Q: Where is Nimrod used in SliTaz? And why? A: Currently nowhere officially. The unofficial one that started this all is the tazpanel_inc code that Alekej wrote with the intention of speeding up package listings. It has shown to be 5 times faster than the ash script equivalent - see http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/nimrod-the-great for the graph and package. It does require a small fix to work correctly (with regards to tazpkg's files, not the code itself). I also created an unofficial package @ http://www.trixarian.net/downloads/aporia-0.1.2.tazpkg which is a text/code editor written in Nimrod using gtksourceview to do syntax highlighting. It can edit more than just Nimrod code and is smaller than Beaver and Geany to use. As to Why: Binaries are fast ;)
Q: Can Nimrod binaries be optimized? A: Yes, it includes several flags within it's compiler to optimize the binaries it produces. -d:release is what we use to strip the debugger code, while using --opt:speed or --opt:size optimizes the binary for speed or size. -- SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
