On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:56:55 -0400, Ge Wang wrote
> On Sep 10, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:54:06 -0400, Ge Wang wrote
> >>>> Something I'd like to research is changing code on the machine level
> >>>> live.
> >>
> >> Perry and I are doing this with ChucK.
> >>
> >> http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
> >>
> >> ChucK runs on a VM with special virtual instructions (many for
> >> dealing with time), and is type-checked and compiled down to these
> >> instructions.
> >
> > If you're programming a high level language that is compiled into
> > bytecode,
> > thats not what I'm talking about - that still seperates the actual
> > running
> > processes from the coder (with a write/compile cycle).
>
> The idea is that you can program ChucK virtual instructions
> directly. In the "Turing Machine" sense, the virtual instructions
> are identical to native machine code, but have the added benefit of
> being run in a controllable environment (VM).
ah, all the documentation I'd read looked like a high level scripting language
- I haven't seen the machine instructions.
so the question is - how much would it cost to convert these sorts of systems
into hardware? :)
cheers,
dave
Received on Fri Sep 10 2004 - 15:43:09 BST