Is there any hardware designed to just run cellular automata?
I wonder if it could actually be a very efficient form of calculation, because cells are almost bits, but seem to possess more power than bits. For instance this Lisp in GoL. Could it run faster than lisps on "bit processors" if it ran on special purpose hardware?
So instead of 64-bit processors we might have "64-cell processors" ?
I wonder if it could actually be a very efficient form of calculation, because cells are almost bits, but seem to possess more power than bits. For instance this Lisp in GoL. Could it run faster than lisps on "bit processors" if it ran on special purpose hardware?
So instead of 64-bit processors we might have "64-cell processors" ?