Hi Bakul,
> Refactoring, code cleanup and fixing memory leaks are worthy goals.
> But that can take lots of time and volunteers.
True, but GC would just be papering over some of those cracks. :-)
Besides, without it the source will continue to suffer bit rot and
whatever the UI equivalent is when its orthogonality degrades.
Arguably, it wasn't up to having MIME added.
> > It works! Well, simpler programs work. scan(1) SEGVs, ditto
> > folder(1). But I could play around a bit, comparing it to the
> > installed nmh-git 1.7+dev.r4298-1 in /bin.
>
> This is promising! Segfaults likely point to genuine bugs.
Yes, they're definitely there to be pointed at. :-)
> > $ inst() { perf stat -e instructions "$@" |&
> > > awk '/instructions:u/ {print $1}' | tr -d ,; }
>
> Presumably this counts actual instructions executed?
Yes, perf-stat(1) and perf-list(1). It's the CPU's own count of
instructions. Limiting `perf stat' to just that with -e ensures it's
accurate instead of sampled as stat otherwise tries to measure more
things than the local hardware may allow.
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