Erlang/OTP and SDL

[Serge Aleynikov]

Matthias,

Do you think you could release the MTP-2 Erlang implementation to the 
Erlang community?  Perhaps, this way people could review possible 
reasons for performance loss, and come up with reasonable suggestions.

Serge

Matthias Lang wrote:

> 
>  Eranga> How good is the SDL support in Erlang? Are there any tools 
>  Eranga> that can generate Erlang code from a SDL spec?
> 
>  Ulf> In general, one can say that it's entirely straightforward
>  Ulf> to generate Erlang from SDL
> 
> Just as an example: MTP-2 is defined in about 50 pages of SDL
> diagrams. Without knowing anything about MTP-2, I "brainlessly"
> translated it into Erlang. By "brainlessly", I mean I used a process
> whenever SDL had a process, sent a message whenever SDL sent a message
> and sat in receive whenever SDL wanted me to wait for a message.
> 
> The result was just over 2000 lines of Erlang code. While doing that,
> I found two bugs in the SDL in the MTP-2 standard, both of which have
> been corrected in a later version. The Erlang code was hopelessly
> slow, but that was OK: the goal was to build a reference
> implementation to test the real (hardware-accelerated) implementation
> against. 
> 
> I didn't use any tools.
> 
> Matthias