On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2008 15:49:33 -0400, Dan Upton wrote: > >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't know if it would necessarily look like the CPython VM, except >> for the decode stage (this being said without any knowledge of the >> CPython implementation, but with more than I ever thought I'd know about >> processor architecture/microarchitecture) > > Out of curiosity, do you know how easy it would be to make a Python chip > using FPGAs? I have little to no hardware knowledge, but it sounds like > a fun project in any case. Even if it's not likely to have blazing > performance, it'd be cool to load Python bytecode directly into > memory. :-) >
I don't really know, but I would guess that it's hard, or at least time-consuming. The best example I can give you is "JOP: A Java Optimized Processor" which was basically an FPGA-based chip that executed Java bytecode natively. If you're curious, you can read about it at http://www.jopdesign.com/ . It looks like it was done as a PhD thesis at the Vienna University of Technology, and unless Austria has significantly lower PhD requirements... ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list