On 3 January 2011 13:10, Daniel Kraft <address@hidden> wrote:
was JIT or a byte-code VM approach to speed up interpretation of
loops and other stuff
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Otherwise, I also read something about attempts to make use of
multiple cores
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Or possibly it would be best to try implementing some package for
octave-forge which could provide some useful functionality?
There is another project which is just as important as all these even
if it's not as glamourous: Octave needs a GUI, IDE, black-on-white
terminal with antialiased fonts; whatever you want to call it, and it
needs an officially sanctioned one, in the same source tree as the
rest of Octave, or at least as a Mercurial subrepo.
The reason for this isn't technical, but social and aesthetic. Selling
Octave right now is difficult not due to its technical merits which
are many, but because people associate Octave with "a DOS application"
or "CLI only, and I don't know CLI". It doesn't matter if people who
believe these things about Octave are right or not. We are simply not
going be able to reach as many people as long as Octave doesn't have
an interface that more people are familiar with.