Re: NCI 't' parameter type removed; no replacement?

Hi, I raised my concern about the removal of NCI signatures breaking Zavolaj on 27 April. I received what I felt was a very curt response from Peter suggesting that: "PCRE's pcre_compile function also makes use of pass-by-reference. This binding has been updated to the new API and makes a good re

Re: tt1931-nci-parameters-deprecation branch ready for testing

Hi Peter, The V type signature is used on an experimental branch in Zavolaj. See here: https://github.com/jnthn/zavolaj/blob/out_params/lib/NativeCall.pm6 In TT #1931 there is mention of a more general call-by-reference system.

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

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: GC refactor ahead

Allison, I hacked out arena based GC and hacked in Boehm GC several months back. IIRC for an execution run of compiled Rakudo code the performance difference was minimal. Reading the IRClog it chimes with what I remember - it would appear to be due to the fact that so many short-lived objects are