Re: TODO for 2.0

2010-04-19 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Apr 19, 2010, at 05:33, Andy Wingo wrote: > Dunno. To be able to write in native endianness and actually see > benefits, the data needs to be aligned, too. Integer widths are > generally chosen as some point in the size/speed vs generality tradeoff. > I would be very hesitant about poking some o

Re: TODO for 2.0

2010-04-19 Thread Julian Graham
Hi Andy, > I'll add this to my list, then. Is there no smaller test case than > compiling the entire wrapper module? Does this problem occur with > smaller libraries as well? I would love to have a simple test case that > I can run on master. I'll spelunk on your branch, though, if that's > neces

Re: TODO for 2.0

2010-04-19 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Sun 18 Apr 2010 22:53, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> * some bytecode tweaks >> - function prologues can be shorter in the common case >> - perhaps docstrings should take less space in objcode, by allowing >>them to be specified positi

Re: TODO for 2.0

2010-04-19 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Julian, On Sun 18 Apr 2010 17:57, Julian Graham writes: > "Unbound variable" errors during `make' but not when compiling from > the REPL. > [0] - http://www.mail-archive.com/guile-devel@gnu.org/msg05278.html I'll add this to my list, then. Is there no smaller test case than compiling the en

Re: TODO for 2.0

2010-04-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Andy, Andy Wingo writes: > * some bytecode tweaks > - function prologues can be shorter in the common case > - perhaps docstrings should take less space in objcode, by allowing >them to be specified positionally in the program metadata, >removing need to embed 'doc

Re: TODO for 2.0

2010-04-18 Thread Julian Graham
Hi Andy, > Please feel free to reply with your own lists. Please reply only with > things that you feel must be dealt with before 2.0, by somebody, or > things that you personally plan to work on (blocker or not). Unless R6RS-lib is something that can be merged in a subsequent 2.0.x stable relea

Re: TODO for 2.0

2010-04-17 Thread Mike Gran
Hi Andy, > From: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com > Please reply only with things that you feel must > be dealt with before 2.0, by somebody, or > things that you personally plan to work on (blocker or > not). Reenable Turkish casing tests in i18n.test. Check for a BOM if the encoding is UTF-16 or

TODO for 2.0

2010-04-17 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi all, I would like to share my personal list of things to do before 2.0. * some bytecode tweaks - function prologues can be shorter in the common case - perhaps docstrings should take less space in objcode, by allowing them to be specified positionally in the program metadata