Re: Thoughts on a New Dylan Ecosystem

Carl has brought up a couple of issues to me privately that I hadn't
addressed here.  I'll leave some for him to discuss, but one really
important one is our 64 bit story.

This ties back into general issues with our numerics as well.

Running Dylan on a 32 bit platform is pretty limiting due to the range of
<integer>.

Notably, I have these issues with it:


   - Timing operations in nanoseconds are difficult.
   - File routines involving seeking within a file.
   - Simple Random's <random> support is for <integer> only, so highly
   limited.

It isn't a great solution to have to use <double-integer> as that is
somewhat awkward, expensive, and isn't fully functional.

Having a much improved story in this area is very important.

 - Bruce




On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Bruce Mitchener
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I've written a blog post:
>
>     http://dylanfoundry.org/2013/11/12/thoughts-on-a-new-dylan-ecosystem/
>
> I've posted it to Reddit:
>
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qg3uw/thoughts_on_a_new_dylan_ecosystem/
>
> and on Lobste.rs:
>
>    https://lobste.rs/s/nj6i27/thoughts_on_a_new_dylan_ecosystem
>
> Discussion, comments, etc are welcome!
>
>  - Bruce
>
>

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