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Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:49:49 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Specifically, I am going to remove the following NEWS entries, which are
> great stuff but thankfully invisible to the user:
>
>     ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid
>
>     ** Primitive procedures (aka. "subrs") are now stored in double cells
>     This removes the subr table and simplifies the code.
>
>     ** Primitive procedures with more than 3 arguments (aka. "gsubrs") are
>     no longer implemented using the "compiled closure" mechanism.  This
>     simplifies code and reduces both the storage and run-time overhead.

I agree with removing the two last entries (I had been overzealous ;-)),
but maybe not the first as explained in another message.

Thanks,
Ludo'.





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