That is wonderful news!

Didier,  There is a natural question that arises: what are the performance 
implications of Smalltalk or Java?  Why not C with a Smalltalk wrapper?  I have 
not tried number crunching with Cog or NativeBoost doing some of the expensive 
lifting, but absent those advantages, the benefit from coding tight loops in C 
has been nothing short of eerie.  I have never tried Java for it.  If there is 
a speed boost to be had, would a port offend you?  I am a pragmatist, so it 
would begin one function at a time, chosen by the type of work I do and driven 
by when the machine grunts.

Thanks,

Bill



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Methods" under the MIT license

I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT.
Thanks!


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Didier Besset <[email protected]>
> Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00
> To: Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]>
> Subject: Disclaimer
>
> I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of 
> Numerical Methods" under the MIT license.
>
> Didier Besset


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