Re: [PATCH] discarding the unborn

2002-03-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:28 AM -0500 3/29/02, Michel J Lambert wrote: > > Wow, you've got a couple of major patches floating around that are >> getting ignored. I don't feel so bad now. :-) > >Yeah, that's why I'm combining all the GC patches into one big patch, in >the hopes it'll make it more appliable. I apolog

Re: [PATCH] discarding the unborn

2002-03-29 Thread Michel J Lambert
> Wow, you've got a couple of major patches floating around that are > getting ignored. I don't feel so bad now. :-) Yeah, that's why I'm combining all the GC patches into one big patch, in the hopes it'll make it more appliable. The only things I've sent out and am awaiting feedback for are the

Re: [PATCH] discarding the unborn

2002-03-28 Thread Steve Fink
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 02:14:09AM -0500, Michel J Lambert wrote: > FWIW, I've already submitted a patch which fixes this bug. I'm also about > to submit a patch which fixes it in a slightly better way, along with a > few of other (mostly GC) bugs I've tracked down tonight with the help of > clint

Re: [PATCH] discarding the unborn

2002-03-28 Thread Steve Fink
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:54:00AM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote: > At 10:30 PM 3/28/2002 -0800, Steve Fink wrote: > >When you call pmc_new, the init() routine is run before the PMC is > >anchored to the root set. This is a problem for things like > >aggregates, because they are likely to want to allo

Re: [PATCH] discarding the unborn

2002-03-28 Thread Michel J Lambert
FWIW, I've already submitted a patch which fixes this bug. I'm also about to submit a patch which fixes it in a slightly better way, along with a few of other (mostly GC) bugs I've tracked down tonight with the help of clint's wonderfully abusive code. The original email was: http:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PATCH] discarding the unborn

2002-03-28 Thread Melvin Smith
At 10:30 PM 3/28/2002 -0800, Steve Fink wrote: >When you call pmc_new, the init() routine is run before the PMC is >anchored to the root set. This is a problem for things like >aggregates, because they are likely to want to allocate a big Buffer >during initialization. And disabling GC entirely ju

[PATCH] discarding the unborn

2002-03-28 Thread Steve Fink
When you call pmc_new, the init() routine is run before the PMC is anchored to the root set. This is a problem for things like aggregates, because they are likely to want to allocate a big Buffer during initialization. And disabling GC entirely just feels wrong -- especially with pmc_new_sized, it