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Some things have been tried; some things continue to be tried.

- Naylor and Runciman (2007) ”The Reduceron: Widening the von Neumann Bottleneck for Graph Reduction using an FPGA”: https://mn416.github.io/reduceron-project/reduceron.pdf

- Burrows (2009) “A combinator processor”: https://q4.github.io/dissertations/eb379.pdf

- Ramsay and Stewart (2023) “Heron: Modern Hardware Graph Reduction”: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652561.3652564

- Nicklisch-Franken and Feizerakhmanov (2024) “Massimult: A Novel Parallel CPU Architecture Based on Combinator Reduction”: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02765v1

- Xie, Ramsay, Stewart, and Loidl (2025) “From Haskell to a New Structured Combinator Processor” (KappaMutor): https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-99751-8_...

More: https://haflang.github.io/history.html



Wow! Thanks! It was a half a thought but that interaction is right up there with "the big red button" and makes the last 20 years of enshitification all worth while!




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