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1:10:35
aeth
I usually use multiple values for that sort of thing if you don't actually want a subsequence, especially for 2D
4:58:35
char[m]
Maybe I could add it. Would you opposed to other extensions in a similar vein for hash-table and vector and so on? They could all share a system.
5:06:58
Bike
char[m]: i have not had much ability to use ctype for what i originally wanted it for (though i'm inching closer to that). if people want to use it to experiment with typing i'm all for that.
5:10:50
Bike
originally i wanted to use it for clasp, but i can't right now for boring reasons. so it's pretty much been staying where it is, i.e. a basically correct but not especially performant or extensible type system
5:14:33
char[m]
Seems pretty extensible to me. I have a somewhat working extension (that probably shouldn't be upstreamed). How would you it to be more extensible?
5:15:20
char[m]
It is sad you can't use it in clasp. Do you mean it is not performant because it makes heavy use of CLOS?
5:15:48
Bike
it's not performant because it doesn't cache anything (or at least i imagine that's the main problem)
5:17:40
Bike
as for extensibility, the API for introspecting on types needs some thought (or really any thought - the one that's there is basically just the slot accessors)
5:18:17
Bike
for example it's kind of not easy to ask questions like "what is the upgraded array element type of this arbitrary (e.g. disjunction) type"
5:18:39
Bike
and i should probably have it use the client dispatch pattern rather than having a bunch of special files
8:14:28
zacque
Hi, question: Why does `(apply (car '((lambda (x) (= x 2)))) (list 2))` give type error? I'd expect it to return T
8:16:59
beach
You would have to convert the lambda expression to a function, so you would have to use EVAL or COMPILE.
8:21:02
zacque
Hmmm, right now, the lambda predicate is supplied by my own, I'm storing these predicates inside a list
8:21:35
zacque
What I have in mind is to apply them one by one against a data until one that returns T
8:21:54
beach
If you construct the list to contain functions in the first place, you should be fine.
9:02:55
hayley
Has anyone got any favourite benchmarks? I'm aware of cl-bench, but am looking for more garbage collector-intensive programs, and perhaps parallel programs too.
9:08:16
hayley
Hm, could be interesting to test a web server, but there's usually very little that survives between collections. My Regrind fuzz tester already has that kind of allocation behaviour.
9:14:15
hayley
ACTION needs to ask for a license for one of the benchmarks she used. Whoops. Can't un-remember how that code works now.
10:09:10
splittist
There are problems that can only be solved by staring out a train window or walking in the woods. There are problems that can only be solved at the keyboard and letting your fingers do the thinking. I wish I knew ahead of time which is which.
10:45:53
jcowan
hayley: rather than a web-ized file server, a stateful app server might be the thing fwiw
10:46:36
hayley
Sure, but what application? Shouldn't be too hard to interact with, since I need to automate that, but it should do interesting work.