Scientific Computing

Jochen Schneider josch at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Wed Sep 2 16:36:45 UTC 1998


That's what I imagine Scientific Computing in Fortran to be like: number
crunching of float arrays (albeit on a larger scale). I wouldn't mind
using Squeak for image processing, but that's only fun with an image
class available. Does anybody still use Squeak for that purpose?

	Jochen

Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
> 
> Let's not forget the Smalltalk-to-C translator in Squeak. In fact, this is
> the perfect medium between performance and malleability. High-level
> algorithms for any domain can be debugged in Smalltalk and then translated
> and batch compiled (and optimized) by your favorite C compiler. This is
> preferable to optimizing single floating-point math operations.
> 
> There are examples of this in John Maloney's sound synthesis classes and in
> the FFT class. ...
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