For St. Valentine's Day, we have released RPerl v1.6, with support for a number of new features:
- Two Dimensional Arrays
- Logical Ops
- Uncompile Mode
- Mandelbrot app via MathPerl
As always, the latest official release may be found on CPAN:
https://metacpan.org/release/RPerl
Thanks to our first grant from The Perl Foundation, we have released the first partial draft of the new book Learning RPerl, available on either CPAN or directly on the RPerl website:
http://rperl.org/learning_rperl.html
NOW A CALL TO ACTION!
Please take a moment to click the following link and leave a comment, this counts as your vote for RPerl to receive the next round of funding from The Perl Foundation:
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/02/grant-proposal-rperl-user-docu-1.html
The deadline is only 2 days from now, Weds Feb 17, thanks so much for your support!
Perling,
~ Will the Chill
On behalf of the entire community, I extend the deepest thanks for your ongoing ethical integrity and generosity in cutting one final January release.
If there's anything the web and crowdfunding have taught us, it is that nothing ever really dies, so I suspect this saga is far from over.
Happy Holidays! :-)
Perling,
~ Will the Chill
irc.perl.org #perl11 willthechill
william DOT braswell AT autoparallel DOT com
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After watching the video linked above, you'll want to head over to Kickstarter:
http://tinyurl.com/RPerlKickstarter1
Thanks in advance for your financial support, it is critical to the future of RPerl's performance future!
Perling,
~ Will the Chill
Thank you for your interest in RPerl!
To answer your question, the TPF grant requests are different than the Kickstarter.
Specifically, there are 3 places that may be confusing:
1. Operators
The Kickstarter page states it will be used to implement "Different Operators Than TPF Grant Proposal If Approved". There are tons of operators in Perl 5, more than enough to fill a dozen grant requests. No double-dipping (paid twice for one job) occurs.
2. Benchmarks
The Kickstarter page states it will be used to implement a "Different Benchmark Than TPF Grant Proposal If Approved". There are about 15 benchmark algorithms listed on the Alioth website, again more than enough for a dozen grant requests. No double-dipping occurs.
3. Medium-Magic Support
If we reach $75K on Kickstarter, then I will be personally funded to work on the many different aspects of supporting medium-magic code. One sub-component of this would be the medium-magic grammar, as described in the TPF grant proposal by Paul Bennett. It is very, very unlikely we will reach $75K this round on Kickstarter, but even if we do then that money would go to me, whereas the TPF money would go to Paul Bennett, so you would have 2 guys working in cooperation to complete the software instead of just 1. No double-dipping occurs.
Does that satisfactorily answer your question?
Thanks,
~ Will
I am proud to announce the launch of our next Kickstarter campaign.
We immediately reached our minimum of $1,701; now our goal is to reach $20K in the next 9 days. We can do it... WITH YOUR HELP!
STEP 1: Make a generous pledge.
STEP 2: Get your friends to match your pledge.
STEP 3: Get your boss to double your pledge.
STEP 4: Go back and increase your pledge.
STEP 5: PERL WILL BE THE FASTEST LANGUAGE EVER.
Thanks so much for your continued support of RPerl!
Perling,
~ Will the Chill
RPerl v1.1, codename 'Jupiter', has been released to CPAN!
Jupiter supports fully-automated compiling of the long-awaited N-body application software, which is a solar system simulator used by the Alioth Benchmark Game to rank programming languages by speed.
RPerl and the new PhysicsPerl software suite enable the N-body app to run at the speed of C++, dropping from over 19 minutes runtime to barely 13 seconds!
For now, see the INSTALL notes file for instructions on running N-body using RPerl & PhysicsPerl.
Also, take a look at the pre-release user documentation, Learning RPerl!
Please visit us on IRC for real-time tech support:
irc.perl.org
#perl11
After over 2.5 years of work, I'm very proud to (finally) announce the full release of RPerl v1.0 on CPAN!
Installation should now be as simple as:
$ cpan RPerl
OR
$ cpanm RPerl
For more information about install options, please see:
https://github.com/wbraswell/rperl/blob/master/INSTALL
As outlined in step 3 of the install notes file, we can now automatically compile our test program and see speed improvements of approximately 170x to 350x, depending on your system.
As usual, the RPerl technical team is in #perl11 on irc.perl.org so don't hesitate to reach out if you need help or have any questions. Let the bug reports begin! :-)
We've come a long way, and we've got a long way to go yet, this is just barely the beginning!
Perling,
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