You're joking, but I've been able to make it spend 12 hours over 24 in the GC for real : http://raphael.jolly.free.fr/text/gc.png
(ok it was a tricky symbolic computation, and this is a very very special case just below the heap space limit)
In case nobody recalls, he's a member of slashdot and an early one at that (6963) : http://slashdot.org/~hansreiser . I think it calls for a little more reserve than has been displayed so far.
"Sometimes old things work very well and it pays to go back to them."
This is so true that it can even apply to your example of unix-firefox-kde : this combination can be much improved by downgrading kde to twm. Try it.
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You're joking, but I've been able to make it spend 12 hours over 24 in the GC for real : http://raphael.jolly.free.fr/text/gc.png (ok it was a tricky symbolic computation, and this is a very very special case just below the heap space limit)
In case nobody recalls, he's a member of slashdot and an early one at that (6963) : http://slashdot.org/~hansreiser . I think it calls for a little more reserve than has been displayed so far.
"Sometimes old things work very well and it pays to go back to them." This is so true that it can even apply to your example of unix-firefox-kde : this combination can be much improved by downgrading kde to twm. Try it.
An automatic guitar had already been build, by Nicolas Anatol Baginsky ; with the additional ability to learn. Now there's even a band:
http://www.the-three-sirens.info/
Here are two samples:
http://www.baginsky.de/agl/snd/tton7.mov
http://www.baginsky.de/agl/snd/aglclip.mov
It doesn't sound bad, does it ?