[MLton-user] Unsafe mode? Incantation to disablle array bounds checks.

Matthew Fluet fluet at tti-c.org
Thu Nov 22 07:29:18 PST 2007


On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>  * Matthew Fluet:
>> 
>> >  The "search" box on the mlton.org website does a google search, but
>> >  limits it to the mlton.org domain, which includes all the mailing list
>> >  archives. That can be useful.
>>
>>  For some bizarre reason, Google does not index the Wiki pages.  Perhaps
>>  due to this line in most of the generated HTML:
>>
>>   <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">
>>
>>  "nofollow" neans that the spider does not traverse the whole site.
>
>> From what I can make out from the MoinMoin docs, the reason for defaulting 
> to "nofollow" on most normal pages is to reduce the machine load and bandwith 
> due to spiders.  However, the "TitleIndex" page is rigged to have "follow", 
> allowing search engines to explore the wiki from the "TitleIndex" page 
> exclusively.
>
> However, because we produce documentation from the wiki, we've been using an 
> "Index" page (with the [[TitleIndex]] macro), rather than a "TitleIndex" 
> page.  So, that means that no page got a "follow", and so Google only sees 
> the pages directly linked from the front page.
>
> I created a "TitleIndex" page (with the [[TitleIndex]] macro), and changed 
> the "Index" link in the "Home Index LocalSiteMap" banner to go to the 
> "TitleIndex" page.  So, it is now linked from the front page and Google will 
> start to see the rest of the pages.

Using some Google webmaster tools, it looks like Google re-indexed 
mlton.org on Nov. 15, and I believe that the search box should be somewhat 
better at yielding wiki pages, in addition to mailing list messages.




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