On May 27, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Michele Simionato wrote:
True, and this is why auto-caching should be clearly documented and why there should be a command line switch to disable it on demand. I think nobody ever suggested to do otherwise.
People don't reads the documentation before starting to use the system. The default out-of-the-box behavior should be sensible and least surprising. Would a user who just got Ikarus or has been using it casually expect that Ikarus is auto caching and using precompiled code behind the scenes or would they expect it to be loading code from source? (I think it's the latter: people should not be expected to know in advance that there is a separate compilation step happening behind the scenes). Once they become "seasoned" users (and read the documentation), they can certainly change the behavior to the one that's more suitable for them, fully understanding the issues. Aziz,,,
