The place to type messages in freenode using Firefox is in the text box spanning the bottom of the page. I couldn't find it a first either. To talk to someone directly prefix your message with their nickname then : space. If you can get that far, someone should be kind enough to help you. If you don't see activity, try just sending a "Hello, anyone there?".
IRC is great for some things, but I agree the mailing list is better for day to day async communication. I have been trying help support the mailing list better. People are probably tired of listening to me, but someone has to get things going. Then I'll shut up. :)
--Andy <o)
On 06/24/2015 05:26 AM, Markus Krummenacker wrote:
Christian Schafmeister writes:
Hey Markus,
You will have a better debugging experience if you use Slime.
We should talk and I’ll give you a better update as to where Clasp is wrt optimization and debugging. It’s kind of a complex picture that is changing rapidly. In a nutshell:
- I’m incorporating inlining and a new compiler as we speak and this should produce a large improvement in performance.
hi chris,
so having 2 compilers floating around does create the puzzle of where exactly improvements should be made. i should probably pick something to do that will survive the transition from one compiler to the other...
- The debugging experience is mixed and should be improved
soon. I’m incorporating a new compiler but it generates no debugging information at the moment. I’m adding DWARF debugging support so that we can debug using gdb or lldb.
i know nothing about dwarves, but if such debug info could be used on the lisp side as well, maybe i should study that a bit. (though it will probably take me quite a bit of time to digest. i don't want to prevent other people from investigating this as well.)
- On freenode there is a #clasp chatroom - could you drop in and I can update you on where things are?
quite frankly, i have no idea how to use irc chat. i did use firefox to visit the freenode website, and i seem to have joined #clasp, but i don't know how i would type anything, it does not do anything for me, and i don't see any activity. maybe it is also getting late on the east coast.
anyways, my cultural preference generally is towards "traditional" email and mailing-lists, that are properly archived, and where communication is asynchronous.
i would think explanations regarding what glue holds clasp together these days would be of broad interest on the mailing list too, instead of just the presumably ephemeral irc channel.