The problem is not the processor, is the language and the missing of a REPL! :-)
Back to Lisp port?! :-) Alexandre Rademaker http://arademaker.github.com On 14/03/2012, at 08:16, Jim Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:38:30 PM UTC-7, John Wiegley wrote: > I tried to go to bed, failed, got out of the bed at 7am, crawled downstairs, > implemented select queries, came back up and crashed. I think it took about 3 > hours to implement, which shows you how well structured Ledger has become > internally that I was able to create this feature almost entirely within a > single file (select.cc), not having to munge any of the rest of the code. > > If anything, what slows me down is C++ compile times, since it takes 2-3 > minutes to build after every header file change, generally. I'm looking > forward to upgrading my 8-core Mac Pro to the Ivy Bridge platform sometime in > the next year. > > BTW - My company (boostpro.com) does C++ consulting services, if anyone is > ever looking to hire a mad coder. ;) > > John > > Well that's pretty amazing (on multiple counts). I'm going to go and build > the latest branch of next and play around with select, it looks as though it's > an effective replacement to a number of aggregating shell+awk scripts I > currently use. > > As a random aside, maybe you'd be interesting in looking at > http://golang.org/, I > recall that of the reasons authors cited for writing yet another programming > language > is that they were sick of the multi-hour C++ recompile times! > > Jim >
