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New Intermediate Language Proposed

Posted by michael on from the real-men-write-in-assembly dept.

WillOutPower writes "Sun is inviting Cray (of supercomputer fame) and IBM (needs no introduction...) to join and create a new intermediate run-time language for high-performance computing. Java's bytecode, Java Grande, and Microsoft's IL language for the Common Language Runtime, it seems a natural progression. I wonder if the format will be in XML? Does this mean ubiquitous grid computing? Maybe now I won't have to write my neural network in C for performance :-)"

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  1. XML ? by noselasd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did I see XML and performance in the same sentence ?! ... brain overload.. does not make sense...

    1. Re:XML ? by benjamindees · · Score: 5, Funny

      I saw that too.
      Then I saw Posted by michael and everything was better.

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    2. Re:XML ? by mabinogi · · Score: 3, Funny

      That may be true, but XML would be a great way to bring them back!

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  2. but the biggest question is... by b17bmbr · · Score: 4, Funny

    The effort is part of a government-sponsored program under which the three companies are competing to design a petascale-class computer by 2010.

    will sun survive until then?

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