GSoC Mid-term Results and Achievements

By the mid-term we succeeded in fulfilling most of the goals of the overall program. The core Monte Carlo routines are now implemented in C. They were significantly restructured to allow better readability and run around 35% percent faster as of late. There are still areas in want of improvement but the general feel of the code is a lot better. The code can be found here and will be merged in to the main fork some time soon. The new changes hopefully will let us expand the code with new physics easily. This effectively does the job described in the GSoC proposal, however there are still areas where improvements will need to be done. These include error handling, logging, nicer interfaces, code and user documentation. As far as improving the performance is concerned in my opinion we are close to reaching a dead-end. The code is currently very basic and uses mostly atomic operations. If further improvement in terms of program running time is wanted smarter algorithms will need to be developed. Although currently I do not have a clear idea of what that would have to be.