Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

youtube.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 162 posts

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

#51

Post by swores »

speed_spread wrote: post #18
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why 74xx parts, other than nostalgia for an era that was over decades before he was born? If it's about building physical things rather than virtual things, consider Lego Mindstorms controllers; you can build digital logic in them using Scratch...and graduate to Python when he gets frustrated with the limitations. And there's tons of Minecraft-themed Lego contraptions, he could theoretically use Mindstorms logic, lig…

Talk about gatekeeping...

And yet you're talking about it despite replying to someone who clearly wasn't gatekeeping. They were offering suggestions.

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

#52

Post by moffkalast »

jl6 wrote: post #50
MauranKilom wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn't load the real Minecraft on it, but they implemented their own version. But that version still has true 3D graphics, several block types, an inventory, mining, crafting, etc.

And if that version has redstone, then we know what needs to happen next.

It's redstone all the way down.

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

#56

Post by lifthrasiir »

acchow wrote: post #49
Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

> Before MCHPRS optimizing redstone performance using compiler techniques was not thought to be possible. They created a virtual machine with a custom instruction set. Why wouldn't an optimized JIT work?

To my knowledge, MCHPRS is not a full Minecraft server implementation; it only contains just enough subset of the game to run redstone circuits. The upside is that this subset can be run a lot faster than the full game server.

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

#57

Post by causality0 »

Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

With MCHPRS the demo takes 9 hours to run, it would take decades using Minecraft.

Ok, to clarify, is MCHPRS a functioning Minecraft Server that can support a player logging in and mining? This story is seeming a lot more like "A 1Hz CPU made on something that has mechanical similarities to Minecraft".

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

#58

Post by [deleted] »

causality0 wrote: post #57
Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

With MCHPRS the demo takes 9 hours to run, it would take decades using Minecraft. Ok, to clarify, is MCHPRS a functioning Minecraft Server that can support a player logging in and mining? This story is seeming a lot more like "A 1Hz CPU made on something that has mechanical similarities to Minecraft".

[deleted]

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

#59

Post by [deleted] »

causality0 wrote: post #57
Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

With MCHPRS the demo takes 9 hours to run, it would take decades using Minecraft. Ok, to clarify, is MCHPRS a functioning Minecraft Server that can support a player logging in and mining? This story is seeming a lot more like "A 1Hz CPU made on something that has mechanical similarities to Minecraft".

[deleted]

Re: 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

#60

Post by [deleted] »

acchow wrote: post #49
Comevius wrote: post #39

Pretty cool. The program itself was written in an existing intermediate language called URCL, which was then compiled to CHUNGUS2 assembly. CHUNGUS2 is the processor made with Minecraft's redstone mechanics. The processor was emulated for development, but the demo is running on MCHPRS, a Minecraft server that uses Wasmtime's Cranelift to JIT the redstone operations, which are represented as a weighted directed graph.…

> Before MCHPRS optimizing redstone performance using compiler techniques was not thought to be possible. They created a virtual machine with a custom instruction set. Why wouldn't an optimized JIT work?

[deleted]
Post reply on HN