Folks, I've been a tad scarce in the past month or so. This is because I've been working on a paper submission, which turned out to be a major and extremely captivating effort. Can't share yet - double blind review system. That in addition to getting DConf on the runway etc.

I'll be traveling a bit next and meet with Walter. The DConf committee (Walter, Ali, Dicebot, and myself) will review all submissions and put together the conference program.

Next on my coding agenda is rcstring.


Andrei

On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 12:58:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Next on my coding agenda is rcstring.

I thought you were working on the container, or has [1] established itself as pseudo standard.

About rcstring, I have [2] which works for what I need for. I plan to extend it some more to make it more mutable (CoW).

[1] https://github.com/economicmodeling/containers
[2] https://github.com/burner/std.rcstring

On 3/9/16 8:36 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 12:58:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Next on my coding agenda is rcstring.
>
> I thought you were working on the container, or has [1] established
> itself as pseudo standard.
>
> About rcstring, I have [2] which works for what I need for. I plan to
> extend it some more to make it more mutable (CoW).
>
> [1] https://github.com/economicmodeling/containers
> [2] https://github.com/burner/std.rcstring

Cool, thanks! -- Andrei

On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 12:58:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Folks, I've been a tad scarce in the past month or so. This is because I've been working on a paper submission, which turned out to be a major and extremely captivating effort. Can't share yet - double blind review system. That in addition to getting DConf on the runway etc.
>
> I'll be traveling a bit next and meet with Walter. The DConf committee (Walter, Ali, Dicebot, and myself) will review all submissions and put together the conference program.
>
> Next on my coding agenda is rcstring.
>
>
> Andrei

What ever happened to that Big O library you were writing?

On 3/9/16 7:40 PM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 12:58:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Folks, I've been a tad scarce in the past month or so. This is because
>> I've been working on a paper submission, which turned out to be a
>> major and extremely captivating effort. Can't share yet - double blind
>> review system. That in addition to getting DConf on the runway etc.
>>
>> I'll be traveling a bit next and meet with Walter. The DConf committee
>> (Walter, Ali, Dicebot, and myself) will review all submissions and put
>> together the conference program.
>>
>> Next on my coding agenda is rcstring.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> What ever happened to that Big O library you were writing?

It's done and with a nice accompanying article too, I just need to allocate the time to push it into Phobos. -- Andrei

On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 15:25:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> It's done and with a nice accompanying article too, I just need to allocate the time to push it into Phobos. -- Andrei

You could just push it to dub in the meantime so people can play with it.

On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 15:25:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> What ever happened to that Big O library you were writing?

Does this mean the container-library? If so what does the "Big O" stand for?

>
> It's done and with a nice accompanying article too, I just need to allocate the time to push it into Phobos. -- Andrei

Can't wait to see it!

On Friday, 11 March 2016 at 08:25:12 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 15:25:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> What ever happened to that Big O library you were writing?
>
> Does this mean the container-library? If so what does the "Big O" stand for?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_o_notation

It has to do with rating the worst case algorithmic complexity of a function. e.g. the current std.container lists the Big-O complexity of its various primitives.

The Big O stuff that he worked on was done as part of working on the new containers, but it's separate from them. It provides a way to mark functions with their complexity and do inference and the like with it.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Friday, 11 March 2016 at 09:39:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> The Big O stuff that he worked on was done as part of working on the new containers, but it's separate from them. It provides a way to mark functions with their complexity and do inference and the like with it.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

That sounds like something really new and useful.

On Friday, 11 March 2016 at 22:27:54 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
> On Friday, 11 March 2016 at 09:39:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> The Big O stuff that he worked on was done as part of working on the new containers, but it's separate from them. It provides a way to mark functions with their complexity and do inference and the like with it.
>
> That sounds like something really new and useful.

It did seem pretty cool, and it looked like the sort of thing that many languages would have a hard time emulating, so it should be another win for D in that respect on top of just being useful.

- Jonathan M Davis