On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think ikarus (or any software really) should
> be writing stuff to your file system without you explicitly giving
> permission...

As a means for providing "quality of service", VIM writes a tmp file.
Its intention is not malicious it just wants to fulfill its duty.
Having Ikarus write compiled libs will make it run faster; thus
fulfiling its duty.

> For example, I get
> many libraries for testing purposes, and if every time I use one
> such library, it gets compiled and cached indefinitely, I *think*
> that would be a serious problem.

A problem because hard disks are too small? ;) Or because it violates
some ethics?

Grant

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