[PATCH] Re: Is there a way to turn GC completely off?

2002-04-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:55 PM +0200 4/14/02, Peter Gibbs wrote: >The specific problem Clinton mentioned is yet another infant mortality >problem, this time in string_concat. I don't know what the current decision >is on handling these situations, but this one can be avoided by optimising >the code anyway. If the tra

Re: [PATCH] Re: Is there a way to turn GC completely off?

2002-04-15 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
At 01:05 AM 4/15/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Clint, in terms of getting things in Parrot fixed, I think it's better if >you can provide a way to generate the bug, no matter how complex the case >is. Non-simple test cases are better than no test cases at all, imo. Okay. Good. I won't spend a *terrib

Re: [PATCH] Re: Is there a way to turn GC completely off?

2002-04-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 01:05:41AM -0400, Mike Lambert wrote: > > As a follow-up, I found one bug. Rather odd it is. The symptom is loading > > a program, doing a LIST > > and seeing only part of the code. Dumping the > > string-which-contains-the-code you can see the entire program in it (unli

Re: [PATCH] Re: Is there a way to turn GC completely off?

2002-04-14 Thread Mike Lambert
> As a follow-up, I found one bug. Rather odd it is. The symptom is loading > a program, doing a LIST > and seeing only part of the code. Dumping the > string-which-contains-the-code you can see the entire program in it (unlike > the earlier described bug). The problem was in here: Clint, in

Re: [PATCH] Re: Is there a way to turn GC completely off?

2002-04-14 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
At 08:55 PM 4/14/2002 +0200, Peter Gibbs wrote: >The specific problem Clinton mentioned is yet another infant mortality >problem, this time in string_concat. I don't know what the current decision >is on handling these situations, but this one can be avoided by optimising >the code anyway. If the

Re: [PATCH] Re: Is there a way to turn GC completely off?

2002-04-14 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
At 08:55 PM 4/14/2002 +0200, Peter Gibbs wrote: >The specific problem Clinton mentioned is yet another infant mortality >problem, this time in string_concat. I don't know what the current decision >is on handling these situations, but this one can be avoided by optimising >the code anyway. If the

[PATCH] Re: Is there a way to turn GC completely off?

2002-04-14 Thread Peter Gibbs
The specific problem Clinton mentioned is yet another infant mortality problem, this time in string_concat. I don't know what the current decision is on handling these situations, but this one can be avoided by optimising the code anyway. If the transcoding is done before making the result string,