I want to have another go at the html documentation. But before I start I'd prefer to have a good list of everything Parrot. That way I can build a proper subject view of the project.
It would be nice if people just email me what I've missed. I'm hoping if folk just state what's obvious to them I'll get good coverage.
I've put it on the wiki as well, so if you prefer to edit that, fine by me.
http://www.vendian.org/parrot/wiki/bin/view.cgi/Main/EverythingParrot
=head1 Subsystems and Resources
=head2 Memory Allocation
Resource pools
=head2 Registers and Stacks
Register sets Frame stacks Int stack User stack Pad stack Control stack Regex stack
=head2 PMC
Internal structure (PObj, Buffer, PMC_EXT)
Vtables
PMC hierarchy and (multiple) inheritance
Abstract PMCs
Dynamic PMCs
Serialization (Freeze/Thaw and Dumper library)
Constant PMCs
PMC template creation
Loading and initialization sequence
Descriptions of individual PMC types (probably discussed under separate subjects)
How to create a specific type of PMC using Parrot Extensions interface
Assignment in PASM/PIR
C macros
Null PMC
Layering
Morphing
Properties
=head2 Interpreter
[...]
=head2 Exec
[...]
=head2 Debugging
[...]
=head2 Big Number Arithmetic
Decimal Arithmetic
=head2 Namespaces
Separators
=head2 Dead Object Detection (DOD) and Garbage Collection (GC)
Mark and sweep (?) Timely destruction (?) ARENA_DOD_FLAGS
=head2 Copy on write (COW)
[...]
=head2 Parrot Operations (Ops)
Call and return conventions Variable length parameter lists Opcode numbering
=head2 Subroutines
Closures Coroutines Continuations
=head2 Multi-Method Dispatch
Rules for method resolution
=head2 Objects
Classes and metaclasses
=head2 Keys
Keyed access
=head2 Threads
Thread safety
=head2 IMCC and PIR
[...]
=head2 PASM
[...]
=head2 Events
[...]
=head2 Parrot Strings
Unicode ICU
=head2 Native Call Interface (NCI)
[...]
=head2 Just-in-time compilation (JIT)
[...]
=head2 Exceptions
[...]
=head2 Miniparrot
[...]
=head2 Extensions Interface
[...]
=head2 Embedding Interface
[...]
=head2 Bytecode
Packfile format Metadata
=head2 IO
Asynchronous IO stat
=head2 Lexical Scope and Scratchpads
[...]
=head2 Regular Expressions
=head2 Libraries
SDL ncurses Postgres PCRE Dynamic opcode libraries Includes
=head2 Configuration
Configure.pl Initialization User Dialogues System Tests File Creation
=head2 Building and Installing
make
=head2 Editor plugins
Emacs VIM Kate
=head1 Subjects orthogonal to subsystems
=head2 Platform Specifics
PLATFORMS cygwin mingw
=head2 Tests
Writing tests Parrot::Test make arguments
=head2 Benchmarks and Optimization
[...]
=head2 Examples
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=head2 C source code
Coding standards typedefs Macros
=head2 Perl source code
CPAN Modules
=head2 Documentation
Uppercase named text files POD General Documentation Specific Documentation Development Documentation PMC Documentation Perl Design Documents (PDD) Parrot::Docs modules
=head1 Things outside the distribution
=head2 CVS
Parrot source code repository access CVS Monitor
=head2 Related projects
Ponie Pirate mod_parrot YAL OpenComal Russian documentation Perl 6 regular expressions Parrot on Windows (POW)
=head2 Resources
Perl6 internals mailing list and its weekly summary Tinderboxes Perl6 Essentials (O'Reilly)
=head1 Languages which target Parrot
=head2 How to target Parrot
[...]
=head2 Languages in the Parrot distribution
Perl6 Jako BASIC Regex TCL Cola Scheme URM Ruby miniperl Befunge BF Ook! PLOT Python Forth PASM
