I have been thinking about a few useful additions to the foreign calls of J. I am sure everyone has their own list of additions but here are mine. To keep this fun let’s restrain our lists to at most three items. Here are my top two.
1) *Efficient support for HTTPS in JHS.* Post Snowden running without encryption is just asking for it. Hacking a J engine confers god like powers on the hacker. Support for HTTPS would make it a lot easier to deploy JHS solutions in increasingly paranoid corporate environments. 2) *High performance compression tuned to J data types.* There a few addons that make a stab at this but one could achieve much higher performance if it was an integral 3!:x verb that exploited J’s knowledge of its internal data types. A good example is compressing Booleans. Knowing the data is Boolean, rather than byte, allows much faster and more compact results. -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
