[erlang-questions] Small Erlang VM

[Joseph Stewart]

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@REDACTED>:

> Good luck!! Who knows, maybe you will create a "picoErlang" :)
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar@REDACTED> 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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