On the abundance of riches; On Friday, July 2, 2010, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > 1. Size matters even if it doesn't really matter. Seeing these numbers makes > it clear that our download will be called a behemoth and an ms style > colossus. We all know that in the end, this number is irrelevant. PLT comes > with a lot of extra stuff and that stuff is useful. But among the hacker > crowd this number can turn things against us and they influence a lot of the > rest of the world.
DrRacket comes with a surprising number of tools for instance. Should some be moved to planet? > 2. And yes, even more importantly, the connectivity graph among collects may > concern us. Why however? Collects aren't modules and it is easily possible to > work in parallel on interconnected collects. When I first started using DrScheme on a netbook with a 4gb ssd, I switched off a number of tools to make startup happen quicker. -- -- Stephen De Gabrielle stephen.degabrie...@acm.org Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
