Re: Installation issues

2015-02-14 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Alexis, Hi Alexis, if I google picolisp emacs I see the following URL as the #1 result: https://github.com/tj64/picolisp-mode That is what I use when I code PL in Emacs, works great! Excellent. :-) However, that code hasn't been updated for over 2 years, and since i've had a few bad

A pragmatic solution to using arrays in picolisp

2015-02-14 Thread Enrique Sánchez
1) A pragmatic solution 2) Some timing results and a workaround 1) A PRAGMATIC SOLUTION --- Is there a price to be paid for having arrays in the language? Well, if the picolisp machine has to be changed, in order to support another data type, more tag bits, then I would say

Re: A pragmatic solution to using arrays in picolisp

2015-02-14 Thread Alex Gilding
2) I suppose that the garbage collector would have to keep track of all those CELL pointers in the array, that are outside of the reach of the picolisp symbol table. That would be the price to pay, I think a smaller price than adding another datatype. One cheap workaround for this would

Re: Installation issues

2015-02-14 Thread Alexis
On 2015-02-14T00:39:55+1100, Lawrence Bottorff said: LB Is this different from the distribution version? Yes. The distribution version includes `picolisp-wiki-mode.el`, which the GitHub version doesn't, and a running a diff on `picolisp.el` and `inferior-picolisp.el` shows various