[Vm-dev] Tangential: A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life

[Eliot Miranda]

Try replacing the Array with a ByteArray and see if their is any performance improvement.

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> On Jan 16, 2023, at 12:01 PM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Very cool. I would not volunteer to refactor that :-D
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> It's tricky to get high performance GameOfLife in Squeak. 
> Here is a morph I worked on. I use an array as data structure.
> Each cell is an integer.  
> Neighbouring cells alive are 0 to 8 and alive cell are 10 + neighbours.
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> It gets a decent framerate.
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> Best,
> Karl
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>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 5:43 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> A fabulous example of Turing completeness and by far the most sophisticated Life system I’ve seen.
>> https://woodrush.github.io/blog/posts/2022-01-12-lisp-in-life.html
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>> The video is here: 
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