We are
happy to announce a new edition of the Dogelog player:Dear All,
We are
happy to announce a new edition of the Dogelog player:
- Native Sorting:
Our efforts to deliver faster sorting in 100% Prolog have come to
nothing. So we decided to implement sort/2 and keysort/2 natively for
the different target platforms. This new sorting is competitive with
other Prolog systems.
- Metronome Collector:
What we hadn't taken into account was that the native sorting requires
fewer variable instantiations, which then messed up our garbage
collection trigger conditions so that garbage was left behind. We were
finally able to solve the problem with a better metronome garbage
collector.
- Lite Notebooks:
Our original idea was to replicate Knuthâs idea of literate programming
for the web. Diverting slightly from the batch processing approach, we
recently arrived at a new more online approach of lite notebooks. We
view HTML pages with a simple Prolog code embedding as pre-elements as
the primary source. These pages are amenable to any HTML tooling.
Have Fun!