RE: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

From: Stathis Papaioannou <stathispapaioannou.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:46:05 +1000

Bruno Marchal writes:

> The UD is both massively parallel
> and massively sequential. Recall the UD generates all programs and
> executes them all together, but one step at a time. The "D" is for
> dovetailing which is a technic for emulating parallelism sequentially.

Given that no actual physical hardware is needed to run it, why did
you choose the UD to generate all the computations rather than just
saying they are all run in parallel. There is enough room in Platonia
for infinite parallel virtual machines, isn't there?

Stathis Papaioannou
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