I'm out in Oklahoma City working on the
ICFP Contest. This years
task is amazing, and as usual, massive and complex.
So, if you've been talking to me the last couple days, you'll know that was stuck in the Chicago Airport from Wednesday 3pm to Friday 11am due to bad weather and even worse management by American Airlines.
That having been said, aside from being delayed on arrival and travel fatigued, I was still fairly productive yesterday. I now have a mostly working RNA interpreter that is drawing primitives from the RNA, and actually does a few other neat things like do
ruby2rna and
rna2ppmThe problem of course, is that I lack a complete RNA dump to shake any bugs out of the system and start seeing if we're going to have a performance nightmare. Caleb, Ed, and James have the
dna2rna interpreter built, but are optimizing it because our language of choice, Ruby, is once again, far too slow to allow us to be naive.
This morning I'll be testing and optimizing the image processing code from the partial RNA dumps we have and trying to build some more simple tests for it. Hopefully, we'll figure out what's wrong in the
dna2rna code, and get a dump later this afternoon. If that happens, we can start saving Endo!
