Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:24:37PM +0100, Donald Hunter wrote: > I get the impression from today's #parrotsketch that running Parrot > and Rakudo on a 128 MB Linkstation is not considered to be a valid > goal any more. [...] Not exactly. It remains a goal for us, but at the moment Rakudo develo

Re: Parrot 2.9.1 Released

2010-10-19 Thread Andy Lester
> Parrot 2.9.1 News: > - This is a bugfix release to address a excessive slowdown in the Rakudo Perl > 6 build. If you run out of memory on a box with < 512 MB physical RAM, > please report it to us. I hope people see this as the positive that it is. This shows that the staggered Parrot -> Ra

Parrot 2.9.1 Released

2010-10-19 Thread Christoph Otto
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 2.9.1. Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 2.9.1 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or by following the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would

Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 15:24, Donald Hunter wrote: > I get the impression from today's #parrotsketch that running Parrot and > Rakudo on a 128 MB Linkstation is not considered to be a valid goal any > more. Surely Parrot and Rakudo should be able to run with comparable > performance to Perl

Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread Donald Hunter
Hi, For what it's worth, I used to build Parrot and Rakudo and mod_parrot on a Buffalo Linkstation with 128 MB RAM. I used to successfully use dlfunc to load sqlite3 functions and bind them into Rakudo where I was enjoying learning Perl 6 while working on a Web DB project. That was back in the pre

Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread Bruce Gray
On Oct 19, 2010, at 11:35 AM, chromatic wrote: --snip-- I'm almost certain it's r49557. I verified that reverting r49557 from 2.9.0 allows Rakudo to build in normal time. r49583 now commits that reversion, and d49707813ef75af2c3b2 updates Rakudo's PARROT_REVISION to use it. As moritz++ p

Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread Moritz Lenz
Util++ has reverted the offending commit in 49583. Rakudo build times are back to normal. Is anybody doing a 2.9.1 point release, on which we can base the 2010.10 Rakudo release on? Cheers, Moritz ___ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev

Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread Jonathan Worthington
On 19/10/2010 18:35, chromatic wrote: On Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 09:22, Patrick R wrote: Today several of us have been building Rakudo with the Parrot 2.9.0 release and finding that it is taking an extremely long time -- much longer than previously. Here's my current table of revisions and

Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:22:01AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > Today several of us have been building Rakudo with the Parrot > 2.9.0 release and finding that it is taking an extremely long time -- > much longer than previously. Here's a table with additional and updated timings on my system

Re: Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 09:22, Patrick R wrote: > Today several of us have been building Rakudo with the Parrot > 2.9.0 release and finding that it is taking an extremely long time -- > much longer than previously. > > Here's my current table of revisions and build times: > > RakudoP

Rakudo builds are unbearably slow with 2.9.0 (somewhat urgent)

2010-10-19 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Today several of us have been building Rakudo with the Parrot 2.9.0 release and finding that it is taking an extremely long time -- much longer than previously. Here's my current table of revisions and build times: RakudoParrot Time needed for rakudo's "make" 2010.09 49192 2.8.0

Parrot 2.9.0 "Red-masked" supported release.

2010-10-19 Thread Gerd Pokorra
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 2.9.0 "Red-masked". Parrot [0] is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 2.9.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the download instructions [1]. For those who would like to develop on Parrot, or help dev