RE: Supercompiled Perl

Jordan,

When a supercompiler is necessary for an ai-perl code implementation, it
seems relevant.  When talking about supercompilation development itself the
question becomes how is "perl-ai" directly involved.  In your own message
you point out it may be of great utility.  This means it may be useful and
may be relevant.

I commend Valentin's accomplishments, but think the discussion should be
taken to e-mail for those interested.

I discourage efforts to remedy the quiet with anything but perl-ai.  There
is beauty to a quiet list.  I think we've exhausted the theoretical
discussions on how supercompilation may help AI with Perl, and welcome
anyone to prove me wrong.

I would be happy enough with a quintessential general AI program that ran 20
or even a 100 times slower than optimal.  Upon completion I'm sure the beast
would rewrite itself on the fly in assembly, and dawn a new chapter in
history.  If we're ever going to get there, we've got to stick to the
subject.

I'm not a moderator or even a common contributor to Perl-AI, just a member
giving my two cents.

Regards,


David M Guzak

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Jordan Dimov [mailto:[email protected]]

  Tom,

  The discussion isn't directly related to AI with Perl, but I do think it
should be of interest to perl-ai folks.  The primary reason for this
(apart from the coolness factor) is that, as Valentin mentioned in his
earlier message, significant speed-ups may lead to changes in programming
paradigms that may very well be of great utility for AI programming.  At
some point, increases in speed tend to lead to phase transitions where
qualitatively new things become feasible.

  Besides, the list has been pretty quiet lately.  Of course we can take
perl-ai off the address list if you guys still think it's a waste of time
/ bandwidth.

  -- Jordan

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tom Fawcett wrote:

>
> Gents,
>
> This is an interesting topic but it seems unrelated to artificial
intelligence
> using Perl.  Could you take [email protected] off the replies (or explain
how
> it's relevant)?  Thanks.
>
> -Tom
>