On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > OTOH, exposing the controls for twidding does mean that we probably > > won't ever be able to unexpose them, which limits our potential > > flexibility in the future. > > > > Opinions, folks? > My gut feeling is that we should make them available, but fenced about > with caveats about the interface being subject to radical change if we > find a better GC mechanism, or even if you find yourself running in a > different environment. And if you're at the point where you're > tweaking the GC controls you're probably going to 're tweak' them when > you upgrade parrot too, and if the interface has changed, well, you > suck it up and get on with the job. I think Piers said here pretty much what I was thinking. If we expose the controls without some sort of "Under Construction" sign then it would preclude us from ever using a fundamentally different garbage collector later on, as it wouldn't have the same sort of controls that parrot had committed to providing. Hence I think I'd like GC controls exposed, but with this sort of warning on them. Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
