By whygee on Friday 26 July 2013, 17:14 - Updates and news

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Today, I received an email from Jean-Christophe who asked me to copy-paste some source code he attached, open a framebuffer and simulator, and let it run a few hours...

This is what his code displayed :

Yes, this is really a Mandelbrot set, computed in integer mode with 8-bit multiplies...

Of course it's slow but it's extremely interesting and gives ideas about how to speed up the simulator. It runs at about 2500 instructions / second on a Core i3 @2.3GHz on Firefox and so far it's behaving well... I think about :

• adding a 16x16 bits multiply for YASEP32
• adding register parking in the simulator
• creating a data memory area for the simulator (so one does not have to use the framebuffer to store variables)
• buffering access to the DOM so the browser is refreshed less often, and spends less time managing graphic elements that are not even seen or displayed...

Thanks Jean-Christophe, and keep blowing my mind !

Update:

Later, JCH sent me a slightly faster version of the code :-) 518 million cycles instead of 820 millions...

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20200411:

Despite its many shortcomings, the YASEP was thus officially "Mandelbrot Complete" :-)