> What numerical techniques are important to you? I am not sure exactly. As I said, I am trying to convince Astronomers :-) I will forward your post to them.
Cheers, Alexandre > How large are the typical data sets, grids, etc? I do a lot of processing on > 500,000 sample signals, so Smalltalk is out for most of that number crunching > (FFT, DWT, norms, etc.) and visualization. So far, I could probably get away > with Smalltalk curve fitting, but that won't always be the case. One option > would be to tell NR and GSL "thanks but no thanks" and find or start an MIT > numerics library. In my mind, it should be C-callable C++; the trick to that > is proper use of extern "C". > > Just to make it clear, I have large parts of GSL mapped into Pharo. My > concern now is how to release that w/o being adversely affected by GPL; help > with understanding "GPL compatible licenses" would be appreciated. Like I > said, I don't care what anyone else does with the code, but I won't have > years of my work rendered useless to me for commercial interests. Nothing in > GSL is worth taking that risk. There should not be any problem releasing the > function definitions; the question is over how much, if any, of the wrappers > I can release w/o losing it all to GPL. > > Bill > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexandre Bergel > [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 7:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Pharo and Astronomy? > > Thanks Bill. I am at the stage of convincing Astronomers to use Pharo to do > their soft, but this is not easy > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
