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IC
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Tue, 27 May 1997 19:14:45 GMT
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Randy Sargent <rsargent@newtonlabsSPAMLESS.com>
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> Hi,
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> I'm considering to buy IC 3.1. But when I looked at it's features I fount
> two nice things to be missing:
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> 1. A build in assembler to create the .icb files
> 2. An option to compile C code instead of interpreting it.
> ...
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> I think this 2 features would make IC far more powerfull.. or an I wrong??
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> Greetz,
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> Bastiaan
Hi Bastiaan,
We're working on an integrated .icb file generator for IC. Look for this
in the next rev (free upgrade to those who have bought IC 3.1).
As for "interpreting" C code -- actually, we do in fact compile C, but we
compile it to a byte code. This is much more efficient than a traditional
interpreter. Byte code also makes it very efficient to multitask
(essentially no overhead).
My experience running the MIT LEGO contest for several years is that people
run out of code space before they run out of processing time. Byte code
typically does use space more efficiently than does machine code.
-- Randy
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Randy Sargent Newton Research Labs
Senior Design Engineer Robotic Systems and Software
rsargent@newtonlabs.com http://www.newtonlabs.com/
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