@Konrad Hinsen, I just watched Orion Reed’s talk , pointed out by @Christopher Shank. The talk continuously fired the same neurons in my head as does the phrase “malleable computing”. I’m not in that head-space, but, I continue to wonder if there’s a connection … (YMMV)

there is! and @Orion Reed spoke at this Malleable Computing event last week:

One part of the connection is in the title: "integration domain" (as different from "implementation domain of components").

Kell's 2009 "mythical matched modules" paper is another good one to check out: https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/research/papers/kell09mythical.pdf

Thought-provoking slide.