So, Hannes may have been referring to optimizing the slow parts of the process in Native Boost directly instead of using an external library (if not, may I suggest it?). ��It is possible that just a few tweaks using Assembler in the process would get the speed up to an acceptable level, which would be determined by profiling the performance. ��Of course, that path requires someone on your project that can understand Assembler to get familiar with NativeBoost.
-cbc

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:
We will surely review all the different options for interacting with external libraries. Ronie is our local expert ��:-)

Currently, we have no preview of the Roassal book to share. Give us a couple of months :-)

Cheers,
Alexandre


On May 8, 2014, at 9:23 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting project, Alexandre!
>
> On 5/6/14, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Kilon for your nice words.
>> Currently, AstroCloud is a bit slow. For example, loading this image takes
>> much more than it should. For now, speed is not our priority. AstroCloud has
>> to be fast and we will make it fast. Probably relying on external library is
>> the way to go.
>
> I assume you consider or have considered NativeBoost as well?
>
>>
>> Just to give a bit more context about why we are doing AstroCloud. ALMA is
>> the largest observatory on Earth, making it the largest astronomical project
>> in existence (http://www.almaobservatory.org). This is what humanity has
>> best to detect life outside Earth.
>> ALMA is made of 66 high-precision antenas making it possible to see deep in
>> the universe. Unfortunately, there is no good software to process these
>> immensely complex pictures. Some tool suite naturally exist, but they were
>> not made for ALMA, making these existing tools largely suboptimal to process
>> complex picture of ALMA.
>> Faviola���s dream (and mine) is to produce a tool ready to be consumed by
>> astronomers to process ALMA pictures. Faviola and I are currently seeking
>> for additional resources on making this happen.
>
>
>> Regarding your help about documenting Roassal. It is very welcome! In one of
>> my previous post, I said that 2014 will be the year of documenting Roassal.
>> A book is on its way.
>
>
>> We will need people to review it. So thanks!
>
> Preview of part of it on line?
>
>
> Regards
> Hannes
>
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