On 1 Apr., 17:58, Fredrik Johansson <fredrik.johans...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm proud to announce the initial release of FLINT 3.0. The FLINT 3 > series is a complete rewrite of FLINT (Fast Library for Number Theory) > from scratch, like FLINT 2.x was a complete rewrite of FLINT 1.x > before it. > > FLINT 3.0 is available as an interactive interpreter > at:http://www.flintlib.org/flint3/ > > The most significant change in FLINT 3 is that the implementation > language has been changed from C to JavaScript. With modern > JIT-compiling JavaScript engines, antiquated static languages such as > C are no longer necessary for high performance computing. Switching to > JavaScript allows us to make the transition to emerging computing > platforms such as Windows 8, tablets, mobile phones, and the cloud. > > A second major change is that the only supported coefficient ring is > double-precision floating-point numbers (with JavaScript semantics). > Exact bigints and rationals are just too slow and complicated to be > worth the trouble, and besides, you rarely need more than 16 digits of > precision anyway. Most of the scientific computing world has already > realised as much, and we anticipate that this bold move will give us a > head start of 6-8 years over the rest of the computer algebra > community. > > The FLINT 3.0 interpreter uses a Lisp-like syntax. As an example > computation, type 25 or (1 + 1) followed by ENTER.
There's still some work to be done to get it properly integrated into William's Lisp port of Sage. But so far looks very promising. -leif > Since this is a > first release, some minor bugs are still present, and the code might > not work in all web browsers. We hope to sort these issues out in the > coming years using iterative development. > > --Fredrik, on behalf of the FLINT development team -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
