Develonizer

I have a problem with todo lists, I have the attention span of a turnip thus there a blessing and a curse, as I get excited and put a bunch of stuff on said list then promptly forget that there was a list at all. So I’m going to start making sunday the ‘clean up your todo list’ day. The hope is that come monday I’ll have a list that more accurately describes what really should be done for the week, hope being the operative word. So here goes:

The first ‘left-over task that I’m going to tackle today is to talk about my little side project, euler_bench, a little attempt at the little benchmarker that could. The initial goal was to build up something that would show how much progress the Rakudo project has made. Because it was easy we started off by using the Project Euler problem set. Because of this the current code is completely tied to the way that we started to organize around the euler problems.

This is not the worst thing in the world but since then it’s ballooned a bit in scope and now I would like to really re-do most of the back-end stuff to be portable, thus allowing the ability to compare anything to anything else. You know, the same problem that any quick prototype has, it works really well for one thing, but speed was traded for flexability, now its time to really build the project. All good lessons learned, and here’s where you come in.

Because the project is now at a point where planning is involved, if you have feature requests jump in. If you have any desire to play along feel free to grab a fork (its on github for just this reason). This has been the project that I’ve been working on at the weekly PDX Thursday Hackathon, so you can join in there too if you so desire.

So its not the best post, but it’s good enough to check the box in hiveminder. Off to check something else off too.

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benh~