Re: branches to merge

2009-09-02 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 18:21, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > We have two branches that reached maturity today and are ready for a > merge in to trunk. I want to run past the team first before anything > gets merged anywhere. > excellent news. thanks for letting us know about it. > The first, which we'

branches to merge

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Whitworth
We have two branches that reached maturity today and are ready for a merge in to trunk. I want to run past the team first before anything gets merged anywhere. The first, which we've already heard about, is bacek's context_pmc3 branch. This turns the Parrot_context structure into a new Context PMC

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-02 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Moritz Lenz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:56:39AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > LibJIT: > > The only URL I've found, > > http://www.southern-storm.com.au/libjit.html > > doesn't seem to go anywhere useful anymore. That's doesn't seem > > to be a goo

Re: Some older branches in our repository

2009-09-02 Thread Vasily Chekalkin
James E Keenan wrote: isafast/ I think pmichaud++ already merged this branch into trunk. pmc_i_ops/ This one is waiting to review by Allison. pmc_pct/ This one is stalled but worth keeping. -- Bacek. ___ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listin

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Glencross
Hi all, On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > Here are a few random observations: > > Current JIT: >    Can anyone provide reasonable benchmarks for whether this actually >    provides any significant performance boost?  (Obviously, this has >    to be done by someone on a pla

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:56:39AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > > > In response to our discussion today in #ps, I have started drafting > > some plans for implementing a proper JIT for Parrot. I have tried to > > show several options for each step, e

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Andy Dougherty wrote: > Current JIT: >    Can anyone provide reasonable benchmarks for whether this actually >    provides any significant performance boost?  (Obviously, this has >    to be done by someone on a platform where it currently works.) I had seen some nu

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-02 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Andy Dougherty wrote: > Here are a few random observations: > > Gnu Lightning: According to the documentation: > > "The low number of available registers (six) is also an important > limitation . . . ." > > Does anyone have a sense how well that would (or woul

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-02 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Andrew Whitworth wrote: > In response to our discussion today in #ps, I have started drafting > some plans for implementing a proper JIT for Parrot. I have tried to > show several options for each step, each with pros and cons: > > https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/JITRewrit