Re: The perl 6 parser

2003-01-08 Thread Joseph F. Ryan
Dan Sugalski wrote: Could one of the folks working on the perl 6 parser give us a status update as to where it stands? Which bits of the apocalypses don't work, and what parts of the regex definiton's not done yet? Things have stalled a bit, and I'd like to get it going again, and the perl 6

Re: The perl 6 parser

2003-01-08 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Could one of the folks working on the perl 6 parser give us a status > update as to where it stands? languages/perl6/README mostly reflects the status with respect to the language definition of about 4-5 months ago. Differences include: - IIRC hyper-assi

Re: More thougths on DOD

2003-01-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Mitchell N Charity wrote: Summary: its slower :-( :( Yep Calculating the flags position in the pool in pobject_lives() and free_unused_pobjects() takes more time then the smaller cache foot_print does gain. Two reasons: positions have to be calced twice and cache is more

LXR - source-code indexing

2003-01-08 Thread Zach Lipton
I am pleased to announce that LXR has been installed on perl.org to index the source of parrot and perl5 (additional modules, such as perl6, can be added as needed). So, you might be asking: "What is LXR?" LXR is a source-code indexing tool that was originally developed for the Linux kernel. With

This week's summary

2003-01-08 Thread p6summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030105 Hello and welcome to the first summary of 2003, welcome to the future. This summary covers 2 weeks, but they've been quietish what with Christmas and the New Year. So, starting as usual with perl6-internals A pile of patches to the

The perl 6 parser

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
Could one of the folks working on the perl 6 parser give us a status update as to where it stands? Which bits of the apocalypses don't work, and what parts of the regex definiton's not done yet? Things have stalled a bit, and I'd like to get it going again, and the perl 6 tests into the standar

Re: [perl #19834] [PATCH] sub, add, mul, div with combinations of INT, NUM, PMC

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:41 PM + 1/8/03, Bernhard Schmalhofer (via RT) wrote: I have been looking into the possibility of adding complex numbers as PMCs. When looking at core.ops I was missing some operations, where INT, NUM and PMC interact. For addition I found the operations: add_i_i, add_n_n, add_p_i, add_p_n

[perl #19834] [PATCH] sub, add, mul, div with combinations of INT, NUM, PMC

2003-01-08 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #19834] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=19834 > Hi, I have been looking into the possibility of adding complex numbers as PMCs.

Re: [perl #19807] [PATCH] rx.ops doc typos

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:09 PM + 1/7/03, Jim Radford (via RT) wrote: I found a few typos while reading through the documentation in rx.ops. Applied, thanks. -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski

Re: More thougths on DOD

2003-01-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:15 PM -0500 1/6/03, Mitchell N Charity wrote: +pool_pmc[i] = memalign(ALIGN, SIZE*sizeof(PMC)); This is the only problem--memalign's not universal unless we build with the malloc we provide. Have we looked into whether we can mix this malloc with the current memory allocation sys

Re: More thougths on DOD

2003-01-08 Thread Mitchell N Charity
Summary: its slower :-( :( Calculating the flags position in the pool in pobject_lives() and free_unused_pobjects() takes more time then the smaller cache foot_print does gain. Two reasons: positions have to be calced twice and cache is more stressed with other things, IMHO. Hm

Re: This week's Perl Summary

2003-01-08 Thread Piers Cawley
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan-04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> Damian Conway wrote: >> >> >Piers Cawley wrote: >> > >> >>Acknowledgements >> > >> >But, of course, modesty forebade him from thanking the tireless Perl 6 >> >summarizer himself, for his sterling efforts wading through

Re: More thougths on DOD

2003-01-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Mitchell N Charity wrote: The attached patch adds a scheme where: - gc flags are in the pool, and - pmc->pool mapping is done with aligned pools and pmc pointer masking. Observations: - It's fast. (The _test_ is anyway.) I did try it and some more in realiter. Summary: its slower :-( Ca

Re: Object semantics

2003-01-08 Thread Piers Cawley
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Absolutely. It makes things generally faster and easier for perl, and > doesn't affect python or ruby. Yeah, I know, immutable values make a > number of static compilation things better with sufficient engineering > resources, but we're not particularly st