A high level simulator for Gunk

Stephen Adams
adams@ai.mit.edu

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• Contents
• Introduction
• Using HLSIM: a tutorial
  • The Clubs algorithm
  • Running the Clubs algorithm
• Procedures
  • Customizing simulations
• Multithreading
• Sensors and actuators
  • Defining sensors and actuators
  • Using sensors and actuators
  • Example
• Tips and useful procedures
  • Placing processors
  • Repeatable experiments
  • PNM images
• Gunk Scheme vs. ordinary Scheme
  • Global environment.
  • Unbound and unassigned variables.
  • Irritating warnings
• Extending HLSIM
  • Parts of HLSIM
  • Standard communications
  • Efficiency trade-offs
  • Cheating
  • Writing your own cheat procedures
  • Adding an alternative communications model
• Bugs and problems
  • Known problems
    • Wrong number of arguments
  • Reporting bugs
• The transformer
  • Continuation passing style
  • The engine transformation
  • Explicit store
• References
• Index
• About this document ...