On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:19:43PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > You and Piers have me convinced. I'll add access to them, and we'll > > cover the things with danger signs. > > Might be good to also provide "higher level" controls that just > provide hints to the GC. Somewhat like the "use less qw(memory);" > pragma that never quite happened for perl5, but with more appropriate > attribute for GC in perl6. > > For example, an application might want to hint that it wouldn't like > GC to cause a stall. > > Those kinds of GC hints shouldn't break across upgrades.
Are we allowing bytecode compiled under an earlier version to continue working on a later version of the interpreter, as the answer to that question pretty much limits where the line has to be drawn. Alex Gough
