From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/18184 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.39 is released Date: 26 Oct 1998 09:07:08 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156753 4850 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:32:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA14779 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 03:08:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB29184; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 02:08:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 26 Oct 1998 02:07:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA17287 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 02:07:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA14771 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 03:07:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (ramses.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.180]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id JAA24666; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:07:11 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (grossjoh@localhost) by ramses.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id JAA08649; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:07:10 +0100 Original-To: Hrvoje Niksic In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "26 Oct 1998 00:59:04 +0100" Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070039 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.39) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:18184 >>>>> Hrvoje Niksic writes: > But these things are not the point. The point is that the crucial > difference (IMHO) is whether the code is interpreted or compiled, not > how it is compiled. I don't buy the notion that a byte-compiled > function is somehow "less compiled" because it's not compiled to > native code. I didn't see the beginning of the thread, but IMVHO byte-code is both compiled and interpreted. kai -- Life is hard and then you die.