Re: pbc-backref branch ready for testing/merging

2011-01-15 Thread chromatic
On Friday 14 January 2011 at 18:43, Peter Lobsinger wrote: > moritz++ also reports that rakudo spectest is noticeably faster, > however I have been unable to reproduce anything beyond roughly a 10% > improvement (still feels downright glacial to me). All Rakudo tests pass for me as well, and they

Re: pbc-backref branch ready for testing/merging

2011-01-15 Thread Andrew Whitworth
First off, Great job! This is the kind of really great performance improvement that we've been needing, and plobsing delivers. I've been doing some limited testing here and everything is looking great. Getting this branch merged into master should be a big priority after the release. --Andrew Whit

Re: pbc-backref branch ready for testing/merging

2011-01-14 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 01/15/2011 03:43 AM, Peter Lobsinger wrote: > Here are some of the improvements this branch brings: > * rakudo perl6.pbc size: 65% smaller > * rakudo hello-world machine instructions: 23% fewer > * rakudo repl RSS: 33% les

pbc-backref branch ready for testing/merging

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Lobsinger
The pbc-backref branch is complete in terms of features and passes fulltest and rakudo-spectest. It is my intent to merge this immediately after the release. This is well encapsulated from nearly everything, so there are no expected difficulties, however, please run whatever tests you feel are appr