clasp next steps ? speed-up ?

[Andrew Robin]

The place to type messages in freenode using Firefox is in the text box 
spanning the bottom of the page. I couldn't find it a first either. To 
talk to someone directly prefix your message with their nickname then : 
space. If you can get that far, someone should be kind enough to help 
you. If you don't see activity, try just sending a "Hello, anyone there?".

IRC is great for some things, but I agree the mailing list is better for 
day to day async communication. I have been trying help support the 
mailing list better. People are probably tired of listening to me, but 
someone has to get things going. Then I'll shut up. :)

--Andy <o)

On 06/24/2015 05:26 AM, Markus Krummenacker wrote:
> Christian Schafmeister writes:
>   >  Hey Markus,
>   >
>   >  You will have a better debugging experience if you use Slime.
>   >
>   >  We should talk and I’ll give you a better update as to where Clasp is wrt optimization and debugging.  It’s kind of a complex picture that is changing rapidly.  In a nutshell:
>   >
>   >  1) I’m incorporating inlining and a new compiler as we speak and this should produce a large improvement in performance.
>
> hi chris,
>
> so having 2 compilers floating around does create the puzzle of where
> exactly improvements should be made.  i should probably pick something
> to do that will survive the transition from one compiler to the
> other...
>
>
>
>   >  2) The debugging experience is mixed and should be improved
>   >  soon. I’m incorporating a new compiler but it generates no
>   >  debugging information at the moment.  I’m adding DWARF debugging
>   >  support so that we can debug using gdb or lldb.
>
> i know nothing about dwarves, but if such debug info could be used on
> the lisp side as well, maybe i should study that a bit.  (though it
> will probably take me quite a bit of time to digest.  i don't want to
> prevent other people from investigating this as well.)
>
>
>   >  3) On freenode there is a #clasp chatroom - could you drop in and I can update you on where things are?
>
> quite frankly, i have no idea how to use irc chat.  i did use firefox
> to visit the freenode website, and i seem to have joined #clasp, but i
> don't know how i would type anything,  it does not do anything for me,
> and i don't see any activity.  maybe it is also getting late on the
> east coast.
>
> anyways, my cultural preference generally is towards "traditional"
> email and mailing-lists, that are properly archived, and where
> communication is asynchronous.
>
> i would think explanations regarding what glue holds clasp together
> these days would be of broad interest on the mailing list too, instead
> of just the presumably ephemeral irc channel.
>