On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Nov 27 14:08:00 2007, pmichaud wrote: >> Today we cleaned up a lot of the unused branches of the >> Parrot repository. One of the branches that remains is >> the 'gcm' branch, created by "heimdall" and last updated >> on 2005-09-13. Supposedly this is an implementation of >> a generational gc algorithm for Parrot. >> >> Although it may be a bit of work because the branch is >> so old, it may be worthwhile to bring this branch back >> into the trunk, or conclusively determine that the branch >> has already been merged into the trunk, or that it's >> not worth pursing. >> >> Pm > > Andrew, chromatic, can you answer this question for us? Is the work being > done for SOC this > semester going to obviate the need to merge this branch back to trunk?
the GMC branch is very old, looks like it was last updated to version 0.2.2 of the parrot repo. Since then, apparently there have been some significant changes to some central data structures, and some changes to the architecture. Based on what i've seen today, I would venture to say (and chromatic might have a different opinion of this) that it is not worthwhile to merge this branch back to trunk. I am going to see if any individual algorithms or functions can be salvaged from this, but I don't have high hopes. --Andrew Whitworth
