Hi, Good work,
In PolyMaths/SciSmalltalk vectors and matrix are already implemented efficiently. I would recommend to share the same implementation. In the next few years, I think we will improve the performance of those vectors/matrix library using the processor vector instructions, and it would be nice if we have to improve one but not two libraries of vectors and matrix (This is the polie way of saying I am going to improve one library and the others will have to do it themselves). Regards, On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Our team is working on a couple of projects that are relevant for the core > of Pharo, namely GT and Bloc/Brick. At ESUG we were asked by several > people, and Stef in particular, to make the progress on these projects more > transparent. To this end, we will start two streams of signals: > - fine grained info bits on out Twitter account (several times a week): > https://twitter.com/feenkcom > - a less often but regular (probably every 2 weeks) activity log message > sent to this mailing list > > Please let us know if you see an issue with this. > > In the meantime, let’s start. > > Bloc: > - Over the past couple of weeks Alex worked on transformations and > measurements in the core system. It turns out that there was room for quite > a number of performance optimizations and for making the system more > debuggable. > - At the low level, this involved adding matrix and vector support. > https://twitter.com/feenkcom/status/923123870537863168 > https://twitter.com/feenkcom/status/916300180848349185 > - At a higher level, it implies keeping track of measurements > https://twitter.com/AliakseiSyrel/status/915203525931622400 > - And of transformations: > https://twitter.com/feenkcom/status/919603739656417281 > https://twitter.com/feenkcom/status/917116164484096001 > - The BlScalableElement is now working properly > > GT Examples: > - The current repository with unary-based examples is at: > https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit-examples > - We now have a runner in the inspector that allows us to both see the > source code and run and play with the resulting object: > https://twitter.com/feenkcom/status/923210686204989442 > - Andrei made the “after” behavior to work with unary examples. > > Cheers, > The feenk team > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > www.feenk.com > > "Being happy is a matter of choice." > > > > > > -- Clément Béra Pharo consortium engineer https://clementbera.wordpress.com/ Bâtiment B 40, avenue Halley 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
