Re: Schedule remove_pic branch for deletion

2009-09-14 Thread James E Keenan
Will Coleda wrote: To be clear, removing the branch does not mean the ticket is closed. Noted. The ticket itself (remove PIC) still needs to be resolved. Andrew seems to have a plan for this in his reply, however. I wonder who I'm going to assign the ticket to ... :-) __

partcl wrapup for Release 1.6.0

2009-09-14 Thread Will Coleda
Stability issues for partcl are much improved for 1.6.0 vs. 1.5.0; All but 2 segfaults reported after 1.5 have been fixed, and those likely existed already in 1.5.0 http://code.google.com/p/partcl/wiki/SpecTestStatus#segfault Thanks to everyone who has been fixing segfaults (esp. NotFound++), pro

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Tim Bunce
Good point. I've ducked the issue by changing the line to "Register based with Continuation Passing control flow". Thanks. Tim. On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:33:44PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Slide 79 shows Parrot as having JIT. But JIT is deprecated and broken. > > There is a fast core op

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Raphael Descamps
A few other interesting metrics could be for example: * Work done on the Specification (Synopses): svn log docs/Perl6/Spec/ * TimToady hacking ;) svn log src/perl6/ svn log src/perl6/STD.pm * Work done on the Official Testsuite: svn log t/spec/ * Work done on the Testsuite: svn log t/ (It's int

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Reini Urban wrote: > lightning is still active and I use it on clisp. The developer is > responsive, however there are no releases, everybody has to use current CVS. > anonym...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/lightning > > There are rarely bugs in the lib, so there

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-14 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 18:19 +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > My 5 cent on the other discussion points: > It's ridicolous to rip out our current jit, just because not all *ops* > are yet jitted, and some are buggy. It's getting ripped out because it's broken, no one currently interested in Parrot knows

Re: Suggest Deprecating Current JIT System

2009-09-14 Thread Reini Urban
Andy Dougherty schrieb: 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 w

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Carl Mäsak
Tim (>): > I'd be grateful for feedback on any of the slides, but I'm especially > interested in updates for: > >    page 73 - Perl 6 implementations >                I've added Mildew, with links, to the SMOP line >                anything I should add / change / remove? >                What's th

Re: Schedule remove_pic branch for deletion

2009-09-14 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:10 AM, James E Keenan wrote: > There has been no activity in the 'remove_pic' branch for nine months. In > January of this year, Whiteknight asked about its status in > http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60048 and got no substantive > reply. It does get tiring

Re: Schedule remove_pic branch for deletion

2009-09-14 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Vasily Chekalkin wrote: > I vote for removing this branch. We can create similar branch after removing > current JIT. I agree. Close this branch down for now, we can rip PIC out in a few days when we rip JIT out too. --Andrew Whitwoth

Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Tim Bunce
I'm working on an update to my "Perl - Baseless Myths and Startling Realities" talk. (Which I'll be giving in Dublin, Moscow and Pisa in the few weeks!) I got great help on the Perl 5 portion of the talk when I asked via my blog http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/08/13/help-me-update-my-perl-myths-talk

Re: Schedule remove_pic branch for deletion

2009-09-14 Thread Vasily Chekalkin
James E Keenan wrote: There has been no activity in the 'remove_pic' branch for nine months. In January of this year, Whiteknight asked about its status in http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60048 and got no substantive reply. Today bacek notes in https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/tic

Schedule remove_pic branch for deletion

2009-09-14 Thread James E Keenan
There has been no activity in the 'remove_pic' branch for nine months. In January of this year, Whiteknight asked about its status in http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60048 and got no substantive reply. Today bacek notes in https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/7 that the resolut