Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Advancements

[Brian H. <bri...@ql...>]

Oh, and I have more to contribute.  Basic status of my work at this point:

- bitset is being rewritten into bitarray, with the new features suggested 
by the change in name.  The goal is to produce something you could write 
elliptic curve cryptosystems in at least semi-efficiently.

- I have the beginings of what I'm currently calling an XString library,
which stores a string as an unbalanced tree of of substrings.  The big
advantage here is that concats are O(1), and then converting the XString
to a normal string is O(n).  In-place modification won't be supported.  
This will be usefull in constructing strings by concating substrings 
efficiently.  Sort of like Java's StringBuffer.

- A resizable array module- rather like Java's Vector or Python's List.

Life has been rather hectic of late for me- sorry I haven't been more 
timely on this.  But this weekend is looking dull, so I should be able to 
spend some serious coding time.

Longer term, libraries I'd like (and that I think would be usefull) would 
include:

- A BLAS-like library.  Although I need to think about this design some- 
OOLALA has shown me that BLAS itself is probably not the best overall 
library design.

- A regular expressions library- although I think this might already be 
out there.

- An elliptic curve crypto systems library.

Brian


On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm quite disapointed about the current silence on this list... After a
> short period of time where everyone really wanted to contribute, there seems
> to be no more will to do so (excepted Brian modules post), but perhaps most
> of people there only wanted to give advices about how to name such module
> and not really develop and implement the ExtLib :))
> For people who are still interested, I'll keep on gathering modules, and
> since we have a 3-days WeekEnd here in Japan starting tomorrow, I'll try to
> come on monday with a first ExtLib version implementing all suggestions
> being made, so we can put it on some CVS.
> 
> Nicolas Cannasse
> 
> 
> 
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