[gambit-list] Re: Gambit is great: the manual should advertise better

Marc Feeley feeley at IRO.UMontreal.CA
Sun Feb 6 22:47:25 EST 2005


> I'm a very satisfied Gambit user, as my program became fast enough to
> refute some C calculations my advisor made 20 years ago.  My advisor
> was clever enough to prove his answers were wrong, even though his
> program no longer runs.  Thanks to Marc for offering to help optimize
> my code: that got me to look at my code myself and make an obvious
> optimization.  Guillaume's profiler certainly helped locate a hotspot.
> 
> But I think Gambit is a lot better than the manual would indicate to a
> non-expert schemer like me.  I have 4 "advertising" tips:

Thanks for the advertising tips.  I will see what I can do.  It should
be clear now that I don't like hype...  What you read (in the docs) is
what you get.

Marc


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