Re: Information about Perl 6 internals

2018-09-21 Thread Fernando Santagata
Thank you for answering, Your digression about PDL was very much appreciated. About the module I'm writing, the raw interface to the library is almost complete, but I need more time to work on the high level interface and right now I have little time, due to $job, so don't hold your breath :-)

Re: Information about Perl 6 internals

2018-09-21 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 20 Sep 2018, at 18:45, Curt Tilmes wrote: >> Since I'm here :-) will Perl 6 ever support a native type mirroring the >> __float128 quadruple-precision type provided by gcc? >> > I'll wager that the answer to "ever support" is probably yes, as long as > somebody wants it. We're just

Re: Information about Perl 6 internals

2018-09-20 Thread Curt Tilmes
I haven't seen many responses to this yet. I am by no means a MoarVM/NQP/Rakudo internals expert, speaking only as a developer on top of those things, not inside them. On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 8:12 AM Fernando Santagata < nando.santag...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm developing an interface to

Information about Perl 6 internals

2018-09-16 Thread Fernando Santagata
Hello, I'm developing an interface to libfftw3 (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West). The library provides a function to allocate SIMD-aligned memory (Single Instruction Multiple Data), in order to maximize access speed to data. Before I start to investigate a way to blandish a CArray into