[523] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: Zephyr & Macs?
lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lwvanels@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 16 13:26:17 1991
No; that server, running on arilinn, would frequently wedge the other
servers in the middle of a brain dump, which is why I took it out of use.
The work I'm doing right now is primarily to improve the servers
performance, as I said. This wasn't to imply that the server that was in
/mit/zephyr was completely non-functional, just that work needed to be done
on it before it could be made faster and put into production use; part of
this was to undo your conversion of it to C++. A C++ compiler is not
available on all the platforms that I'd like to be able to run it on; the
RS/6000 (our fastest production platform) does not have a C++ compiler, and
I doubt it will in the near future. See the message I recently forwarded to
info-C++ if you want more details about why I believe that is the case.
There are additional reasons why I converted it back; it is easier to
profile, debug, and maintain if it is in C than C++, and the advantages
gained by writing it in C++ are negligible.
