Re: Why shouldn't sleep(0.5) DWIM?

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:35:03PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:23:43PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Pulling out or mangling time strikes me as intensely pointless, and I don't 
> > see it happening. The socket stuff is really the only core functionality 
> > that makes any sense to pull out, and that only from an architectural 
> > standpoint.
> 
> Perhaps some of the more grossly UNIX specific things like getpwnam's
> extended family and the SysV IPC stuff?

I still say that this is wasted effort. Yes, those are grossly UNIX
specfic.  But removing them doesn't buy you much.  Rather design, say,
how to gracefully switch between native integers and bigints.  Or a
fast and stackable tie() subsystem.  Or explore various garbage
collection alternatives.

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