Actora 0.1

This is an early checkpoint release looking at a custom FPGA core for a small Erlang-like language. Concurrency features (and multiple cores) are not supported yet, but some foundations have been laid:

• Elite: a small Erlang-like language
• Compiler from Elite to C (runs on x86 and NIOS-II)
• Stack-machine ISA (Actora bytecode)
• Compiler from Elite to Actora bytecode
• Emulator (in C++) for Actora bytecode
• Set of 8 Elite benchmarks
• Comparison of the Elite C Backend and the High-Performance Erlang Compiler (HIPE)
• Single-core Actora implementation on FPGA (in Blarney)
• Comparison of Actora core and NIOS-II on DE5-Net and DE10-Pro

This release is appropriate for analysing and evaluating the performance of a single Actora core in isolation.