From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:24:17 +0100 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] plan 9 overcommits memory? In-Reply-To: <775b8d190709062137u3e2838a9x165a69379ab2cf55@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <13426df10709061238l1e081fel101928310c9db13c@mail.gmail.com> <1189134549.6197.2.camel@ginkgo> <775b8d190709062109o1c0a64b8y55ceb79e95083ecb@mail.gmail.com> <56818661-B933-4FC2-9522-203075455287@orthanc.ca> <775b8d190709062137u3e2838a9x165a69379ab2cf55@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: be14a9bc-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 brucee wrote: > coding at home and getting something significant working > is what i meant. but by all means write to the list instead. i agree totally that it's a Good Thing to go and actually code something up, but i also think that it's a positive thing to have technical discussions out in the open. not necessarily because it's an efficient way to do things (it probably isn't), but because it keeps a useful record that people can later use to learn from. i heard someone on another list say it nice and succinctly: : FWIW, I strongly prefer to have as much of technical discussions on-list : as possible: that way they benefit future generations of SBCL hackers as : well.