Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

Post by igouy » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 4:14 PM UTC

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HiPE was done a long time ago, and I don't think it tried to use any particularly sophisticated techniques even at the time. Modern compilation techniques such as powerful escape analysis and partial evaluation may be able to do something new. GraalVM runs Ruby about 10x faster than standard Ruby, for example.

"GraalVM runs Ruby about 10x faster than standard Ruby, for example." Which puts it roughly up against the plateau I observe for dynamically-typed languages across the board, except LuaJIT (which AIUI compromises the dynamicness a bit to get there). Ruby is a great deal more than 10x slower than optimal (which is still roughly C, though keep an eye out on that as languages continue to challenge it). Based on the way…

Post by kjeetgill » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

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We barely had FB and Sonar, to just get yet another example of how badly to name projects. http://gluonhq.com/

Gluon is also a language built on Rust: https://github.com/gluon-lang/gluon

Post by rs86 » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

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The technology for the art is called Wacom Bamboo and I was overdrawing the Erlang logo with some hand scribbles in Inkscape. In fact same technology seems to be used for the original LYSE book and I was using it to translate text in images in Russian translation for the LYSE book.

For Learn You Some Erlang, I used hand-made drawings that I would scan, and then trace over using either photoshop (initially) and then Illustrator (when I knew the book would go to print).

Post by hengestone » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

Post by baobrien » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

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It's great to hear interest in this area - the more places I can run Erlang/Elixir, the more likely I am to use it even in the places it can traditionally run (it's a more useful language to me if I can use the same codebase everywhere). If you are looking to make an embedded focused VM, obviously ARM is the most useful target to run on.

Is there a platform the BEAM doesn't currently target? I'm not aware of anything that isn't completely esoteric... You can run it on ARM currently. BEAM has been in use for over 20 years in telephone systems running on insanely old and bizarre hardware. Is there a platform you have in mind besides ARM?