instrumentation

They'd take the form of essentially space telescopes with special instrumentation for sending and receiving laser comms.

One-man planes are rare enough, but a one-man plane with full instrumentation would be something special.

While Java 9 sadly won't include native JVM fibers or continuations, it will probably make the instrumentation process 100% transparent.

Quasar's bytecode instrumentation is really very gentle -- no class fields/methods are added/removed and object state isn't changed in any way.

I have an instrumentation class that's 1h30 a week, and yet we regularly finish 20 to 30mins early.

Turn on unitTests.returnDefaultValues, write some mockable wrappers around core classes like SystemClock, unit test what you can, and write instrumentation tests for everything else.

During that time the instrumentation records a lot of interesting stuff.

I have no problems saying that I am an aircraft instrumentation engineer, nor am I under any obligations to hide that fact.

It tends to be hard to reproduce, and instrumentation can make it go away entirely, leaving you with a need to conjecture about what might be happening.

[citation needed]; a civilization wouldn't just shotgun these things and wave farewell, it would have instrumentation, guidance and engines on board.

Dynamic instrumentation is powerful, I think Google is using DynamoRIO heavily.

Python has monkeypatching, Ruby has meta-programming, C and C++ hack themselves, Rust has unsafe and C, and Java has bytecode instrumentation (load-time *or build-time) and Unsafe.

The only "escape hatches" are source instrumentation and taking your chances with mucking about the runtime in C.

The linked report even has specifics on instrumentation payload and the mass thereof, and includes a rendering and parts list for the proposed "POP" probe.

By "tools", I really mean huge pieces of instrumentation that cost many (tens to hundreds) millions of dollars from other companies that are used for the various processing steps (deposition/growth of materials on wafers, patterning resists, etching, etc).

[1] "Quasar fibers are implemented by creating and scheduling continuation tasks and since the JVM doesn’t (yet) support native continuations, Quasar implements them through selective bytecode instrumentation: methods that can block a fiber currently need to be explicitly marked through annotations so that Quasar can insert the continuation suspension and resumption hooks."