Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-09 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-10-09 20:33, Rainer Schuetze wrote: This is a gcc extension, which isn't supported under Windows by dmd. It seems to be possible in Visual Studio [1], but that still leaves OMF. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1113409/attribute-constructor-equivalent-in-vc -- /Jacob

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-09 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/9/2014 7:25 AM, Dicebot wrote: At the same time I don't see what real benefit such runtime options brings to the table. This is why in my PR garbage collector is currently chosen during compilation time. Choosing at compile time is probably best.

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-09 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/9/2014 11:25 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote: Martin is very much against this, one reason is that it does not work with druntime in a shared library. I can understand that, but I also don't know what a reasonable use case would be for sharing a library yet using different GC's - it sounds

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread eles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 00:18:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/7/2014 3:27 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Walter Bright, el 7 de October a las 13:06 me escribiste: On 10/6/2014 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote: That's a good idea, but I hate environment variables affecting all D executables.

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread Rory McGuire via Digitalmars-d-announce
I like the on/off at runtime idea. Less scary to try on important code. We can just disable the concurrent gc if we notice dodgy things happening. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:09 AM, eles via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:29:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote: No, I didn't get to running any perf test so far. Did PR as soon as test suite passes and commits looked sane. Will do eventually. Any specific project you are interested in? I'd love to see the impact on vibe.d but it is subject to

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:18:18 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: That's a good idea, but I hate environment variables affecting all D executables. They always wind up being inadvertently being left on, or off, or set for some unrelated

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 06:58:36 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:18:18 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: i assume that not everyone are ready to build dmd from sources, Digger? What can be

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 07:14:29 + Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: i assume that not everyone are ready to build dmd from sources, Digger? What can be easier? i've never used Digger, so i can't tell anything about it. ;-) signature.asc

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 07:14:29 + Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: i assume that not everyone are ready to build dmd from sources, Digger? What can be easier? p.s. i mean that it will be good to have Digger mentioned somewhere at the

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/8/2014 2:55 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 00:18:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Sort of like: user: need to fix this on the website n.g.: thanks! fixed now! user: no it isn't n.g.: looks good to me [lots of fruitless back and forth] n.g.: did you

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 20:47:09 +0300 ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: p.s. i believe that there shouldn't be any flags that turns off range checking. if someone wants to do it fast, he can use pointer arithmetics (this is exactly the same as using arrays

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08.10.2014 19:39, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/8/2014 12:43 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I think this is an unjustified fear, there are already many environment variables that can affect your program. That's why they are called... environment variables :) Being on the front lines of tech

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 at 17:39:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Being on the front lines of tech support for 30 years, it is not an unjustified fear nor a hypothetical problem. What you could do is propose a secret switch to all dmd generated programs that the druntime switch checks before

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06.10.2014 19:29, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/6/14, 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985 This is awesome. I recall Don had some solid performance numbers for it in his talk, do

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-08 Thread Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08.10.2014 22:10, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/8/2014 11:19 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote: There is no perfect plan how an application can change the default options that are used without arguments, though. Doing this in main() is too late for some parameters (e.g. precise), because the GC will

D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
to be aware of: 1) Documentation is largely missing. Working on it, reading @leandro-lucarella-sociomantic old posts (http://www.llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/tag/understanding%20the%20current%20gc) may help in the meanwhile 2) Code style differs from Phobos standards. To be fixed soon. 3) Shared library

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 16:51:06 + Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985 Here is initial port result available for early experiments. It can be compiled with make -f posix.mak

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
tests disabled (ef20b7a). There are still many issues to be aware of: 1) Documentation is largely missing. Working on it, reading @leandro-lucarella-sociomantic old posts (http://www.llucax.com.ar/blog/blog/tag/understanding%20the%20current%20gc) may help in the meanwhile 2) Code style differs

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/6/14, 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985 This is awesome. I recall Don had some solid performance numbers for it in his talk, do you have any in the context of D2? -- Andrei

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/6/14, 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985 This is awesome. I recall Don had some solid performance numbers for it in his talk, do you have any in the context of D2? --

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

2014-10-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/6/14, 10:29 AM, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 6 October 2014 at 17:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/6/14, 9:51 AM, Dicebot wrote: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/985 This is awesome. I recall Don had some solid performance numbers for it in his talk, do

Software developer/data scientist positions at Sociomantic

2014-05-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hello all, Sociomantic has some new D developer positions open. This time, we're particularly interested in those of you whose background covers things like machine learning, data science, and other fun and related topics. Perfect for people with research backgrounds who want to get hands

Re: Software developer/data scientist positions at Sociomantic

2014-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/7/14, 5:44 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Hello all, Sociomantic has some new D developer positions open. (you’ll be programming in D1) ಠ_ಠ Andrei

Re: Software developer/data scientist positions at Sociomantic

2014-05-07 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:09:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: (you’ll be programming in D1) ಠ_ಠ I refer you to my colleague's excellent talk, soon to be presented at DConf :-) http://dconf.org/2014/talks/clugston.html

Re: It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

2014-04-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/4/14, 2:06 AM, Don wrote: On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:38:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/3/14, 7:04 AM, Don wrote: https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/ Congratulations to all involved! How will this impact the use of D at dunnhumby? Andrei

Re: It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

2014-04-04 Thread Don
On Friday, 4 April 2014 at 02:38:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/3/14, 7:04 AM, Don wrote: https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/ Congratulations to all involved! How will this impact the use of D at dunnhumby? Andrei This is going to be very big for D. Our

It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

2014-04-03 Thread Don
https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/

Re: It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

2014-04-03 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 4/3/14, Don x...@nospam.com wrote: https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/ Congrats! I don't suppose there will be a blog post showcasing a successful exit of a startup that used D as its core technology? It could be a nice advertisement for D. :)

Re: It's official: Sociomantic Labs has been acquired by dunnhumby Ltd

2014-04-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/3/14, 7:04 AM, Don wrote: https://www.sociomantic.com/dunnhumby-acquires-sociomantic/ Congratulations to all involved! How will this impact the use of D at dunnhumby? Andrei

Re: Sociomantic

2014-03-20 Thread Mengu
On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 at 16:06:41 UTC, Sociomantic wrote: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=detl=enjs=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fwebwelt%2Farticle125913260%2FBriten-kaufen-Berliner-Start-up-fuer-200-Millionen.html damn. was gonna apply for a job

Sociomantic

2014-03-18 Thread Sociomantic
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=detl=enjs=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fwebwelt%2Farticle125913260%2FBriten-kaufen-Berliner-Start-up-fuer-200-Millionen.html

Re: Sociomantic

2014-03-18 Thread David
Am 18.03.2014 17:06, schrieb Sociomantic: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=detl=enjs=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fwebwelt%2Farticle125913260%2FBriten-kaufen-Berliner-Start-up-fuer-200-Millionen.html For all the Germans who want to read the original

Re: Sociomantic

2014-03-18 Thread Joakim
Here's another article in English, reporting that Sociomantic is about to be bought by a subsidiary of the British supermarket chain Tesco, for around $200 million: http://www.adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/dunnhumby-closes-in-on-sociomantic-deal-would-create-new-media-platform-backed

Re: Sociomantic

2014-03-18 Thread Gary Willoughby
On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 at 16:06:41 UTC, Sociomantic wrote: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=detl=enjs=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Fwebwelt%2Farticle125913260%2FBriten-kaufen-Berliner-Start-up-fuer-200-Millionen.html After hearing Don Clugston's

Sociomantic review of DConf2013

2013-06-07 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Hello there, a little late but you might enjoy it. It even includes an exclusive interview with some of the speakers! http://blog.sociomantic.com/2013/06/dconf-2013-review/ Feel free to share in all the usual social networks...

Re: Sociomantic review of DConf2013

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 6/7/13 8:47 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Hello there, a little late but you might enjoy it. It even includes an exclusive interview with some of the speakers! http://blog.sociomantic.com/2013/06/dconf-2013-review/ Feel free to share in all the usual social networks... Great, I think I'll

Re: Sociomantic review of DConf2013

2013-06-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 6/7/13 8:47 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Hello there, a little late but you might enjoy it. It even includes an exclusive interview with some of the speakers! http://blog.sociomantic.com/2013/06/dconf-2013-review/ Feel free to share in all the usual social networks... I left a bit of time

Re: Sociomantic review of DConf2013

2013-06-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:47:27 +0200 Leandro Lucarella leandro.lucare...@sociomantic.com wrote: Hello there, a little late but you might enjoy it. It even includes an exclusive interview with some of the speakers! http://blog.sociomantic.com/2013/06/dconf-2013-review/ Feel free to share in

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