Re: The Perl 6 Essentials book

2003-05-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Dan" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> Now, this book is on a tight schedule and, as such, went through a Dan> small tech edit phase. The more people you have the longer it takes, Dan> and this was moving reasonably quickly. (OTOH, the folks doing tech Dan> edit were competen

Re: An experimental Wiki for parrot development

2003-05-27 Thread Mitchell N Charity
Stephane Payrard writes: I found one central concept of Wikis very insufficient: wikiwords [... an alternative ...] I don't know how difficult it would be to do. Hmm, that sounds like wiki research. Which I'll leave to others. The parrot development wiki simply uses off-the-shelf wiki te

Native code

2003-05-27 Thread Bill Atkins
Am I correct in assuming that Parrot's JIT will eventually be able to produce directly-executable files, like .exe's? Bill

Re: An experimental Wiki for parrot development

2003-05-27 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 06:35:12PM -0400, Mitchell N Charity wrote: > I've long wondered whether having a wiki, a place to put things, might > aid parrot development. A place to easily collaborate on documentation. > To record thoughts which might help others. To point at resources. > > So, to h

An experimental Wiki for parrot development

2003-05-27 Thread Mitchell N Charity
I've long wondered whether having a wiki, a place to put things, might aid parrot development. A place to easily collaborate on documentation. To record thoughts which might help others. To point at resources. So, to help us explore the possibilities, there is now An experimental Wiki for Par

Re: IMCC, PASM and constants/macros

2003-05-27 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 08:01, Clinton A. Pierce wrote: > At 11:57 PM 5/26/2003 -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > >Perhaps "macros only work in assembler mode" is the issue? > > > >http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg14107.html > > > >Regards. > > It was, but I was looking for the "why" of it

Re: Add #22337

2003-05-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:03 PM +0200 5/27/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>... . We need some tests, from which size memory is >>cleard for malloc and memalign. >>I tossed the memset for now and saved ~450.000 L2-misses or ~0.2 s. > While I didn't see any memsets in smallobject

Re: Add #22337

2003-05-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:10 PM -0400 5/27/03, Uri Guttman wrote: > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> obviously gets called for memalign - at least for this arena size) >> does clear the memory. We need some tests, from which size memory is >> cleard for malloc and memalign. >> I tossed

Re: Add #22337

2003-05-27 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> obviously gets called for memalign - at least for this arena size) >> does clear the memory. We need some tests, from which size memory is >> cleard for malloc and memalign. >> I tossed the memset for now and saved ~450.000 L2-miss

Re: [perl #22333] [PATCH] IO on bad file descriptors

2003-05-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:59 PM + 5/26/03, "Bryan C. Warnock" (via RT) wrote: The following patch fixes the internal problem that was causing the core dumps I mentioned in follow-ups to #22330. Both fixes within io.ops are obviously incomplete - an exception needs to be generated for attempting to conduct IO oper

Re: Add #22337

2003-05-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:03 PM +0200 5/27/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Some additional remarks: The "memset" in smallobject.c is not necessary on Linux. mmap() (which obviously gets called for memalign - at least for this arena size) does clear the memory. We need some tests, from which size memory is cleard for mallo

Add #22337

2003-05-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Some additional remarks: The "memset" in smallobject.c is not necessary on Linux. mmap() (which obviously gets called for memalign - at least for this arena size) does clear the memory. We need some tests, from which size memory is cleard for malloc and memalign. I tossed the memset for now and s