I talk a bigger talk than I ought to.
I came to Erlang as a result of looking under the hood of . There were some bits of code that I thought looked very elegant, almost like poetry.
I suppose I fell in love.
Wings 3D does not really stretch the Erlang language or architecture; for example, it runs in a single Erlang VM on one PC. It was originally written in Erlang - it seems - as a part-time programming exercise by one of the early developers. As a starter, however, just downloading and deconstructing the code gives many good examples of how the language works.
An important point though, is that when low-level performance stuff like graphics is needed, Wings 3D calls up C libraries (like any other interpreted language). That is the same thing that will need to be done between, say, Erlang mini and the Epiphany. Even with the 64 * 128kb core Epiphany coming in 2015(?), there's no room on the chip for the Erlang base.
Cheers,
Statistics: Posted by greytery — Sat Aug 23, 2014 5:51 pm
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Got very excited for a short while there, until I saw that it was '-mini' and not '-micro'. So no Erlang on the Epiphany.
But, the ARM version for Parallella - and Pi - looks well worth a visit. The package size of 20MB sounds doable.
The key to the success of Erlang on Parallella will be getting some performant library routines (C/C++/ASM) to interface Erlang-mini to Epiphany cores.
At first glance (last year) it looked like porting the libs in the e-sdk manual wouldn't be a big stretch (for someone who knows what they're doing).
(1+ ) I can also recommend that Erlang intro. It's far better written than the grammar of the title would suggest.
The paperback version weighs (and costs) a ton, but you can read the same text on-line.
Cheers
Statistics: Posted by greytery — Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:28 pm
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