The CCRE: A comprehensive award-winning robot code framework

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Originally Posted by Hsifeulbhsifder

That's pretty impressive, our current software takes about 1-2 seconds but can be loaded dynamically, so I was wondering if the CCRE can be loaded dynamically as well i.e. Changing code while the robot is running and not breaking. Although, we require dynamic linkage to a separate binary, and I was wondering if you guys have a better solution. Thanks for the help.

It's possible, but we also provide easy ways to tune and store values on the robot, so most tweaking jobs can be done without code downloads. Plus, once you get below fiveish seconds, it probably doesn't matter too much exactly how low you go.

The reason that our deployment system is so fast in comparison to WPILib's system is that we only open two SSH connections - one for 'admin' and one for 'lvuser', but we could probably find a way to only use one of those. We could probably also parallelize the different deployment steps, and maybe also check hashes to see if we need to download at all.

We aren't planning to improve deployment much more right now, as we've been focusing our development time on improving our core framework as much as possible. Once we release v3.0.0, we plan to keep backwards compatibility for a relatively long time, which limits the extent of our possible refactorings.