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13:18:11 beach So Quaviver calls ALEXANDRIA:SYMBOLICATE at compile time, and ALEXANDRIA:SYMBOLICATE calls REPLACE which is a sequence function. I currently import the sequence functions from the host, thinking they would be used only on lists, but in this case, REPLACE is called on a vector.

13:18:12 beach Unfortunately, this is not a host vector but a Regalia vector, and so the host REPLACE fails. I think the thing to do is to define REPLACE just for this case. I can't see myself loading the sequence functions before Quaviver. At least not yet.

13:19:50 beach But I am mainly working on Buoy at the moment.

13:20:53 beach Interestingly, the functions I defined in the simulated floating-point system are currently not precise enough for creating the tables of the core-math code, so I am not working to improve the precision of the functions in the simulated floating-point system.

13:21:50 beach I could do that by just increasing the number of iterations and things like that, but then it would be very slow. So I am defining a custom floating-point representation that will be faster to compute with.

16:02:33 yitzi beach: I will probably get rid of alexandria dependence in Quaviver eventually.

16:03:15 yitzi I have a branch that does that incidently now

16:03:58 yitzi It still uses REPLACE though

16:04:23 beach I see. It uses REPLACE at compile time still?

16:05:35 yitzi Yes. I can explore other options if it a significand problem.

16:06:15 beach Thanks for the offer. I'll first see what I can do. Also, any use of REPLACE on a list is not a problem.

16:06:40 yitzi Its in a string.

16:06:57 beach I see.

16:07:45 yitzi Its making symbol names for math functions with arithmetics sizes and bases.

16:08:17 beach Yes, I see.

16:08:40 yitzi I suppose I could intern these symbols in a list instead and just lookup the values

16:09:05 beach I'll let you know whether that might be advantageous.

16:09:15 beach Right now, I don't think you should do anything.

16:09:31 yitzi ok

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