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From: Julian Graham <joolean@gmail.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:43:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bc5f8210906141243l630335e0o3fb771f22e94a962@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33aa2bra6.fsf@pobox.com>

Hi Andy,

As mentioned on IRC, I bet there are ways to pitch these changes to
make them comprehensible to users.  I think you're right to ditch the
second one, but for the first and third:

>    ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid

** Guile now uses components from Gnulib for portability to a wider
variety of POSIX and non-POSIX systems.


>    ** Primitive procedures with more than 3 arguments (aka. "gsubrs") are
>    no longer implemented using the "compiled closure" mechanism.  This
>    simplifies code and reduces both the storage and run-time overhead.

** Primitive procedures accepting more than 3 arguments now execute
faster and consume less memory.


Regards,
Julian




  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-14 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-14 18:32 NEWS entries -- user-visible? Andy Wingo
2009-06-14 19:43 ` Julian Graham [this message]
2009-06-14 22:41   ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-18 20:48     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-19 17:47       ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-19 17:58         ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-19 18:08           ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-19 18:13             ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-27 22:05               ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-27 23:14                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-29 19:19                   ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-29 21:01                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-14 20:39 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-18 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès

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