Iridium

Hey everyone! In this tutorial, we’re going to start adding in multithreading to the Iridium VM. Please make sure you are starting from this point in the code: https://gitlab.com/subnetzero/iridium/tags/0.0.16. Going forward, I’m going to make a tag per tutorial so that everyone starts from a common point. === A Note on Assumed Knowledge I write these tutorials target towards more advanced users. I sometimes skip small steps, such as "add in this line to file X".

This is going to be a longer post. In it, we’ll wrap up our two-pass assembler, add a PRTS opcode for printing, and tie up some other loose ends. At the end, we should have an interpreter with a good amount of functionality and a simple assembly language. We are, of course, far from done with the project. I want to work on a different tutorial series for a bit, then we’ll continue with Iridium. === Quick Change Add the following dependencies in your Cargo.toml. We’ll need them later:

Having to start the interpreter, then type .load_file, etc is cumbersome. Let’s change it so that the VM tries to execute the file given to it as an argument. There’s a super handy-dandy crate called clap in Rust that will make this trivial. The behavior we want is: