Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Dave Herman
Is this an argument for including a matrix library in the spec? 'Cause my point was just, if the rationale for including it is that host implementations could exploit the GPU, well, so could JS. Dave -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Alex Russell wrote: O

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Alex Russell
On Mar 5, 2011, at 3:59 PM, David Herman wrote: >> A big favourite of mine (I'm biased, though...) is the Eigen2 library >> (LGPL3+): > > I can't speak for other browser vendors, but I think that license isn't > compatible with Mozilla's codebase. But thanks for the reference. > >> Using the sm

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread David Herman
> A big favourite of mine (I'm biased, though...) is the Eigen2 library > (LGPL3+): I can't speak for other browser vendors, but I think that license isn't compatible with Mozilla's codebase. But thanks for the reference. > Using the small, fixed size subset of that lib and exporting the > inter

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 05.03.2011 23:38, schrieb David Herman: >> But I miss the linear algebra library to go with it. > > Can you send references to example libraries for other systems that you would > like to see? A big favourite of mine (I'm biased, though...) is

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread David Herman
> But I miss the linear algebra library to go with it. Can you send references to example libraries for other systems that you would like to see? > Especially for the "binary data" approach, as it's removing an order > that might be implicitly known - sorry, I don't know how to express that > be

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread P T Withington
On 2011-03-05, at 14:38, Christian Mayer wrote: > Am 05.03.2011 17:31, schrieb Brendan Eich: >> On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Christian Mayer wrote: >> >>> 1) A printf compatible format string >> >> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format >> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.ph

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Thanks for the fast response! Am 05.03.2011 17:31, schrieb Brendan Eich: > On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Christian Mayer wrote: > >> 1) A printf compatible format string > > http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format > http://wiki

Re: Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Brendan Eich
On Mar 5, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Christian Mayer wrote: > 1) A printf compatible format string http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:string_format http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:quasis We discussed both at the last meeting and quasis is on the agenda for the next one. Mike

Additional language features

2011-03-05 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello together! Currently I'm writing a (for me) large project that is heavily using JavaScript / ECMAScript. During that project I found a few features missing in the language that could easily be added and where I think that many programmers could