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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:49:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k539xo5u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m33aa2bra6.fsf@pobox.com

Hello,

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> Specifically, I am going to remove the following NEWS entries, which are
> great stuff but thankfully invisible to the user:
>
>     ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid
>
>     ** Primitive procedures (aka. "subrs") are now stored in double cells
>     This removes the subr table and simplifies the code.
>
>     ** 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.

I agree with removing the two last entries (I had been overzealous ;-)),
but maybe not the first as explained in another message.

Thanks,
Ludo'.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 20:49 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
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 [this message]

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