Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

@Shannon Hmmm Question if you don't mind. With this new discovery you made regarding FRM, could it "possibly" be good enough that you might be able to make FRM 5.0 early then? I only ask because I've been wondering for a while when you might be done with FRM completely. I remember you had done the models before hand and if I'm not incorrect you suggested you would be finish developing 6G by around November or December (I just remember it was close to the end of the year). Not unless I'm getting that confused with when you built the first 6G program.

I first have to verify that the results of the modeling runs that suggested this was true, are completely reproducible and thus accurate.  That may take me a week or two.

If that turns out to be the case, my plan is to test it by using the upgrade in some programs and observing how it works in real life compared to 4.9.  

I am not planing to upgrade OF this close to releasing it, as 4.9 is a huge upgrade and OF 5.75G is a great program.  The next OF will be based on the final version of FRM, 5.0, and I want to use 4.9 and possibly this upgrade for a while and make sure there's nothing else that can be improved before I declare 5.0 final.  

The completion of 6G is most likely to happen between October 2020 (very optimistic) and May of 2021.  That's what I'm expecting and estimating.  I'm aiming for November/December, to be sure, but there's a lot of work left to do while I still try to produce programs for profit.

Basically we have to finish developing and refining FRM, and we have to develop and build B19.  Then we have to test it, and mine it.  That means translating the script from the scripting conventions used in the Beast legacy system, to the modern skeleton script.  That will take time. At that point the 6G skeleton script should be very close to finished (90-95%) and we just have to tie up loose ends, optimize and polish.  But optimizing means a whole skeleton script optimization, for hundreds of statements... and that will take a while also.

Before I even start on all that I have to build the program I'm working on, LTU6, UMS2 and DMSI 3.3.3.  At least.  Probably others, like E4.

So, going as fast as I can, but there's a mountain of work.