Hi Coke, Andrew, Chromatic, I have not considered this branch as a candidate for research on the Parrot GC, but had a look @ it. As it seems, it wouldn't be of much use as its *quite* old.
Regards, Senaka On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Will Coleda via RT < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Jun 09 17:13:42 2008, Whiteknight wrote: > > 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 > > > > Given this analysis, I'd recommend deleting the branch. Assigning the > ticket to Andrew, he can delete the branch (carefully! =) when he's > completed his GSOC work. > > -- > Will "Coke" Coleda >
