FAST 1.1 reference implementation

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Imported from previous forum

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Hi,

Do we have any fast 1.1 reference implementation?
I have seen that FAST 1.0 kit, but have not seen one for fast 1.1.
It will be great help, if someone can send me the links to the fast 1.1 reference implementation, assuming one exists, already.

Also, looking at the fast 1.0 reference implementation (in C), the ARCA example did not work.

Encoding worked without trouble, but while decoding, I was getting the following error.

arca -D -V <arca.fast >arca2.dat
error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3 missing value:
error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3 missing value:
fatal: d0 unknown type

Thanks
-Gangadharan

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There’s no public 1.1 implementation available as of yet.

In which environment did you try to run the 1.0 arca sample?

/Rolf

Hi,

Do we have any fast 1.1 reference implementation? I have seen that FAST
1.0 kit, but have not seen one for fast 1.1. It will be great help, if
someone can send me the links to the fast 1.1 reference implementation,
assuming one exists, already.

Also, looking at the fast 1.0 reference implementation (in C), the ARCA
example did not work.

Encoding worked without trouble, but while decoding, I was getting the
following error.

arca -D -V <arca.fast >arca2.dat error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3
missing value: error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3 missing value:
fatal: d0 unknown type

Thanks -Gangadharan

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Thanks for the quick response.
I was trying to run the arca example on Open VMS V7.3-2 (HP Alpha server). By the way, the encoder.c, decoder.c example provided worked just fine. Trouble was with the ARCA examples specifically.

There’s no public 1.1 implementation available as of yet.

In which environment did you try to run the 1.0 arca sample?

/Rolf

Hi,

Do we have any fast 1.1 reference implementation? I have seen
that FAST

  1. kit, but have not seen one for fast 1.1. It will be great help, if
    someone can send me the links to the fast 1.1 reference
    implementation, assuming one exists, already.

Also, looking at the fast 1.0 reference implementation (in C), the
ARCA example did not work.

Encoding worked without trouble, but while decoding, I was getting the
following error.

arca -D -V <arca.fast >arca2.dat error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3
missing value: error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3 missing value:
fatal: d0 unknown type

Thanks -Gangadharan

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OK, there may be some portability problem with the arca code.
It has been tested on Windows, Linux, and Solaris, but I
haven’t heard of anyone that have tried it out on VMS before.

/Rolf

Thanks for the quick response. I was trying to run the arca
example on Open VMS V7.3-2 (HP Alpha server). By the way, the
encoder.c, decoder.c example provided worked just fine.
Trouble was with the ARCA examples specifically.

There’s no public 1.1 implementation available as of yet.
In which environment did you try to run the 1.0 arca sample?
/Rolf

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There’s no public 1.1 implementation available as of yet.

/Rolf

Is there a projected date when the 1.1 reference code will be made public?

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I’m not convinced there will be a reference implementation
of FAST 1.1.

There are several implementations being developed, but any of
these code bases must undergo considerable review and testing
in order to pass as a “reference”.

My guess is that we will focus more on reference data sets
that can be used to test an implementation for compliance.

/Rolf

There’s no public 1.1 implementation available as of yet.

/Rolf

Is there a projected date when the 1.1 reference code will be
made public?

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[ original email was from Scott McCaskill - smccaskill@zonetrading.com ]
> My guess is that we will focus more on reference data sets that can be

used to test an implementation for compliance.

That would be very useful. Any idea when we might see something like that?

–Scott

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[ original email was from John Unwin - john@unwin.co.uk ]
Rolf,
Is there any interest collaboration in producing a 1.1 reference implementation, we would certainly be interested in contributing to that in terms of development.
John

There’s no public 1.1 implementation available as of yet.

In which environment did you try to run the 1.0 arca sample?

/Rolf

Hi,

Do we have any fast 1.1 reference implementation? I have seen
that FAST

  1. kit, but have not seen one for fast 1.1. It will be great help, if
    someone can send me the links to the fast 1.1 reference
    implementation, assuming one exists, already.

Also, looking at the fast 1.0 reference implementation (in C), the
ARCA example did not work.

Encoding worked without trouble, but while decoding, I was getting the
following error.

arca -D -V <arca.fast >arca2.dat error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3
missing value: error: [fast_decode_u32] U32|NONE|0|3 missing value:
fatal: d0 unknown type

Thanks -Gangadharan

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John,

there are some efforts underway, but we (Pantor) are not
involved in any such project just now. We decided not to
publish our 1.1 implementation and instead focus on our
commercial projects in the short term.

We will definitely try to help as much as time permits
and I’m waiting for the other projects to release their
code.

Best,
Rolf

Rolf, Is there any interest collaboration in producing a 1.1
reference implementation, we would certainly be interested
in contributing to that in terms of development. John