Does anyone in the Forth community know if Charles Moore is still with us?
"GreenArrays is shipping its 144-core asynchronous chip that needs little energy (7 pJ/inst). Idle cores use no power (100 nW). Active ones (4 mW) run fast (666 Mips), then wait for communication (idle).
Tight coding to minimize instructions executed will minimize power. The programmer can also reduce instruction fetches, transistor switching and duty cycle."
It is like the elegance of Forth in low power, multi-core hardware.
I do have to note that the linked video is from 2013 so I assume they've moved on from that.
Forth is great, but colorForth takes it one step to far.
It is very difficult to know when to not add a seemingly cool feature. Specially when you where right against most odds before.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorForth
[1] https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_wr...
The Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio was very lucrative. Eventually it ended up with a patent marketer. Nearly everyone doing processors had to buy in.
And as the inventor Chuck got his share out of it...
https://web.archive.org/web/20071226155608/http://www.linuxe...