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I am fascinated by these IF engines for some reason. What sets the Dialog apart is, IMHO, the performance it gets on 6502 in combination with the Å-machine VM

I am fascinated by these IF engines for some reason. What sets the Dialog apart is, IMHO, the performance it gets on 6502 in combination with the Å-machine VM by the same author. It's a domain specific language + optimized compiler + runtime for a platform (C64) that hasn't been made for decades. There are some excellent Z-machine impls for C64, but basically anything using the Inform7 runtime (a bunch of convenience parsing and world tricks) runs like a dog. Dialog + Å-machines gets a respectable and growing amount of the way there but cutting out the middle man. Linus has some extreme coding cred in my book! https://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php https://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php https://youtu.be/sWblpsLZ-O8 https://youtu.be/sWblpsLZ-O8

Tistron 6y ago
In my book too. I was in his class studying software engineering in Lund, and had a room next him doing our theses at Sony Ericsson. I didn't know him, but I and friends talked about how brilliant and quirky he was. Have always been fascinated by him and his projects. And I remember him as very polite and friendly. I have gained a lot of social interest and skills since and wish I'd talked to him much more. 15 years later, he is the only one of my not-friends I remember from that class.