* Peter Verswyvelen <[email protected]> [2009-03-07 18:34:10+0100] > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The blog > > > seems to be inactive since december 2008; has development ceased? > > > > Sort of. One reason is that DPH does not seem to be ready for hpysics > > yet, another one is that I don't see any potential users around (read: I > > just need a kick in the ass). > > > > Is it a performance issue?
Yes. As Roman Leshchinskiy explained it's because parallel arrays are not fused properly yet. But it's quite trivial to modify Hpysics to use ordinary lists or arrays, and I think it'll give reasonable performance. > > > Integrating hpysics with Grapefruit might be a good topic for the > > Hackaton, > > > trying to make a simple game (e.g. Pong or Breakout) without using > > recursive > > > signal functions, but with correct collision response and > > better-than-Euler > > > integration, all handled by the physics engine. Other FRP engines could > > be > > > tried, but Grapefruit hacking is already a topic on the Hackaton, so it > > > would combine efforts. > > > > Yes, I'm actively pondering Hpysics+Grapefruit (it's the primary reason > > of my interest in Grapefruit). But first of all we need to get graphics > > support into Grapefruit. > > > > Does your proposal re Hackathon indicate that you'd like to join? > > > > Yes, Thomas 'Bob' Davie and I already joined the Hackaton, but the wiki is > not yet updated.I see you've joined too, cool Great! I'll have more free time after March 15, and we can arrange an IRC meeting to discuss this. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
