I just finished the skeleton of the PMC/string (and soon bigint/bigfloat) allocation system and checked it in. This meant a lot of changes to stuff all over the place. (As a side-effect, we lost the standalone string testing)
I think we're now in a position to start dealing with our own memory allocator and PMCs, and I'll start in on that soonish. Please note that until we actually *get* an arena allocation system with GC, parrot will leak. (A lot... :) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk