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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:19:27 +0100
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On 2015-12-28 10:57, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> 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.

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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