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Joseph Stewart | 5 Jul 19:07

Re: Small Erlang VM

Don't know if this helps, but there's a project leveraging the concurrency in the Occam-pi language by running a transputer interpreter on the Lego Mindstorm NXT and RCX(!!).

More details at:

http://www.transterpreter.org/

I'm a fairly new follower of this mailing list. Has the topic of transputers come up before? My understanding of the transputer architecture (and by consequence the transterpreter) is that it's stack-based rather than register-based... so performance may suffer compared to the Erlang VM.

-joe

If it ain't broke, break it. How else are you going to figure out how it works?

2008/7/3 Edwin Fine <erlang-questions_efine <at> usa.net>:
Good luck!! Who knows, maybe you will create a "picoErlang" :)


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar <at> cs.elte.hu> wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:52 -0400, Edwin Fine wrote:
> I understand why you would want to use Erlang, but instead of writing
> an entire interpreter with all the complexity that entails, would you
> consider using another language that is very good in extremely
> resource-restricted environments? FORTH comes to mind. If you just
> want to Get Things Done, that is;

I don't think so. For example I'm working on a controlling application
which could probably run on the weakest possible hardware, but would be
a great struggle to implement in any sequential programming language
(because I need the various timers and complex scheduling of action and
handing of events).

For these kinds of tasks, Erlang fits extremely well. I think a
lightweight version of the erlang emulator could find a lot of
applications in this area.

Best regards,
Alpar





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<p>Don't know if this helps, but there's a project leveraging the concurrency in the Occam-pi language by running a transputer interpreter on the Lego Mindstorm NXT and RCX(!!).<br><br>More details at:<br><br><a href="http://www.transterpreter.org/">http://www.transterpreter.org/</a><br><br>I'm a fairly new follower of this mailing list. Has the topic of transputers come up before? My understanding of the transputer architecture (and by consequence the transterpreter) is that it's stack-based rather than register-based... so performance may suffer compared to the Erlang VM.<br><br>-joe<br><br clear="all">If it ain't broke, break it. How else are you going to figure out how it works?
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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/3 Edwin Fine &lt;<a href="mailto:erlang-questions_efine <at> usa.net">erlang-questions_efine <at> usa.net</a>&gt;:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote">
Good luck!! Who knows, maybe you will create a "picoErlang" :)<div class="Ih2E3d">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Alp&aacute;r J&uuml;ttner &lt;<a href="mailto:alpar <at> cs.elte.hu" target="_blank">alpar <at> cs.elte.hu</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote">
<div>On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:52 -0400, Edwin Fine wrote:<br>
&gt; I understand why you would want to use Erlang, but instead of writing<br>
&gt; an entire interpreter with all the complexity that entails, would you<br>
&gt; consider using another language that is very good in extremely<br>
&gt; resource-restricted environments? FORTH comes to mind. If you just<br>
&gt; want to Get Things Done, that is;<br><br>
</div>I don't think so. For example I'm working on a controlling application<br>
which could probably run on the weakest possible hardware, but would be<br>
a great struggle to implement in any sequential programming language<br>
(because I need the various timers and complex scheduling of action and<br>
handing of events).<br><br>
For these kinds of tasks, Erlang fits extremely well. I think a<br>
lightweight version of the erlang emulator could find a lot of<br>
applications in this area.<br><br>
Best regards,<br>
Alpar<br><br><br>
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