Very slow compile on ext4

2010-08-29 Thread Florian Weimer
On an ext4 file system, building 04764db9b takes an awful lot of time: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 minute 38 seconds On a RAM disk on the same system, it's just: BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 8 seconds This seems to be caused by excessive fsync() calls. Are those really necessary? Or do you

Re: More urgency for CinC & CLR given Oracle's lawsuit against Google?

2010-08-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mikhail Kryshen: > CLR also infringes Oracle's patents and the only reason why Oracle is not > likely to sue Microsoft is that Microsoft could do the same to Oracle. Microsoft rescued Sun a couple of years ago with a cash injection (similar to what they did with Apple), and the companies reache

Re: Why JVM (and not .NET) is the "primary" platform for Clojure?

2009-10-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Kelvin Pompey: > The following is an interview with Rich Hickey where he answers your > question. > http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/313989/-z_programming_languages_clojure?rid=-301 Have you got another URL for this article? It seems that IDG forgot to renew idg.net.au (it's currently