And yeah, we could also be using bare metal hardware in tandem with a beaglebone for even better performance. But that would also require C / C++ at minimum, and honestly is not needed for our own purposes.
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:43 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Niels Jakob Buch <njb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am thinking that its a shame, when there is a splendid opportunity to >> move into higher level languages and managed code. We have a full-blown >> computer here, with an operating system, and we are using the same >> programming approach as the dudes that are running with a PIC. >> >> Argh! >> >> The robotics cape c-library seems very mature and usable, and very >> tempting to start coding with that. But I want a much mature and abstract >> approach so I can focus on building prototypes. >> > > The problem I have with most, if not all higher level languages is that > the overhead is too steep. Most of the project's I'm working on right now > involve a lot of processes running all at once, and many of these are as > close to real-time as possible. So, the smaller the executable, and the > faster it runs, the better our system performs. Where performance in our > own case can be perceived by our end users. > > Now if you're on the moon, or mars where you already have hours worth of > latency, when remote controlling something. That may not be a big deal. But > lets envision an analogy where you have production line, with sever stop > buttons to stop that production line in case of an emergency. You do *NOT* > to be running code that can take seconds to respond to input. You need as > close to immediate of a response as possible. Otherwise someone's life > could be in danger. > > Thankfully for our own case, our application is not quite so mission > critical. But how well the system performs in whole can be perceived by our > end users. Which for us, is very important. > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORq%2BtxxYyuvfpM%2B%3D4o908gZ-hPa0M2-3N%2BdYvBOQo70jrA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
