0.0.2 needs what?

[Damien Neil]

Are there any issues holding up 0.0.2 that I (or others) could work
on?  Failing that, what areas of Parrot are most in need of immediate
work?

I'm interested in looking at the bytecode loader, if nobody else
has intentions there.  In particular, I'd like to see if we can
get empirical data to justify some of the design decisions that
are being assumed.  Exactly how expensive, for example, would it
be to use a single bytecode format with platform-independent
encodings?

                      - Damien