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Alain wrote:
> You don't need a full-scale virtual machine, only a prety limited one
> only supporting what you need it to support. You don't need to launch
> several of those, you can reuse the same one for several modules. How
> about one that simulate some opensource, limited linux-like environment.
> In fact, you may not even need to have an OS running in that sandbox! A
> little like running a ROM based application on a diskless box. That way,
> you gain an OS independance, whitch allows you to use those external
> modules regardless of what OS you use.

I think we've been talking past each other here. :-P I'm assuming that
"external libraries" means being able to execute arbitrary, existing
software. I can't think of any good Windows examples (launch Halo, do a
screen capture, and use it as a texture?), but it would be cool to, say,
 automatically run ffmpeg to convert your frames into a move, or run the
Gimp in batch mode to do post-processing (automatic convert to jpeg?).
Maybe control X10 devices from SDL? ;-)

Now that I've read your description, though, I'm intrigued. You're
talking about only running programs written _for_ this POV virtual
machine? In that sense, it would be a sort of heavyweight extension to
the SDL.

You could have your run-of-the-mill SDL code running in an interpreter
heavily optimized for speed, and then have the option of launching this
VM code when you need flexibility more than speed.

That's kind of cool. :-)

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William Tracy
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You know you've been raytracing too long when your electricity bill is
extortionate because you refuse to let any rooms in your house be unlit,
even overnight.
    -- Richard Morton
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