On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Alex Gough wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Alex Gough wrote:
ook, cool, but string_length returns an INTVAL, not an int.
Remember that people who say negative usually mean positive, they
just don't know it yet. Always look on the bright si-ide of life, de
do, de do de do
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
There's a minimum charge you're going to have to pay for the privilege of
dynamicity, or running a language not built by an organization with 20
full-time engineers dedicated to it.
Umm, this isn't really the place for it, so just a quick question:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 01:39 PM 11/9/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
Dan Sugalski:
Of course. Random question only very tangentially related to this: is
INTVAL (and thus the I registers) supposed to be big enough to hold a
pointer?
INTVAL shouldn't ever get a
On Sunday 11 November 2001 05:41 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote:
While at JAOO, Andy Hunt told me about a little trick Matsumoto is
(was?) trying out for Ruby to speed up it's garbage collection. It
goes something like this (keeping in mind I know very little about GC).
Assumtion: Most
Dan Sugalski:
# At 01:39 PM 11/9/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
# Dan Sugalski:
# # At 12:39 AM 11/9/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
# # 3. We've adopted a register machine architecture to
# # reduce push/pop stack traffic. Register save/load
# # traffic is similar, but not nearly as bad.
# #
#
Ken Fox:
# I'm finishing up my design for lexicals and I'd like to
# provide a graphical presentation. PDF is probably the
# best choice for viewing, but what is the best format for
# the source? I've been using dia, but maybe something
# like Powerpoint would be a better choice since everybody
#
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:38:28PM -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
| I'm finishing up my design for lexicals and I'd like to
| provide a graphical presentation. PDF is probably the
| best choice for viewing, but what is the best format for
| the source? I've been using dia, but maybe something
Dia is
