That is wonderful news!

Didier,  There is a natural question that arises: what are the performance implications of Smalltalk or Java?  Why not C with a Smalltalk wrapper?  I have not tried number crunching with Cog or NativeBoost doing some of the expensive lifting, but absent those advantages, the benefit from coding tight loops in C has been nothing short of eerie.  I have never tried Java for it.  If there is a speed boost to be had, would a port offend you?  I am a pragmatist, so it would begin one function at a time, chosen by the type of work I do and driven by when the machine grunts.

Thanks,

Bill



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From: pharo-project-bounces at lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces at lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Stéphane Ducasse [stephane.ducasse at inria.fr]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:02 PM
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Cc: Didier H. Besset
Subject: [Pharo-project] Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical    Methods" under the MIT license

I want to thanks didier for releasing the code of his book under MIT.
Thanks!


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Didier Besset <didier at ieee.org>
> Date: October 14, 2010 8:06:52 PM GMT+02:00
> To: Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse at inria.fr>
> Subject: Disclaimer
>
> I hereby release the code of my book "Object Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods" under the MIT license.
>
> Didier Besset


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