[libre-riscv-dev] The libre hardware revolution was postponed due to mailing list issues

[Hendrik Boom]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 09:03:51PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 7:08 PM Scheming Pony
> <scheming-pony at protonmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > My name is Stewart Milberger.  I had an off-list discussion with Luke. He has helped me extract some of my relevant experience from a sea of bad puns:
> 
> long may they continue.
> 
> thanks for saying hi to everyone, stewart.
> 
> > Luke thought this general background might be relevant to your Mesa subtask.
> 
> the involvement that you've had with 3D means that at least it won't
> majorly freak you out, plus, given the breadth of the work you've
> done, that spells "adaptability".
> 
> > One of the ideas I mentioned to Luke was the concept of a Lisp coprocessor in silicon.
> 
> this i did find particularly cool, given that lisp is basically
> byte-code interpreted.

Yes.  The Scheme I use is racket, and it's byte-code interpreted.
Though they are now putting Racket on top or Chez Scheme.  I don't
know if Chez copiles to machine code.

-- hendrik