ByteLabs

We came up with another interesting project that might be of interest to you! The full title of this project is “A LLVM Backend for a Just-In-Time Compilation Engine of a state-of-the-art Instruction Set Simulator” and a detailed project specification can be found here.

If you are interested you can either contact me, Björn or Nigel.

The School of Informatics in Edinburgh was hosting this years SICSA DEMOfest'09 where our PASTA research group presented the latest developments sourrounding the next generation EnCore Embedded Microprocessor codenamed Castle.

• More information about DEMOfest'09 event.
• More information about the PASTA Research Group.

As of today the PASTA project has issued an official press release about our new EnCore microprocessor.

Press Release: Gadgets could go greener with high-speed computer chip

I have just finished the facelift of our CArD – Compiler and Architecture Design Group website. The people page gives a good overview about our members and we finally have a news section as well.

From today on we have a wikipedia page for the EnCore processor.

Also if you search for ‘pasta project’ on video.google.com we are one of the top hits. We also do very well on traditional search engines like google, yahoo, and bing – searching for ‘pasta project’ reveals us at the very top most of the time.

I have been working on a video that portrays what our PASTA research group does. Have fun watching it and remember that none of us are professional camera men, actors, or video editors - so it is a bit shaky but hopefully still informative and fun.

This has bugged me for a while when useing TextMates ‘Filter Through Command…’ to replace all newlines in a selection. Somehow my mind always wants to use sed to do this although there are simpler ways to do it.

The following works with GNU sed but not with BSD sed on my Mac (although it should work given the documentation in the man page):

sed -n ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g;p' < infile

What this does is the following:

• :a put label at the first position
• N Append the next line of input to the pattern space
• $!ba branch to label a, the ! tells it to apply the command to a non-selected pattern space and the $ addresses the last line of input
• s/\n//g substitutes a newline with a space
• p writes pattern space to standard output

If you can make this work with BSD sed please let me know.

Our PASTA (Processor Automated Synthesis by iTerative Analysis Project) research group has a new website. The content is still quite incomplete but over the next few weeks we shall bring it all into shape. So stay tuned….

If you are functional programmer you surely have used foldr or foldl before. By accident I found out that Oliver Steele registered the following domains:

• http://foldl.com/
• http://foldr.com/

:-)

Under Australian copyright laws, copyright in literary works of authors, who died before 1955, has expired. These works are now within the ‘public domain’ in Australia and this is why the University of Adelaide is able to reproduce such works on the world wide web. Here go some of my favourites:

• George Orwell
• Charles Darwin
• Immanuel Kant
• Franz Kafka
• Leo Tolstoy
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• many more….