From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add technical/whyperl
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:41:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871roykdv5.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200407094940.14962-1-e@yhbt.net>
No substantial comments, just some typos spotted while reading through.
Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> writes:
> +As always, comments and corrections and additions welcome at
s/welcome/are welcome/ ?
> +* Predictable performance
> +
> + While Perl is neither fast or memory-efficient, its
s/or/nor/
> + performance and memory use are predictable and does not
s/does/do/
> + require GC tuning by the user.
> +
> + public-inbox is developed for (and mostly on) old
> + hardware. Perl was fast enough to power the web of the
> + late 1990s, and any cheap VPS today has more than enough
> + RAM and CPU for handling plain-text email.
> +
> + Low hardware requirements increases the reach of our software
s/increases/increase/
> +* Integration with distros and non-Perl libraries
> +
> + Perl modules and bindings to common libraries such as
> + SQLite and Xapian are already distributed by many
> + GNU/Linux distros and BSD ports.
> +
> + There should be no need to rely on language-specific
> + package managers such as cpan(1), those systems increase
s/, those/. Those/
> +* Compactness and terseness
> +
> + Less code generally means less bugs. We try to avoid the
s/less bugs/fewer bugs/
> +* Lightweight threading
> +
> + While lightweight threading implementations are
> + convenient, they tend to be significantly heavier than a
> + pure event-loop systems (or multi-threaded event-loop
s/a pure/pure/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-08 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-07 9:49 [PATCH] doc: add technical/whyperl Eric Wong
2020-04-08 0:41 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
2020-04-08 22:26 ` Eric Wong
2020-04-09 1:14 ` Kyle Meyer
[not found] ` <87r1wyjlop.fsf@vuxu.org>
2020-04-08 22:17 ` Eric Wong
2020-04-08 22:37 ` Leah Neukirchen
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