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16:20:55
|3b|
right, but an ugly proof doesn't stop you from using the results to prove something else, but an implementation of an algo using too much ram might prevent it from being useful
16:22:00
|3b|
(or too much CPU, and the 2 can frequently be traded for eachother, so you can't say either "minimal ram" or "minimal CPU" implementation is always better)
17:10:56
selwyn
i respect those who design algorithms that are efficient from the pov of making best use of the cpu cache and keeping memory down and being fast
17:11:54
|3b|
yeah, optimization at that level can be a fun puzzle, just usually too far down the project stack for me to get to :/
17:14:27
|3b|
ACTION usually optimizes on the level of "hardware is getting faster, faster than i'm coding, so just work on something else and wait for better hardware" :/
17:15:15
Shinmera
latest dumbass project I'd rather not be doing: portable file change notification lib
17:19:10
Shinmera
I've given up on CI for the most part because the fighting took far too much time.
17:20:09
|3b|
most of the current fighting is due to wanting to run on as many os+lisps as possible, and lots of those combinations not actually working (or at least not easily on the CI servers) :/
17:21:02
|3b|
looking like i'm going to have to drop clisp for now... won't install on windows, doesn't have ffi on mac, doesn't build with current readline on linux, if i install it from apt, the CI never terminates :/
17:23:01
|3b|
though at least github CI servers have msys now, so i can build sbcl there if i want to test on latest versions of that
20:21:43
Colleen
github.com/Shinmera/mmap/is... Website (HTML), Title: Invalid file handle opening to write on Windows10 · Issue #7 · Shinmera/mmap · GitHub
20:37:11
|3b|
should https://github.com/Shinmera/mmap/blob/master/windows.lisp#L198 also have :exec ?
20:37:12
Colleen
github.com/Shinmera/mmap/bl... Website (HTML), Title: mmap/windows.lisp at master · Shinmera/mmap · GitHub
20:40:22
Colleen
github.com/Shinmera/mmap/bl... Website (HTML), Title: mmap/windows.lisp at master · Shinmera/mmap · GitHub
20:40:41
Colleen
github.com/Shinmera/mmap/bl... Website (HTML), Title: mmap/windows.lisp at master · Shinmera/mmap · GitHub
20:43:03
Shinmera
Oh hey, ql release is finally out. messagebox, file-attributes, zippy, and most of the cl-mixed/harmony updates are now out.
21:02:27
Shinmera
I'd aim for the latter personally. Erroring is typically better than doing things the user might not want.
21:09:36
|3b|
either is OK with me though, as long as it is obvious how to fix it when it breaks if it doesn't help