Re: [pure-lang-users] ANN: Pure 0.6 released

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Hi Libor, and welcome back!

Libor Spacek wrote:
> Congratulations, it even installs and runs easily on my 64bit Windoze Vista.

Thanks for the info, nice to know that it works on 64 bit Windows, too. 
Note that the Windows binary is actually 32 bit, but that shouldn't make 
much of a difference as far as Pure is concerned (except for the range 
of pointer values, of course).

Also note that you can readily implement 'timex' as a macro now, in fact 
that example is discussed in the new macros section in the manual.

> This is progress indeed, well done!

Thanks. :) In fact I'm quite pleased with how quickly Pure has gone from 
a proof of concept to an almost complete base system. LLVM has proved to 
be rather nice to work with, and I'm confident now that it was the right 
decision to retire the slow Q interpreter and its aging codebase, and 
start from scratch.

Just for the record, here's my current roadmap:

0.7: GSL vector and matrix support. Started working on that today, 
expect to finish it still in September.

0.8: Multithreading support. Not sure how long that will take, as I 
haven't really decided about the concurrency model and the base 
libraries (pthreads? OpenMP?) yet.

At that point we'll have a pretty solid and complete base system and 
work can start on the library interfaces. Only the blue sky will be the 
limit then. :)

Cheers,
Albert

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
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