From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,a30e9cc47b5029fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Vladimir Olensky" Subject: Re: ratioanl number type Date: 1999/12/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559413913 References: <38473D8A.9BB68676@gte.net> <3847E5B3.B96339A8@iforex.net> <385252FF.BB4C7A5@gte.net> <01bf43ea$646d5bc0$022a6282@dieppe> <38527A46.B4833D6A@gte.net> <01bf43f3$3aadb600$022a6282@dieppe> Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Date: 1999-12-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote in message <01bf43f3$3aadb600$022a6282@dieppe>... >Clifford J. Nelson a �crit dans l'article ><38527A46.B4833D6A@gte.net>... >> >> Well then, am I wasting my time trying to beat Mma with a compiled high >> level language? >> >> Cliff Nelson > >If your goal is to beat Mma you'll certainly are about to wast some time. >To beat it you'll certainly have to produce some (maybe lot of :) assembly code... Maybe only some core assembler routines that make use of processor SIMD extensions. That would allow drastically improve efficiency. I suspect that Mathematica is using SIMD already. >If your goal is to build a portable set of packages to do some mathematical >computation then you are far from beeing wasting your time. And if you plan >to release these libraries under GPL or let us have the sources then definitly >go ahead :) It would be nice. This could be very good contribution to Ada. Regards, Vladimir Olensky