Can /my/ AI help me with pascal coding?

[MathMan]

The pascal based core-math implementation has started: https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-core-math

This is the status: https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-core-math/blob/main/tasklist.md

I will need help to validate this benchmark: https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-core-math/blob/main/src/tests/BenchmarkFPC.pas

Treat it as a “work in progress”. It may contain bugs and incorrect benchmarking.

It runs well on the free account of GitHub codespace.

I only had a cursory look at it so far. Going through this will take some time, for me mere human 

I'm impressed by some of the speedups reported - I had expected speedups, but lower actually.

By "need help to validate the benchmark" you mean running it on different machines, or actually take a deep look at the implementation? If former it would be good to know on which hardware it was run so far.

By "it runs well ..." you mean it can be compiled and executed, or it passed the test? <= no longer relevant, I just read through 'tasklist.md'

[schuler]

@domaz,

1) ZSTD - it would be nice to have a fast compressor in pure Pascal:
https://github.com/facebook/zstd

What about https://github.com/DenisAnisimov/ZSTD.pas ?

[schuler]

@domaz,

2) BZ2 - it's the last popular compressor we don't have in pure Pascal. We have a decompressor but not compressor.
https://github.com/libarchive/bzip2

I have not properly tested:
https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-bzip2

[domasz]

What about https://github.com/DenisAnisimov/ZSTD.pas ?

This is just a wrapper around a DLL but don't do ZSTD. I found one and I'm testing it. Looks fine so far.

I have not properly tested:
https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-bzip2

Thank you! Works great!


How about some multimedia? Like mp3 encoder?
https://lame.sourceforge.io/
Or maybe webp?
https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/
Or maybe something AI, your specialty?
https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn/

Generally speaking we, Pascalers, need a lot of DLLs to do many advanced things because the libraries are written in C/C++. And DLLs are a problem because FPC can compile to 32 bit, 64 bit, Windows, Linux, MacOS and each of these would require a new DLL.

[schuler]

Making a list of suggestions so far:
* mathman: core-math 32 bits (coded and tested on X86_64) -> https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-core-math
* mathman: core-math 64 bits (coded)
* domaz: bzip2 (coded - not tested) -> https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-bzip2
* cdbc: Sqlite3 (in progress) -> https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-sqlite3
* domaz: https://lame.sourceforge.io/
* domaz: https://github.com/webmproject/libwebp/
* domaz: https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn/

Any other suggestions?

[domasz]

+1 vote for Sqlite3

[schuler]

pas-sqlite3 coding has started:

@cdbc and @domasz:

https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-sqlite3
https://github.com/joaopauloschuler/pas-sqlite3/pull/1

[440bx]

Any other suggestions?

I would love to see the Zydis dis-assembler ported to Pascal.

[domasz]

pas-sqlite3 coding has started:

Great, thanks!

Just translate the whole Github to Pascal

[cdbc]

Hi Joao
Wow, how COOL is that then, I've just downloaded a snapshot for testing \o/\ö/\o/
Great work mate and thanks from me too 
Regards Benny

[schuler]

@cdbc,

I've just downloaded a snapshot for testing

It is too early for testing. AI is still coding.

You've read my mind: I was thinking that I will need help with testing... Many thanks!

[Thaddy]

@schuler

Let A.I code windows compatibility too...
(passqlite3os)
BTW: this should not be necessary since FPC has opaque functions for that in system? I mean fpopen and consorts..., really? (system.assign, system.rewrite, system.reset, system.close, system.flush) fpopen and family are one level too deep and is taken care of in system? Maybe the model did not see that 

It should also see the filemode properly, so filemode :=2 means it also works open read/write, no reset for reading.
(Or have I just defeated this particular A.I. system?)

It is probably just a definition issue, rules feeding.
Sqlite3 should compile cleanly without platform specifics, that is how it is designed. It would be nice if the Pascal version adheres to that.

At first sight I can't flaw the rest of the code. (early days)

Regards, Joao,

Thaddy

[schuler]

Or have I just defeated this particular A.I. system?

Probably ... 

I'll eventually FUP the other topics.

[440bx]

@schuler,

Since you asked for suggestions, here are a couple more,

Port QBE (Quick Back End) and PCL (Portable Code Language) to FPC. 

Ports of these could be used to add reasonably good optimizations to FPC as well as enable the compiler to produce both, DWARF and PDB debugging symbols (what PCL produces.)

It would be rather nice to have those back ends available for FPC, among other things it would also open the door to using FPC as a compiler development tool.

[schuler]

@440bx,

Port QBE (Quick Back End) and PCL (Portable Code Language) to FPC.

I will give consideration to it.

Wondering what are the URLs?
* https://c9x.me/compile/
* PCL?