Vlerq lives

The Vlerq research project, which aims to supercede Metakit one day has undergone a dramatic transformation these past weeks.

I have completely rewritten the code as a C extension for Tcl, re-using many ideas and insights but also adding some new ones, and the result has shattered many of my prior assumptions. The new code is a fraction of MK's C++ code base, about 75% C and 25% Tcl, and it looks like it is turning into an incredibly good fit for Tcl.

The big surprise for me was the enormous simplification
and speed increase which means Vlerq now outperforms MK's highly tuned code in many cases, often by a factor 2..3, and I confidently predict that this is not the end of it either.