[maemo-developers] Summer of Code update?

[From: Mathieu Blondel]

Hi,

quim.gil at nokia.com wrote:
>
> So please, could the students and mentors send a brief update about 
> the status of their projects?
>
I am working on the Japanese/Chinese handwriting recognition project. 
This project relies on Tomoe. So far this is what I have done :

- Contributed to the stroke-editor (mainly improved interface)
- Made the gucharmap dependency optional in the build process of tomoe
- Made debian packages (I'll try to get them accepted upstream)
- Tested tomoe successfully on the N800 (contact me and I'll send you 
the debian packages). Drawing with the stylus is very convenient however 
tomoe is currently too slow on the device.
- Profiled tomoe with oprofile. The bottlenecks comes from two different 
things : 1) loading of a large xml file into memory and 2) calculation 
of comparision between characters

I am now working on improving those two problems.

To improve comparision calculation, I'll make tomoe compare the input 
with only high priority characters instead of all characters. High 
priority characters will be characters which have a number of strokes 
closed to the number of strokes of the input. Another possibility is to 
rewrite critical portions of the code in ARM assembly in order to make 
use of SIMD instructions.

To improve dictionary loading, I'll introduce a new binary file format. 
I'll write a script to convert the XML file to this binary format and 
I'll write the dictionary backend that will read this format.

Cheers,

Mathieu