Re: Building head numerics project

2006-05-06 Thread Sven Panne
Am Freitag, 5. Mai 2006 09:13 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: The most straightforward thing to do is not to build the OpenAL package. I'm sure Sven is working on fixing it, but meanwhile it's entirely inessential. Simply edit the libraries/Makefile. I've already fixed the ALUT package, but I'd

Re: Building head numerics project

2006-05-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Creighton, Thursday, May 4, 2006, 10:00:55 PM, you wrote: So I'm interested in working on the project on improving numerics performance in GHC proposed on the SoC page here http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/13 which states GHC's performance for double and float

RE: Building head numerics project

2006-05-05 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| in general, it's too complex problem, otherwise Simons may already work | on it, because current ghc-generated code is, say, 3 times slower than | it could be. Thank you for believing in our expertise, but you should not assume that something we have not done is necessarily very difficult. GHC

Re: Building head numerics project

2006-05-05 Thread Creighton Hogg
On 5/5/06, Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | in general, it's too complex problem, otherwise Simons may alreadywork| on it, because current ghc-generated code is, say, 3 times slower than| it could be.Thank you for believing in our expertise, but you should not assume that something we

Re[2]: Building head numerics project

2006-05-05 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Creighton, Friday, May 5, 2006, 8:50:18 PM, you wrote: In order to get familiar with GHC's innards, is there anything particular I should begin with?  At the moment I'm just reading through the user's guide. i suggest you to read discussion i already mentioned. and also papers:

Building head numerics project

2006-05-04 Thread Creighton Hogg
Hi,So I'm interested in working on the project on improving numerics performance in GHC proposed on the SoC page herehttp://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/ticket/13 Since I have a full time job, I'd just like to do this on my own time rather than take up an SoC slot.In that vein, Don