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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [OSR] Ports-like package management system
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:25:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801301325.29265.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201694164-sup-1694@ausone.inria.fr>

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:00:01 Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> Users  that  consider  darcs  broken and/or unusable are not darcs users,
> they perhaps  tried  it, that's all.

So you have not personally experienced performance problems with darcs.

> IMHO  they've  applied  the  "correction  before  optimization"  principle.
> A principle that we often spread in functional programming community.

If darcs is unusably slow then its theoretical correctness is irrelevant. 
Regardless, its actual correctness is still in question because it has so few 
users that it is basically untested software.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-30 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-29 10:56 Berke Durak
2008-01-29 11:12 ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-01-29 13:11 ` Yaron Minsky
2008-01-29 14:04   ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-29 17:35   ` Berke Durak
2008-01-29 18:02     ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-29 18:10     ` Paul Pelzl
2008-01-29 22:26     ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-01-30  1:55       ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-29 22:46     ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-01-29 13:47 ` Yaron Minsky
2008-01-29 14:04   ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-29 16:00 ` Alain Frisch
2008-01-30  6:58   ` Yaron Minsky
2008-01-30  8:56     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-29 17:56 ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-29 18:17   ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-29 19:13     ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-30  8:49       ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-30 11:15         ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-30 11:52           ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-29 18:47 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-01-30  9:06 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30  9:39   ` [Caml-list] " Berke Durak
2008-01-30  9:53     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 10:50       ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-30 11:15         ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-30 11:54           ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-30 13:58             ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 14:08               ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-30 11:15       ` Berke Durak
2008-01-30 11:47         ` Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-30 13:55           ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 13:54         ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 14:24           ` [Caml-list] " Berke Durak
2008-01-30 14:35             ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 19:48             ` [Caml-list] " Bünzli Daniel
2008-01-30 18:12           ` Vlad Skvortsov
2008-01-30 16:32       ` Michael Ekstrand
2008-01-30 16:44         ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 18:03         ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-30 19:45         ` Olivier Andrieu
2008-01-30 19:53           ` Vlad Skvortsov
2008-01-30 10:45     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30  9:51   ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-01-30 10:18     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 10:43       ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2008-01-30 12:00         ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-30 13:25           ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-01-30 14:06             ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-01-30 12:37   ` Pietro Abate
2008-01-30 13:26     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-01-30 14:07     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-01-30 13:37       ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-01-30 15:12         ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-01-31  9:02           ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-02-01 15:03             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-02-03 20:21               ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-02-04  3:40                 ` Matthew Hannigan
2008-02-04 18:42               ` Nathaniel Gray
2008-01-30 17:42       ` David Allsopp
2008-01-30 14:13     ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-01-30 20:22       ` [Caml-list] " Bünzli Daniel
2008-02-08 22:24       ` N. Owen Gunden
2008-01-30 15:15     ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-30 12:37 ` [Caml-list] " Berke Durak
2008-02-13  8:45 ` David Teller
2008-02-13 10:02   ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-02-13 10:48     ` [Caml-list] " Berke Durak
2008-02-13 13:51       ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-02-13 14:10       ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-02-13 14:22         ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-02-13 17:57           ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-02-15  8:13       ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-02-15  9:47         ` Berke Durak
2008-02-15 10:24           ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-02-15 10:59             ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-02-15 15:45               ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-02-15 13:35         ` Ralph Douglass
2008-02-15 14:08           ` Christophe TROESTLER
2008-02-13 12:13     ` David Teller
2008-02-13 13:48       ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-02-13 13:58         ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-02-13 14:20           ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-02-13 14:28             ` [Caml-list] " David Teller

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