The C stands for Cthulhu
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
"C Is Not a Low-level Language:
Your computer is not a fast PDP-11"
"Hey let's make a parallel hardware machine and then expose its parallelism as insanely complicated compiler transformations of a 1970-era serial machine and THEN on top of THAT fake serial machine, build parallel systems that have to implement THEIR parallelism through insanely complicated compiler transforms down to that fake serial machine."
"Ok, but ALSO, let's take all those parallel hardware machines and gigabytes of operating system stack and implement THOSE as completely fake machines!"
@natecull I wonder how many MIPS cores we could fit on, say, an i7 die, and how fast they could be driven in cycle times? I bet 64 separately threadable cores, 20GHz, 64 bit MIPS.
