That's a very slick JavaScript app. The interactive plotting is really very nice. The mathy input widget is great too. JavaScript certainly has the performance these days to make this stuff work – and as long as you stick to 64-bit floats, things are probably all good, unless someone decides to hobble basic functions like sin, of course.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Jason Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:46:24 PM UTC-7, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> Someone once asked me about using JavaScript for numerical computing. >> > > Numerical computing with javascript is my day job: https://www.desmos.com/. > I got interested in this whole saga because our unit tests started failing. > > In general, I think it's actually a ton of fun, but sometimes it's fun > because of the challenge of "how do I do this well without any of the tools > or infrastructure I'm used to (e.g. blas...)." >
