From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-03T08:05:31+09:00
Subject: Re: neuroimage software - scientific computing and visualization

Phil Tomson wrote:
> Here's an tantalizing idea that I'll throw out:  C is one thing and, yes, it's 
> fast.... but what if you could actually map some algorithm or math operation to 
> _hardware_ and thus get a large speed  advantage even over C?  I'm working on 
> something like this... details forthcoming.  The idea is very similar to 
> Ruby::Inline.  It will allow seamless communication between your Ruby program 
> and an FPGA board acting as hardware accelerator (these boards are available 
> for less than $200 now).

That would be very cool. Eventually, we're going to be porting a
wireless network stack to FPGA, and being able to still use Ruby would
be very nice.

What kind of code goes inside your "inline" blocks?

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