Performance issue

goran at krampe.se goran at krampe.se
Wed Jan 11 06:34:14 UTC 2006


Hi!

Timothy Reaves <treaves at silverfieldstech.com> wrote: 
> 	I was going to uninstall RB, to see if that changed things again,  
> but that does not seem to be an option... (ya, let's let them INSTALL  
> software, but don't give them the option of UNINSTALLING it, ya!))

Which reminds me - I should add "uninstall" support in SM for .mcz's -
but the reason for this not being available *in general* is because an
install of say a .cs actually *runs code* (postscript, preamble) which
typically has side effects (otherwise there would be little point with
them) and those side effects are of course "impossible" to revert.

And of course we have the class initialization problem - but I assume MC
simply assumes that MC packages don't do "bad things" in their class
initializers.

regards, Göran



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