2015/02/12

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

13:42

Using ByteBuffer magic my impulse reading code from client/server remains quite simple.

16:34

For micro operations and registers I will need some kind of smart chaining so that all of the micro operations and their registers are still valid. I could still do SSA or opt not to. I can however see the optimization benefits that doing SSA would bring. The DecodedMethod would have to handle register chaining for micro operations. Perhaps the best thing to do would have it so registers are very bland in the micro operations, then when they are added the decoded method builds the chain as required. So while the micro ops would not be SSA (they would say read/write to register N), the DecodedMethod chains it all and performs all the checking as required. So an added microop will mess with the chaining and branch structure. Doing it this way would keep the DecodedMethod smart so that operations can be moved around at will without worry about much. So the raw operand table with their micro ops would mostly just be attached to PC addresses while DecodedMethod creates a trail or wrap thing that goes around things (like popcorn on a string on pine trees). And that structure will bend and warp as needed based on the underlying structure.

23:27

Graphics::drawImage does scaling and is not used for clipping, which makes rendering the game view in SQ's editor quite odd.