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		chris_st on Jan 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Happens to OO When Processors Are Free? (2015... Slightly related is the video game "TIS-100"[1] which has you programming (incredibly) constrained processors that are arranged in a grid, with communication between them. The programming puzzles are not very difficult (so far! I'm about halfway through) and pretty entertaining to puzzle out. There's a "meta game" of comments by "your uncle" who was trying to get it working again. I think it's closer to the GreenArrays, Inc chips, really. [1] http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

abrookewood on Jan 15, 2017 | [–]

It's a lot harder when you realise that everyone is trying to optimise for Cycle count, rather than the number of Instructions/Nodes.

agumonkey on Jan 15, 2017 | | [–]

There's a talk by moore on infoq about the ga-144. It's as exciting as a CPU talk can be.

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