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["Linas Vepstas" <linasvepstas@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/5/29 Moshe Looks <holism@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> like Embeddable Common Lisp (http://ecls.sourceforge.net/) might
> support this though its dynamic FFI (overview at
> http://ecls.sourceforge.net/new-manual/ch18s02.html), including
> concurrent processing. Of course, this would chain development to ECL,

Quick remark on ECL: lack of 64-bit support, and lack of
64-bit powerpc support I think are serous setbacks.  No one
is making supercomputers from intel x86 chipsets. A number
of universities will give joe-blow-anyone free access to
64-bit machines with 8-32 gigabytes ram, and 4-16 smp
cpus. If you cozy up to others, you might be able to get free
time  on mare-nostrum or blue-gene L class machines,
with thousands of cpus.

While it still seems like years before we'll have opencog
algos that need that kind of power, I think it would be wrong
to not plan for this.

--linas