From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: updated NEWS, release tomorrow Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:15:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87prc229et.fsf@gnu.org> <874otemmsf.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247685599 24519 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2009 19:19:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:19:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Neil Jerram Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 15 21:19:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRA19-0005cq-N8 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:19:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34354 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA19-0008NU-4o for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA15-0008NP-G8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA0z-0008Mc-4t for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39773 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRA0z-0008MZ-2C for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:60995 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRA0v-0004Jb-25; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:37 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D146408; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [88.17.206.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BB836405; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:19:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <874otemmsf.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:24:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 6D4ECF0E-7174-11DE-AC56-9AE02FB70C38-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8878 Archived-At: Heya, On Wed 15 Jul 2009 09:24, Neil Jerram writes: >>> I should apologize for lack of responsiveness over the last couple >>> weeks. > > Me too; I've been decamping to France for the summer. I should be > more available from now on (for a while!). All summer? I'm in France frequently. Perhaps one day we should meet up! >>> I started poking at uniform vectors, and that code is the >>> badness. It's arrays and generalized vectors and uniform vectors and >>> bitvectors and bytevectors and normal vectors &c &c, and instead of >>> there being some kind of orthogonal exposition of the types, *all of the >>> code calls each other*. It's nutty. > > On the other hand, let's not forget that it was written by some clever > people, and that (AFAIK) it works and is fast. I think more than fast it's just space-efficient. Anyway, I have something I think you'll like, just have to separate out the patches into munchable morsels. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/