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| From: | Jon Harrop <jon@f...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: [OSR] Ports-like package management system |
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:00:01 Nicolas Pouillard wrote: > Users that consider darcs broken and/or unusable are not darcs users, > they perhaps tried it, that's all. So you have not personally experienced performance problems with darcs. > IMHO they've applied the "correction before optimization" principle. > A principle that we often spread in functional programming community. If darcs is unusably slow then its theoretical correctness is irrelevant. Regardless, its actual correctness is still in question because it has so few users that it is basically untested software. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e