From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Orre Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Worrying development Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:34:25 +0100 Organization: Royal Institute of Technology Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1074252865.6739.77.camel@localhost> References: <1074246064.6729.23.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074264660 1355 80.91.224.253 (16 Jan 2004 14:51:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 16 15:50:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhVJE-0005vC-00 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:50:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AhUSg-0008QQ-9i for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:56:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AhSKS-000204-1u for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AhSJZ-0001pR-PQ for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:39:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.237.222.202] (helo=smtp.nada.kth.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AhSJY-0001pC-OG for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from bari.bacon.su.se (bari.bacon.su.se [130.237.152.231]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.nada.kth.se (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i0GBct88022504 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:38:59 +0100 (MET) Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2611 On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 12:19, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > From: Roland Orre > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:41:05 +0100 > > to be able to utilize facilities which are only available there. > > which facilities are these? (could you be more specific?) The statement was not very specific and what I was thinking about was not very specific, more based upon the general expectation that a new version contains new functions (usually... now it was the opposite). The main reason, however, for me to continue with 1.7 after 1.6 is that as I've understood from Mikael Djurfeldt goops and the corresponding matrix handling are only fully supported in 1.7. There is also real pthreads support, which I've however not utilized yet, this is more like a nice future potential. The only thing which I'll be dependent on is goops support. Another nice thing with guile 1.7, as I've understood, is that the garbage collector now is utilizing Robert Strand's (Bobby Beach) old idea to have the garbage collection bits separated from the actual tags. This gives potentials for e.g. background garbage collection as a parallell process. (I was by the way working with Robert Strand at ASEA in the beginning of the 80ies when he invented this idea). Of course we also have the GMP support in 1.7, even though this is nice, I won't use it myself very much. Mostly I'm doing number crunching, statistical analysis and data base handling. Best regards Roland _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user