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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:12:12 +0100
From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno?
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On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:52:35PM -0800, David Leimbach wrote:
> On 12/13/05, Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:56:19PM +0000, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> > > > when Inferno is jitting, it doesn't
> > > > insert bounds checks on array references, so it can crash easily too.
> > >
> > > as it happens, we've added those checks.  ok, ok, they're currently
> > wierdly optional,
> > > and i'd need to check which jits have had them added so far,
> > > but probably the default will change once we've a better idea of the
> > cost.
> > > it saves a lot of unpleasantness.
> > >
> >
> >
> > What's about Ocaml-ports to Plan9?
> >
> > Would be fine to have it as a development tool. :)
> > (IMHO it's necessary to have it on each platform.)
> >
> >
> > Ciao,
> >    Oliver
> 
> 
> 
> Use google.. I think Andrey did this already
[...]

OK, I didn't expected it, so I didn't looked for it.

But it's good that this job was done. :)

So... then there is no obvious reason, not to use Plan9. ;-)

(Are there non-obvious ones?)

Ciao,
   Oliver