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When is the next Arc-version coming out PG?
8 points by globalrev 6011 days ago | 15 comments
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12 points by pg 6009 days ago | link

There's no preplanned development schedule. When there's an essay I want to write, I write it; when I want to work on Arc, I work on it-- and when there's a significant amount of new stuff, I make a new release.

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8 points by treef 6009 days ago | link

You don't have to work on it but we still would like some direction from you, like thoughts on anarki and the new editions that are added by the community.

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7 points by pg 6007 days ago | link

The main thing I wish someone would write is a profiler that (a) had sufficiently low overhead that it could run in production code and (b) could be installed without huge changes to ac.scm and/or the underlying MzScheme.

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4 points by almkglor 6007 days ago | link

Oof. Tough. I and raymyers did some work back on a profiler when we were optimizing treeparse, but it didn't quite work well in my use-case.

Certainly it seems to involve deeper hackery skills than I seem to have right now ^^.

As an aside, it might be slightly easier to actually insert profiling code in arc2c. Each function has its own ID number in arc2c and all we need is some sort of index from ID number to original function name (given that a function in arc2c may be split by CPS conversion, so a function with a name may end up being split into several functions),

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2 points by almkglor 6009 days ago | link

> You don't have to work on it but we still would like some direction from you, like thoughts on anarki and the new editions that are added by the community.

Hear! Hear!

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3 points by tung 6008 days ago | link

Good to see you're still around. Things were getting scary there for a while.

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11 points by cchooper 6010 days ago | link

It would be really nice just to know what's going on, even if the answer is "Not for a long time because..."

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10 points by almkglor 6011 days ago | link

cough hundred-year language cough

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10 points by absz 6011 days ago | link

I had been under the impression that it was supposed to last for one hundred years, not languish for one hundred years, but I suppose I might have misread something :/

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12 points by babblefrog 6010 days ago | link

PG just got married. I'm guessing he has been a tad busy ;-)

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4 points by jmatt 6009 days ago | link

This question seems fair. It's PG's own fault for not telling anyone he's getting married.

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2 points by cchooper 6010 days ago | link

I had no idea. Good luck to him.

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1 point by almkglor 6010 days ago | link

Seriously? Is he the recent reddit alien then?

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1 point by antiismist 6009 days ago | link

I didn't see the alien, but it was one of the reddit cofounders who broke the news, so it is likely.

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5 points by lojic 6011 days ago | link

I guess you're new, huh? :)

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