The times I previously posted were from a VirtualBox VM, limited to 4GB of ram,
and in a "noisy" environment. The times here are derived from my host OS
(PCLinuxOS) with full access to the system's 16GB of ram, in a "quiet"
environment, i.e. I closed everything and rebooted, then just opened a
Hey thanks.
I'll try to play around with the settings to get your code to compile when I
get some time.
On my System76 Gazelle laptop, with I7-6700HQ, 2.6-3.5GHz, 16GB ram, running in
a VB VM for Manjaro KDE, using Nim 0.17.0 compiled with: **$ nim c --cc:clang
--d:release ssozp5.nim**
I get
You probably need to specify a path while importing. For example, running from
./bin "prime_bench.nim" file:
from ../src/lib/lib_euler_primes import primeSieve
from os import commandLineParams
from strutils import parseUInt
let arguments = commandLineParams()
I tried the run your code but the compiler doesn't see the euler libraries.
eulerprimes.nim(24, 6) Error: cannot open 'lib_euler_math'
How do I get all the libraries to get it to run?
I'd be interested in benchmark times. Can you post your hardware specs and the
times for
Hey, welcome to Nim,
If you like learning with mathematical challenges, I started Nim and many other
languages with Project Euler, which gives you small mathematical challenges for
your programming languages craving.
[https://projecteuler.net](https://projecteuler.net)/
Here are my [solutions
I agree - Nim is a community driven project, like many open source projects,
and it gets better only if you scratch your own itch. Small improvements to the
documentation is, like dom96 says, a perfect way to start contributing.
[Edit] I agree that not everyone is command-line ninjas, and I
> It's these type of little things that cause unnecessary frustrations and shy
> people away from using new things.
>
> Please think about the things that could potentially go wrong, then create
> instructions and documentation that will prevent them.
We do try, but we don't have the time to
A user may not know, what is terminal (seriously). And this won't work on
Windows (quite widely used thing). Probably a couple of links to some articles
(somewhere on web, at some OS-related forums), one for POSIX and one for
Windows, would give more for less effort.
But you shouldn't write export PATH... in terminal you should write it in your
.bashrc or .zshrc or .rc
@jacmoe
I disagree. I think that @jzakiya has a point. What if a beginner is trying to
pick up Nim? They may not know how to configure their `$PATH`. Something as
simple as changing the wording to:
You will need to configure your `$PATH` environment variable. On most
systems this
I think that _configuring the PATH environment variable_ is more than enough,
to be honest.
It is something that most (perhaps even all?) developers needs to learn how to
do, regardless of the operating system.
As I stated, Nim was not installed via these distros, and was being installed
per the process given on Nim's website.
Putting in the suggested PATH did solve the problem though, so thanks.
$ export PATH=~/nim-0.17.0/bin:$PATH
However, this just highlights the inadequacies of
CMIIW, Nim folder is self contained.
@jzakiya, very likely you already have Nim installed from package manager, and
its installation done like usual any package.
If you put the path in front of `$PATH`, it'll solve your problem.
$ export PATH=~/nim-0.17.0/bin:$PATH
In your
For what it's worth, I have built Nim several times without incident on my
Debian box - following the instructions to the letter - so I guess the problem
you have is specific to your machine.
$ export PATH=$PATH:~/nim-0.17.0/bin
The problem might be the expansion of `~` in the default shell on some O/S. Try
$ export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/nim-0.17.0/bin
You could create an "Issue" in Nim's GitHub repo so this specific problem can
be discussed there, separate
I've been considering creating a Snap package and/or AppImage for Nim for a
while. Maybe I'll have a proper look at it after my holiday.
Maybe you can't access Nim directory from user account because it has wrong
permissions? And also maybe you have another Nim installed?
The problem with installing seems to have to do with executables not in correct
bins.
I can go through the install process off the website, and compile the
executables in the **nim-0.17.0** directory, created by untarring the tarball.
Notes about installation from source
Can we get a bug report for (6)?
I've been translating various versions of the SSoZ I did in C++ in 2014 to Nim.
Here are a few of my observations as a newbie.
1) Nim is much less noisy to write code in, with much less syntactical
requirements to worry about (curly braces for if|for statements, etc).
2) Once I figured it out,
I cleaned up the code and added more commments. It should be much easier now to
uderstand what/why the code is doing after reading my paper.
Here is the gist location of the source code for this version.
I don't have time right at this very moment, but I will take a look at this
within the next few days and see if there are any changes I can make to get a
faster runtime. Love all your comments by the way.
Below is the Nim direct translation of the C++ code in my paper. I have
verified it on Nim 0.17 on Linux. In comparison on this same machine the Nim
code runs a bit faster for some (larger >= 10^9) test values (not
comprehensibly benchmarked yet).
I'll post it to a gist later to make it easier
OK, thanks for the feedback on your problems downloading the paper.
Can you tell me what platform you are using, and what country you're accessing
from?
I see from my Scribd stats that the paper is being downloaded so it appears to
be working for others.
I'll look at putting the paper up on
Sounds interesting, I might try doing a direct port from cpp to nim when I get
some free time.
Btw, download is indeed behind a paywall (looks like scribd offers a month free
but after that it's paid). Reading is free though.
Copy pasting from the pdf is impossible, as latex or whatever
The link I provided in my first post allows you to read/download it free from
my Scribd site. Here it is again.
[https://www.scribd.com/doc/228155369/The-Segmented-Sieve-of-Zakiya-SSoZ](https://www.scribd.com/doc/228155369/The-Segmented-Sieve-of-Zakiya-SSoZ)
I've tested it many times, and there
Can you put the paper on a link that is not behind a paywall? I am normally
pretty trained to port from different languages to different languages, but
from the paper I can't do copy paste at all.
Thanks. I'm in the process of learning enough Nim to take on this effort.
However, I would do what you were thinking, and first try a comparable direct
C++ to Nim translation, just to get something to work. But it's going to be
some time (with my time/learning curve constraints) to create
Honestly, this sounds like an interesting little project to bang out. However,
I must admit that I am a humble Web Developer and, by extension, am not well
versed in mathematics.
The best I could do is translate your C code in the linked document into Nim
and maybe make a few small changes.
Hi
I have programmed in a few languages extensively in my life, though now I
primarly use Ruby.
I just found out about Nim literlly 3 weeks ago now (mid July 2017) after
reading this article: **Nim for the discerning Rubyist**
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