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: Three small benefits of a new computer Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:05:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87wsazua3d.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 1236720789 3721 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2009 21:33:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development To: Neil Jerram Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 10 22:34:25 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 1Lh9aK-0008Pe-Vw for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:34:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48309 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lh9Yz-00065F-8X for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lh9Yv-00063X-7v for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lh9Yu-00062i-N6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56646 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lh9Yt-00062Z-Sn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:54262 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh9Yt-0008Ke-L5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1610A0B9A; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [79.156.146.153]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ED65BA0B99; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87wsazua3d.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:45:58 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F4AB8FAA-0DBA-11DE-8CDC-CFA5EBB1AA3C-02397024!a-sasl-fastnet.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:8255 Archived-At: Hey, On Sun 08 Mar 2009 19:45, Neil Jerram writes: > 1. It has a MIPS processor, so I'll be regularly building with that > now - which is good for a bit of non-Intel and big-endian variety. That's great! > 2. It's a bit slow... which is good for not forgetting about > performance. :-) Definitely something to keep at the forefront of our minds. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/