GerH build 2423 on-line at www.hebbut.net - bugfix release

"Ger Hobbelt" <[email protected]>
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FYI:

a new GerH build is available.

New stuff: see the ChangeLog (under the date header 2008-05-21).


This is mostly about getting the CRM script compiler into a position
where it can:

(a) parse scripts in a single pass (which should speed up large scripts)

but more importantly:

(b) can check the script for typos and other simple programmer
mistakes UP FRONT (i.e. at start-up), so you do not need to test all
the branches in the script just to find out if and where you made a
typing booboo.

The latter has happened to often to me to not bother about it and from
past experience with other languages I don't believe I'm the only one
making this sort of mistake.



Second, there's the introduction of a generic, good quality random
generator (designed by prof. Marsaglia) to ensure and classifiers
(such as Neural Net) which use a bit of random noise to settle produce
reproducible results across tests AND PLATFORMS (rand() is definitely
/non/-portable if the numbers coming out of it's derriere matter to
you in /any/ way.)


Third, there's the introduction of the 'cssmigrate <flags> (:src:)
(:dst:) ...' command intended for those folks who want to migrate from
previous releases to a new (GerH versioning system-using) CRM114 build
without the need to recreate their CSS from scratch. The range of this
command is intended to be limited to 'production quality' classifiers
only; I am not sure if we will be able to migrate old 64-bit CSS files
as the hashes MAY be different from the current version, but there's
always the option to keep GerH crm114 running with another hasher for
continued backwards compatibility (it already offers multiple hash
functions).




-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,

Ger Hobbelt

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