I’ll try to work on this in chunks starting soon, but there’s no way it’ll be finished before December.
— John On Oct 22, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org> wrote: > I would love to have this as soon as possible, and even work towards > parallelization. Perhaps if some first steps can be taken, I am sure more can > jump in and get this done. > > Also, package help is the other big impediment here, and as soon as #8588 can > be merged - I think we can have something that a lot more people may be > comfortable using. > > -viral > > On Sunday, September 7, 2014 8:00:04 AM UTC+5:30, John Myles White wrote: > I am hoping that the 0.4 release of Julia will coincide with a major cleanup > of the Data* world. I wrote up a very high level overview of my goals here: > https://gist.github.com/johnmyleswhite/ad5305ecaa9de01e317e > > There’s still more work to do to flesh out these ideas, but the basic > principles are pretty close to finalized. There’s also a rough draft of much > of the core functionality we’ll need to add to support this roadmap. > > I wanted to give everyone a heads up so that people understand where the > Data* packages are headed. The big idea is that we’ll be pushing more work > out into the type system, which will give substantial performance > improvements. > > — John >
