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77 lines
2.4 KiB
77 lines
2.4 KiB
18 years ago
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ABI spec file
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- ABI converter program?
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File load
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- properly malloc area and do a block read when loading a file
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- allow for multiple code areas to be loaded
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- implement mechanism for checking validity of program counter
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against multiple code areas, with fast case where within the same
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area as the last check.
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- implement function to load new file, from within lightscript
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- implement function to unload file / code area, from within lightscript
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Thread control
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- implement mechanism to kill threads from within lightscript
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- implement mechanism to enumerate running threads
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- implement mechanism to get a thread ID when spawning a thread
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- implement mechanism for a thread to get its own ID
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Language features
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- some kind of thread scope storage, other than function-local variables
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- possibly a heap of some sort
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- some kind of inter-thread communication which doesn't rely on global
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variables and wait channels. Possibly some kind of queue implementation,
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perhaps tied to thread ID.
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- perhaps consider some kind of object-oriented features?
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- possibly, model objects as threads. consider some mechanism for making
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"method calls" - ie directing a thread to execute a function. This could
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be as simple as a queue and dispatcher model.
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- improved and better defined syntax and semantics
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- arrays
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Compiler features
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- better type analysis
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- intermediate code
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- attributes on nodes to hold information such as type information
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- data flow analysis
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- liveness analysis
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- optimisation
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- better code generation
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- simplify code generator
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Interpreter
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- command console
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- ability to launch threads
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- ability to issue commands
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- Priorities
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- Pre-emptive scheduling
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- Locking/synchronisation primitives
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Debugger
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- breakpoints
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- watchpoints
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- single-step
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- concurrency model
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Future pipedreams
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- implement plugins as .so
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- sufficiently generic DMX API to allow arbitrary DMX hardware
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- generic DSP engine configurable from within lightscript
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Library functions
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- implement common patterns as library functions
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- show manager
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- chasers
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- cuesheet
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- moving light effects
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- disco system
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- mood selector
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- lighting console I/O and menus
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- generic fixture control
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IDE
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- drag and drop objects to create shows using standard library functions
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- integrated editor
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- integrated compile and load into interpreter
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- create a simple show in 5 minutes
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