incremental collector and finalization

2004-09-19 Thread Jeff Clites
Hi Leo: I was reading over you incremental GC posts from about a month ago, and read the referenced paper--quite nice work you've done in implementing the ideas there. I have one question: What about finalizers? I may have just missed it, but it would seem that calling finalizers would require

Re: Pipeline Performance

2004-09-19 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's actually a very good idea. That's why Perl 6 has it :-) > > sub MediansBy5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) { > gather { > while @list >= 5 { # there's no .length; it's .elems > take (sort @list.splice(0,5))[2]; > }

Re: What Requires Core Support (app packaging)

2004-09-19 Thread Richard Proctor
On Sun 19 Sep, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > >> Archimedes. It doesn't allow them at all, from what I understand. > > > > It probably doesn't disallow file extensions [per se], but the dot > > Could be. I haven't used it personally. The name should be Risc-OS - the Archimedes is one of t

Re: What Requires Core Support (app packaging)Z

2004-09-19 Thread Adam D. Lopresto
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >As a special case, if the "filename" argument to perl is a > >directory, and the directory contains a file named "main.pl", > >then the directory is prepended to @*INC, and main.pl is

Re: __init not being magically called?

2004-09-19 Thread Jens Rieks
On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:37, William Coleda wrote: > Didn't __init used to get magically called when you new'd a class? I just > had Tcl go all pear shaped after updated to cvs-latest, and tracked it down > to my instances of a class (TclWord) not getting intialized. Which I don't > seem to h

[perl #31629] Parrot test failures on t/pmc/signal

2004-09-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by me # Please include the string: [perl #31629] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31629 > t/pmc/signalNOK 2# Failed test (t/pmc/signal.t at line 65) t/pmc/signal

[perl #31634] [BUG] -G masking parrot failure from TCL

2004-09-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #31634] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31634 > Just committed some patches to languages/tcl to make it start passing all tests again.

__init not being magically called?

2004-09-19 Thread William Coleda
Didn't __init used to get magically called when you new'd a class? I just had Tcl go all pear shaped after updated to cvs-latest, and tracked it down to my instances of a class (TclWord) not getting intialized. Which I don't seem to have done manually before. .local int tclword tclword = find_