Re: Numbers, Machine and Father Ted

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:58:57 -0700

Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
>
> 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

Or why run it at all. Platonia is timeless, so the "generation" of programs exists timelessly as an abstract process. The ordering is implicit, not temporal.

Brent Meeker

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