Re: [q-lang-users] Speeding up Q

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

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> I'm looking forward to Pure. Since I have a new 64bit machine and the
> amount of work (Institutional Research stuff) has picked up, I've
> abandoned Q temporarily. 

Ugh, sorry to hear that. :( The good news is that Pure should be 64
bit-ready right from the start.

> How easy will it be to port the libraries to Pure?

Well, I guess that it shouldn't be too hard to write an implementation
of libq for Pure so that most existing Q modules could be reused right
away, at least if they do all their expression manipulation through the
official libq interface.

In any case, simple modules implemented in C or C plugins talking to Q
should be fairly easy to port, as you will be able to just link/dlopen
Pure and C modules together and do *direct* Pure<->C calls! :)

Albert

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