[V4RB] Macho VComponents folder is 22mb???

[Shaun Wexler]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 3:35 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> Shaun have NDA with Paradigma and access to our CVS
>
> Shaun is very cool C++ / ObjC developer and crazy on speed,
> even more than me :-)

I feel the need to defend myself against that statement!  I am a  
devout C/ObjC and AltiVec/ppc-asm developer, and think that "C is to C+ 
+, like brain is to cancer".  I'm certainly crazy about maximizing  
execution speed of code.  Oh, and in my youth I was rather cool, and I  
have developed an extremely-cool app for pro sound engineers (and it's  
elegant and blazingly fast)... but these days I don't think I'm  
sufficiently "cool" anymore.  ;)

> He use Valentina sources to combine them in different way
> to tease Valentina :-)
>
> We all hope that his experiments will give cool additional into main
> Valentina CVS.
>
> Shaun already have push us to idea use ICU from OSX. So if you  
> remember in
> June I have spend about 2 weeks re-writing engine to use only C- 
> methods from
> ICU, instead of C++.

Just to clarify, when I created VX and first built it, the existing  
kernel and C++ calls into ICU worked just fine.  Ruslan later  
streamlined and improved the code to use C calls, removing the C++  
wrapper overhead of the OO ICU classes, to provide future  
compatibility with Apple's ICU, plus for efficiency.

> Also there are ideas improve Valentina using SSE for Intel CPU, and  
> may be
> AltiVec for PPC. Multi-threading of engine, and others..

I have an idea how to further improve the kernel for its string  
handling, but it's truly a v3.0 job, and probably better to hit the 64- 
bit path at the same time, because it's a radical change and will  
result in some new API, but most will be the same.  However to support  
true 64-bit app's and kernel, it's wise to extend the record handling  
capacity of the database to > 32 bits of indices, TBD.

-- 
Shaun Wexler
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