Quote Originally Posted by lm358 View Post
See Dr Who, that's the whole problem... general purpose processors (GPP) are just too slow to adapt. Who cares about DVD playback *now*. It's 2008, let's do some Hi-Def blu-ray decoding !! Can your GPP handle that without a GFX card to help? Must we wait for a new series of instructions to get added to an already huge instruction set?

The solution is simple... tell your superiors to start releasing some chips with some efficient reconfigurable logic!! 4 cores + a good chuck of reconfigurable logic that can be dynamically configured on the fly using software for *ANY* task. How long will this take?, I'm waiting Let us make our own instructions
The concept of configurable logic defeats the purpose, because the logic needs to be literally laid out with transistors, physically. That means you decide on a spec and it's set in stone. You can't dynamically lay out transistors.