Re: Generalizing - -

2009-12-07 Thread Cliff Wells
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 13:14 +0100, Konrad Hinsen wrote: On 4 Dec 2009, at 23:23, Cliff Wells wrote: What isn't clear to me is exactly what a piece of paper provides that an electronic form doesn't (aside from inconvenience). I don't see any A clear legal status all over the world

Re: Generalizing - -

2009-12-04 Thread Cliff Wells
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:49 -0800, Richard Newman wrote: The problem is that it is an unreasonably high barrier to entry. There MUST be an electronic-only way (and it must not require a cell phone, CC#, c.) if the full potential of this community is to be unleashed upon

Re: Timing, JIT, Heisen-code

2009-09-30 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 22:54 -0700, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: Hi, On Sep 30, 12:19 am, Cliff Wells cliff.we...@gmail.com wrote: In short, you've taken something that was originally CPU-bound and made it I/O-bound. I don't think so. The measured times do not include the println

Re: Timing, JIT, Heisen-code

2009-09-29 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 09:08 -0700, Matt wrote: So, using mytime2 with the myavgtime macro gives average execution times for the expression (+ 1 2 3) of 2 to 3 times longer than when using mytime1. Why is this? Does the JIT optimize differently with all those println's when using mytime2?

dynamic :use

2009-09-07 Thread Cliff Wells
Hi, I'm new to Clojure (and Lisp-type languages in general) and I've never used Java... in short, I have a steep learning curve littered with rocks and nails. I also don't know whether it's a good thing that I have long experience with Python and C :-P In any case, as a first project, I'm