This is a summary of my thesis research in progress. Compared to the proposal i submitted to the department lightweight languages for interactive graphics, this presentation is shorter, less technical, more conversational, more colloquial, and a bit flakier. also see Compiler Generation for Interactive Graphics to appear in PE96.

objective

the problem: generality vs performance

examples

example: RTCG of power procedures

metaphor

languages and RTCG

past work

existing approaches to RTCG

partial evaluation

the language approach

nitrous

my system

results

what graphics can we do with it?

chips

how chip architecture fits in

telephone

the telephone operator principle