Showing posts with label post-dividend era. Show all posts
Showing posts with label post-dividend era. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Can Computers be Programmed Productively in the Post-Dividend Era?

by Rastislav Bodík, Justin Bonnar (University of California Berkeley, USA) and Doug Kimelman (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Summary of review comments:
The authors argue that programming abstractions that have lead to programmer productivity are not necessarily energy efficient. So in the context of energy constrained computing devices (i.e., when battery life is short), there must be a better way of implementing the intended computation. They outline areas of focus that they are pursuing, which can be explained as (static) specialization, direct refinement from high-level abstraction, and ML-style static languages.