2 Nov 2008 tampe   » (Journeyer)

TeX

Look at it, it's lovely, it's a mathematical formula

I check out the texmacs project regularily. I think that it has such a potential and there are some very interesting ideas floating around in that project.

What are the optimizations I've been thinking about? Well my method although slow should yield a taste of how it works, if it works and shed light on interesting patterns, not new, but interesting. So I'm just looking to find the elements, and how to combine them. This means that I do a tremendous amount of function referencing and consing! Just inlining all the small functions and maybe some tools around that will be enough (the consing is due to me not using multiple-value-bind) maybe not. Other loop macro framework that is interesting and fun to check out, usually seems to flatten the stuff and this could be a good pattern to mimic for success. I have tools that manages the closured internal variable state so flattening the variable space can maybe succeed. Now flattening everything and use gotos might be a bit clumsy and too clumsy, much of that can be done by the lisp compiler perhaps, it might be more wise to concentrate on some kind of loop unrolling helping framework, to find fastpaths and cut out unlikely paths to functions, I don't now. All I know is that while I'm coding with functions and closures I keep in a parallel universe in my head a version of the code that is flattened. One note, some patterns can function on the stack, but not all can do that, If stack variables are faster you may want to think about how to make as much use of the stack as possible and minimize the need to use the heap.

This might end up as a quantum dot of importance, but I don't care, at worst it will result in a document with cool patterns of computing, that's good enough for me

Well, now I need to finish the slow slurry singularities of black magic wormholes between I and I + 1.

Cheers

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