the backend...
@iron_bug @drq @namark there is compilers that provide verilog or specialized HDL for certain FPGA and that allows to do many things. there're also a built-in software-based controllers that can be embedded in FPGA and micro-OSes that allow to treat it like in a CPU way,
