On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Andrew Nikitin <[email protected]> wrote:
> My point is more like that using project manager to "compile" standard library
> is an empty ritual, not unlike cargo cult. The idea of transforming source 
> code
> into another, less readable form of the same source code before distribution,
> seems unnatural. I understand where it came from -- probably from the days 
> when
> reading 150k script took noticably less time than reading 20 15k scripts. I
> doubt that this is a concern these days.

While I agree that, in general, simple and straightforward is
better than complicated and slightly more efficient, I would
want to know how much time is needed to load 20 files (or 100),
before agreeing that this change would be good.

-- 
Raul
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