* Re: 38/40: gnu: Add ocaml-spawn.
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@ 2019-02-06 9:32 ` Christopher Baines
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From: Christopher Baines @ 2019-02-06 9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Julien Lepiller; +Cc: guix-devel
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guix-commits@gnu.org writes:
> + (description
> + "Spawn is a small library exposing only one functionality: spawning sub-process.
> +
> +It has three main goals:
> +
> +@itemize
> +@item provide missing features of Unix.create_process such as providing a
> +working directory,
> +@item provide better errors when a system call fails in the
> +sub-process. For instance if a command is not found, you get a proper
> +@code{Unix.Unix_error} exception,
> +@item improve performances by using vfork when available. It is often
> +claimed that nowadays fork is as fast as vfork, however in practice
> +fork takes time proportional to the process memory while vfork is
> +constant time. In application using a lot of memory, vfork can be
> +thousands of times faster than fork.")
> + (license license:asl2.0)))
Just to let you know, I pushed a small change to the description
straight to master (as [1]) as I was having problems with guix package -s.
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* Re: 35/40: gnu: Add ocaml-splittable-random.
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@ 2019-02-06 9:46 ` Christopher Baines
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From: Christopher Baines @ 2019-02-06 9:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Julien Lepiller; +Cc: guix-devel
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guix-commits@gnu.org writes:
> + (description "This package provides a splittable pseudo-random number generator
> +(@defn{PRNG}) functions like a PRNG that can be used as a stream of random
> +values; it can also be split to produce a second, independent stream of
> +random values.
> +
> +This library implements a splittable pseudo-random number generator that sacrifices
> +cryptographic-quality randomness in favor of performance.")
> + (license license:asl2.0)))
I was seeing an error relating to @defn, so I've pushed a change to this
description to master [1]. I don't know much about texinfo though, so it
would be good if someone could take a look at this.
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