From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15498 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2003 22:35:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15213 invoked from network); 16 Jul 2003 22:35:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sashimi.wasabisystems.com) (144.134.89.245) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Jul 2003 22:35:15 -0000 Received: by sashimi.wasabisystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A9BAD3660E; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:35:07 +1000 (EST) To: Doug Evans Cc: cgen@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: guile 1.6.4 a bit faster? References: <200307160026.RAA22246@casey.transmeta.com> <87ptkbvv6j.fsf@sashimi.wasabisystems.com> <16149.29891.38503.939572@casey.transmeta.com> From: Ben Elliston Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:13:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <16149.29891.38503.939572@casey.transmeta.com> Message-ID: <87k7airuel.fsf@sashimi.wasabisystems.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-q3/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 Doug Evans writes: > It cost nothing to have the support. > If it bitrots let me fix it. That's not true. It was costing something, because there were kludges in CGEN to handle differing Scheme syntax supported by Guile and Hobbit. It also made the Makefiles slightly more complex and, at the time, I opted to remove it for clarity. > And the fun factor was just way too huge, which was the whole point > of cgen. After several miserable years on (pre-egcs) gcc, I > desparately needed to rediscover a joy of hacking. I don't disagree :-) > The cynic in me wonders if there was some internal political reason > for its removal. Where have I heard that before? No, it was just me trying to get my head around CGEN at the time and the simpler, the better. Ben