On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com>wrote:
> On 2012-08-10, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Forgive me for being blunt, but this isn't constructive.
>
> Ha ha, touche. The difference is that RJF isn't someone who just
> wandered in off the street, but who himself has a long history of
> trolling.
>
Perhaps, but I don't think he really cared about *who*, but more about
*why*. Finding out when (unknown) code was removed is much harder than
finding when new code was added.
And we have made changes to get small gains in speed, like the conversion
from memq to member that churned a huge number of files when it could have
been much more easily by just changing memq from a function to a macro.
And based on my experience, run_testsuite(time=true) now seems to spend
quite a bit of time doing numerical evaluation instead of symbolic. But
rtest_integrate, which seems to take the longest, presumably does a huge
amount of symbolic work. Not sure what that all means in terms of the
propery list hack.
Ray