[Bug-gnubg] gnubg on mac os x

[Olivier Baur]

Hello.

I'm wondering if porting gnubg to Mac OS X is currently planned or in 
progress ?

If not, I'm willing to do this.

I've already been able to build it (from yesterday's CVS snapshot) and 
run it in an X windowing system (works either with "XDarwin" or Apple's 
newly released "X11" X servers). Maybe I could consider release a "full 
binary download" (pre-built) version for Mac OS X users?

I'm also willing to :
- throw in multiprocessor support [as soon as I can put my hands on a 
bi-proc G4 :-) ]
- port it to a full Aqua version (ie, use Apple's GUI instead of 
X+GTK/Guile's)
- add vector-computing for use with G4 processors' built-in superscalar 
unit (known as "Velocity Engine" or "AltiVec") -- I have noticed that 
during rollouts/evaluations, the CPU would spend 70% of its time 
evaluating the neural net, which can be basically thought as a matrix 
product between the different layers, which in turn is a perfect 
candidate algorithm for vectorization and dramatic performance 
improvement

Please keep me informed if any of these projects are already being 
worked on, so I don't start working on something that's on the verge of 
being completed.

Best,

Olivier Baur.

PS: btw, great piece of software, guys! don't need no more go and buy 
me a pc + snowie!