[Rd] New developer.r-project.org page

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I've added a page on the developer site on

 	`Resources for Portable Programming'

It should show up via the index page in due course and is at

 	https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk/Portability.html

now.  (R core members are welcome to add to it.)

Some of the articles linked there are very useful background on e.g.
32- vs 64-bit differences and how to write efficient shared libraries.

Some of these things are targets for R 2.2.0 (e.g. using lib64, controllng 
visibility), especially after gcc 4.0.0 is released (it was due this 
week).

Note to users of ix86 Linux: valgrind 2.4.0 is out and has solved almost 
all the instability problems of 2.2.0 on recent Linux kernels.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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