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I have seen analyses of ECM software; and I think they could benefit greatly from a new language. The priority seems to be reliable real-time computation, and

I have seen analyses of ECM software; and I think they could benefit greatly from a new language. The priority seems to be reliable real-time computation, and the solution is to calculate everything as a continuous function. Anything that would be a branch is instead a binary mix of the conditions, triggered with a threshold function. I can think of many ways of structuring programs which are spaghettiish in C, but would yield the desired results in an automotive ECM.

woodman 11y ago
I've tackled some problems that would have ideally, from a performance perspective, been implemented with very deeply nested if()'s. I've found a truth table like layout of bool evaluations to be a nice compromise between maintainability and performance: void doit(const tststructptr* in) { assert(in); /* Because we test our code, for safety */ const tststructptr t = *in; if ( t.t1 && t.t2 && t.t3) { f1(); } else if ( t.t1 && !t.t2 && t.t3) { f2(); } else if ( t.t1 && t.t2 && !t.t3) { f3(); } else /* TODO: Fix, this should never happen */ releasenerveagent(SLEEPINGQUARTERS); } A long sequence of ternary operators allow for a prettier layout, but is more error prone.