Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong

[Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester <wirklich@nicht.at>]

On December 28th, 2015, Dmitry A. Kazakov posted:
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|"On 2015-12-28 10:57, Georg Bauhaus wrote:                                   |
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|> Another influence of economy on source text, given no major advances       |
|> in battery technology, dynamos, generators, etc., is energy                |
|> savings. This may inspire a whole now approach to optimizations in         |
|> program translation: I imagine an aspect called "Importance".  It          |
|> lets the compiler choose instructions and orders of execution in a         |
|> way that uses resources when needed or as available.                       |
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|I doubt that will play any significant role. What must change is the methods |
|of binding. Modular, distributed, persistent data, long-living software      |
|require much more than plain linkers/loaders presently offer.                |
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|Regards,                                                                     |
|Dmitry A. Kazakov                                                            |
|  http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de  "                                            |
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Reducing energy consumption is not a novel ideal. E.g. I quote from a
review by me of Petru Eles; Krzysztof Kuchcinski; and Zebo Peng,
"System Synthesis with VHDL", Kluwer Academic Publishers (
   WWW.ACCU.org/index.php?module=bookreviews&func=search&rid=1291 
) which was published in "CVu", Volume 16, Number 2:
"[. . .]

I learnt from the low-power synthesis chapter that two's complement is
believed to consume more power than sign-magnitude due to the high
level of switching needed if a variable/signal toggles between
positive and negative often.

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With kind regards,
Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester