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Hi,

Now that the debate with Chris M. Thomasson
has culminated in questions of elasticity,
I suggest this homework:

- Game Engine in WebGPU
It will support the life cycle of sprites,
like sprites comming out of nowhere,
and being destroyed by arms,
just like in Space invader.

This would be surely a fantastic exercise,
to see what a GPU can do and cannot do,
in respect of life cycle of threads, especially

modern GPUs that sell the CUDA dream.

Have Fun!

Become a nosomatic AI chirurgeon.

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

A nosomatic AI chirurgeon is a halfling student
of sickness, and a master of the ebb and flow of
the energies of life and death of data packets.

He is a air bender, water bender and earth bender
in one person, using OpenVINO to juggle with
CPU, GPU and NPU.

Last but not least he can freely switch between
symbolic and neural representation of knowledge
forms, there is no abyss for him.

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

The nature of time has puzzled people -- from the ancient
Greeks to the present day -- Especially the nosomatic
perception of time is a hot topic now.

How does time evolve inside a GPU with multiple units
or a CPU with multiple cores. GPUs even having multiple
logical threads inside a group.

Forget the von Neumann model of computing. You need
a total new thinking of shared memory and more
message passing, and have a grip of vector and

matrix tiling of problems. -C-WAM already deploys
logic tiling in its Seven Eleven demonstrator. So forget
everything you have learned in your BASIC computer

course for your Sputnik Commodore C64 with 8088.

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Hyperspectral measurements for inter-calibration,
reached a significant milestone this summer.

The naval observatory only uses fidget spinners
to measure time, so forget Colorado.

Bye

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

So, there's at least three accounts of what can define

"measurement of

time", in the micro, meso, and macro.

Then these days pretty much the world relies on "the naval

observatory

in Colorado" if not so much "the clock tower in Greenwich", as with
regards to ye olde UTC, CUT, "Zulu", and so on, time.

About relativity theory and "measuring rods and clocks", then, it's
similar that "metric and norm" for "length and distance" also has
about the Planckian what are "iota-values" as it would be, or, "Pauli >>> -a> Plancks", or "Dirac's Pauli Plancks", of measuring space, vis-a-vis, >>> -a> measuring time.


So, there are at least three accounts of what defines measuring time, >>> -a> and at least three accounts of what defines measuring space.


Then, since relativity theory is defined by what does that,
it has the various ways, to so fulfill doing that.


Yeah, I know, most "professional physicists" only have one of those
on their little note-card with which they passed graduate school.

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Ross Finlayson schrieb:

Or shaves pennies.

X-Machines Virtual Machine (XVMrao) is a neurosymbolic virtual AI >>>> -a>>> processor which combines neural processes with symbolic reasoning. >>>> -a>>> https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-6luxq22pgmehe

Cost/hour: $200,000.00

LoL

Bye

P.S.: If it could do some quant trading magic, one would
possibly pay so much. But Logtalk is simply too lame:

Version release notes
XVM Engine v10.2.4 is the full engine capable of running
all XVM and Logtalk programs, excluding for logtalk tools.

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

The 9122171.18175435 is a little offending, what if one
keeps a federal secret after the 6 fraction digit?

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Ok, leaving the beaten path of my Prolog system
probing, and look at some newer beast.

This looks bad:

?- format('~6f', [pi**14]), nl.
9122171.18175435

Expected result:

?- format('~6f', [pi**14]), nl.
9122171.181754

Bye

BTW: Tested using this test tester:

X-Machines Virtual Machine (XVMrao) is a neurosymbolic virtual AI >>>>>> processor which combines neural processes with symbolic reasoning. >>>>>> https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-6luxq22pgmehe

Mild Shock schrieb:

See also:
https://prolog-lang.org/ImprovementsForum/0110-format.html

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Hi,

I've also added comp.theory so Mild Shock can comment.

that has different
* sizeof ( void * ), and
* sizeof ( void (*)( void ) ),

Could indicate a data RAM and code ROM model.
Which has then the advantage of:

Modern operating systems like Windows 11
enforce strict Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
(or NX/XD bit security features) to prevent
malicious programs from injecting and executing
code inside data-only memory regions. https://root-nation.com/en/soft-en/lifehacks/en-dep-windows-all-about/

I adopted data RAM and code ROM model for
pi-WAM from Hack, which has the same separation:

Slide 58, Hack Computer https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_fxYmmRNXTkAzmZ6YMoX9NXZIRVCKiw/view

But my motivation was not Johnny Depp prevention.
Rather the caching of GPUs. Because WGSL
allows storage annotations read_write and

read. I use read_write for the data RAM
of my Hack VM variant, and read for the
code ROM of my Hack VM variant. You can

see that here, its open source:

@group(0) @binding(0) var<storage, read> code: array<i32>;
@group(0) @binding(1) var<storage, read_write> state: array<i32>;

11.4 Giga Lips with a Budget Laptop https://github.com/Jean-Luc-Picard-2021/gigabudget

Hope this Helps!

Bye

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson schrieb:

On 03/08/2026 6:28 PM, David Brown wrote:

On 03/08/2026 11:41, Richard Harnden wrote:

On 03/08/2026 09:16, David Brown wrote:

On most targets, function pointers are the same size as void*

pointers. But there are exceptions, with some small microcontrollers and
DSPs having different kinds of pointers with different sizes, depending
on the memory space involved. I have yet to see a situation where there
was any reason for storing a function address in a "void*" rather than a
more appropriate typedef, such as :

typedef void (*FVoid)(void);

dlsym requires that pointer-to-function is compatible with a void*

As I say, I have yet to see a situation where using void* for

function pointers was more appropriate than using a function pointer
type. If the OS system calls or standard OS libraries makes it a
requirement that function pointers are converted to or from void* for
some calls, then of course you need to follow those requirements - it's
the people who designed the interfaces that made questionable design
choices.

Nope, you're wrong. You're dead wrong. The world isn't built on C,
even though here in comp.lang.c we like to pretend it is.

Several language environments allow function generation on the fly,
these functions need to be garbage collected. Common Lisp is an
example, therefore comp.lang.lisp is added to this discussion.

I've also added comp.theory so Mild Shock can comment.

You will have to go out of your way to make a computer architecture incompatible with garbage collected and heap allocated binary code, something I've been told SBCL does internally [1] to create an archi- tecture that has different

* sizeof ( void * ), and
* sizeof ( void (*)( void ) ),

and when you do that, I'll just claim you're making a /malicious
computer architecture/ and refuse to use it.

[1] I've not looked at the code, but told the garbage collector can
and will at least move the code around, if not collect it.

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Hi,

Well there are two viewpoint, the "client"
of the GPU, which is the CPU, and the "server"
of the GPU, which is the command processor

queue of the GPU device. So basically as
a CPU client I can write the memory area,
that is later mapped to my GPU code storage.

And this way have a compiler, even written
in Prolog, that compiles pi-WAM to my Hack VM,
that can then be then deployed to GPU.

You could also try the same with a Tiny
LISP VM. And a grown up LISP to act as
the compiler. Would be a similar exercise.

Have Fun!

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

I've also added comp.theory so Mild Shock can comment.

that has different
*-a sizeof ( void * ), and
*-a sizeof ( void (*)( void ) ),

Could indicate a data RAM and code ROM model.
Which has then the advantage of:

Modern operating systems like Windows 11
enforce strict Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
(or NX/XD bit security features) to prevent
malicious programs from injecting and executing
code inside data-only memory regions. https://root-nation.com/en/soft-en/lifehacks/en-dep-windows-all-about/

I adopted data RAM and code ROM model for
pi-WAM from Hack, which has the same separation:

Slide 58, Hack Computer https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_fxYmmRNXTkAzmZ6YMoX9NXZIRVCKiw/view

But my motivation was not Johnny Depp prevention.
Rather the caching of GPUs. Because WGSL
allows storage annotations read_write and

read. I use read_write for the data RAM
of my Hack VM variant, and read for the
code ROM of my Hack VM variant. You can

see that here, its open source:

@group(0) @binding(0) var<storage, read> code: array<i32>;
@group(0) @binding(1) var<storage, read_write> state: array<i32>;

11.4 Giga Lips with a Budget Laptop https://github.com/Jean-Luc-Picard-2021/gigabudget

Hope this Helps!

Bye

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson schrieb:

On 03/08/2026 6:28 PM, David Brown wrote:

On 03/08/2026 11:41, Richard Harnden wrote:

On 03/08/2026 09:16, David Brown wrote:

On most targets, function pointers are the same size as void* pointers. But there are exceptions, with some small microcontrollers and DSPs having different kinds of pointers with different sizes, depending

on the memory space involved.-a I have yet to see a situation where there was any reason for storing a function address in a "void*" rather than a more appropriate typedef, such as :

-a-a-a-a-a typedef void (*FVoid)(void);

dlsym requires that pointer-to-function is compatible with a void*

As I say, I have yet to see a situation where using void* for

function pointers was more appropriate than using a function pointer
type.-a If the OS system calls or standard OS libraries makes it a requirement that function pointers are converted to or from void* for
some calls, then of course you need to follow those requirements - it's
the people who designed the interfaces that made questionable design choices.

Nope, you're wrong.-a You're dead wrong.-a The world isn't built on C, even though here in comp.lang.c we like to pretend it is.

Several language environments allow function generation on the fly,
these functions need to be garbage collected.-a Common Lisp is an
example, therefore comp.lang.lisp is added to this discussion.

I've also added comp.theory so Mild Shock can comment.

You will have to go out of your way to make a computer architecture incompatible with garbage collected and heap allocated binary code, something I've been told SBCL does internally [1] to create an archi- tecture that has different

*-a sizeof ( void * ), and
*-a sizeof ( void (*)( void ) ),

and when you do that, I'll just claim you're making a /malicious
computer architecture/ and refuse to use it.

[1] I've not looked at the code, but told the garbage collector can
and will at least move the code around, if not collect it.

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Hi,

How do you break out of a loop,

What Hamelt is to English language, is Hack to
Compiler Construction. The playbook of Hack contains
every drama that a Compiler Construction will face.
In the following we show how we realized Project 6:
Assembler from the Nand to Tetris journey via
a little Prolog DSL.

BTW, roughly or maybe not?
Hack (the book) =
Nand to Tetris (the website) =
Nisan, N. and Schocken, S. (the authors)

See also:

-C-WAM Assembly: Comfortable Labels and Goto https://medium.com/2989/1a11dd512813

Have Fun!

Bye


Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

pi-WAM is compiled to Hack VM. You
can realize goto's wherever you want. The
Hack VM I am using is a variant of:

The Elements of Computing Systems
Nisan, N. and Schocken, S. - June 15, 2021, MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539807/the-elements-of-computing-systems/

I just combine the 16-bit A and D instructions
into single 32-bit instructions. You
find a Hack VM interpreter for WebGPU here:

11.4 Giga Lips with a Budget Laptop https://github.com/Jean-Luc-Picard-2021/gigabudget

Hava Fun!

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Using Java sometimes doesn't make me a Java
evangelist. I wouldn't care less about any
programming language, because the idea of

pi-WAM draws from pi-calculus and WAM. But
since we are in 2026, not many people
might remember pi-calculus:

Functions as Processes
Robin Milner - June 1989
https://hal.science/docs/00/07/54/05/PDF/RR-1154.pdf

AI chat bots know pi-calculus from time to
time, while interacting, they spit out
pi-calculus. I have always to tame them,

and let them cool down, since well, the
pi-calculus doesn't happen directly in the
pi-WAM. Rather in the FFI, which has create

operations on threads and queue, frankly my
pi-WAM is an extremly crippled, has only
a few primitives from pi-calculus.

BYe

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson schrieb:

On 29/07/2026 11:25 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

On 07/29/2026 08:11 AM, Mild Shock wrote:


Then, of course, the idea that it naturally employs or "saturates"
the processor resources while doing work, in the low-level, yet
also has a direct interpretation in higher-level languages, even
"higher-level languages without GOTO", has also that it's faster
in both machine-organized, compiled, and interpreted environments.

Didn't you say in some other post you've done Java professionally?

How do you break out of a loop, from within a switch () statement
in Java? I gather that's simply impossible, because "goto" isn't
implemented, and the "break" statement doesn't see labels outside
the switch ()?

Not sure how well that fits within comp.theory, as I haven't sub-
scribed yet, but perhaps Mild Shock is willing to comment on that
glaring deficiency in the Java programming language?

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