Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 2:06 PM + 2/19/03, Peter Haworth wrote:
> >On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:56:25 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >> I got clarification. The sequence is:
> >>
> >> 1) Search for method of the matching name in inheritance tree
> >> 2) if #1 fails, search for an AUTO
> "The new version must be better because our gazillion dollar marketing
> campaign said so. (We didn't really *fix* anything.)
The part I found interesting was the part about elimination of the message.
Perceived slowness is also important.
remove the "Garbage collecting"
message which people perceive as slowing Emacs down and tell them
that it had been sped up. It is, somehow, permissible for a
program to take a lot of time doing any other task than
administrative duties like garbage collection.
Mark-Jas
> > Joshua N Pritikin writes:
> > : http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2000/10/04/stackless-intro.html
> >
> > Perl 5 is already stackless in that sense, though we never implemented
> > continuations. The main impetus for going stackless was to make it
> > possible to implement a Forth-styl
