SKIPs Are Now a Code Smell

2006-08-19 Thread chromatic
I just made two checkins to unskip a couple of reasonably valid tests. Currently, there are around 450 skipped tests for all of Parrot, which is a sizable number when compared to the total number of tests in the system. This concerns me, for at least three reasons. First, the ratio of skips to

Re: [perl #40204] line numbers of runtime errors are one too low

2006-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Aug 19, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Am Samstag, 19. August 2006 23:30 schrieb Chip Salzenberg: Runtime errors seem to be off by one these days. Not "these days" - since a long time. There's a ticket [1] for that already. leo [1] http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.

Re: Mono, Bundles, and Ahead-Of-Time Compilation

2006-08-19 Thread C.J. Collier
On 8/19/06, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Freitag, 18. August 2006 21:57 schrieb chromatic: > Miguel de Icaza recently posted some thoughts about improving startup time > and memory usage of multiple Mono applications. What ideas can we steal > and improve? We have the basics o

Re: [perl #40204] line numbers of runtime errors are one too low

2006-08-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Samstag, 19. August 2006 23:30 schrieb Chip Salzenberg: > Runtime errors seem to be off by one these days. Not "these days" - since a long time. There's a ticket [1] for that already. leo [1] http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=38594 and WTF - who dared to close that (coke--

Re: Mono, Bundles, and Ahead-Of-Time Compilation

2006-08-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Sonntag, 20. August 2006 00:26 schrieb C.J. Collier: > > We have the basics of "AOT" since quite a time. > > > > leo > > Branch?  Path? Url? trunk! src/exec*.c! leo

[perl #40204] line numbers of runtime errors are one too low

2006-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Chip Salzenberg # Please include the string: [perl #40204] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40204 > Runtime errors seem to be off by one these days. Anybody play with line numbering re

Re: [perl #38887] Result of INFINITY or NAN stringification is platform dependent

2006-08-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:21:11PM -0700, Bill Coffman wrote: > That being said, you can optimize by looking at the bits. Wikipedia > explains IEEE-754 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 > First, you have to be aware if the machine is big or little-endian, second, Beware. It's legal for the e

Re: multi-line comments, C macros, & Pod abuse

2006-08-19 Thread Daniel Hulme
> "Stuart Cook" schreef: > > Larry Wall: > > >> if 0 { > >> ... > >> } > > > > The one disadvantage of that approach is that it will break if the > > "commented-out" code temporarily fails to compile. > > How frequent does that happen? All the time. I often comment out bits of code wh

Re: multi-line comments, C macros, & Pod abuse

2006-08-19 Thread Dr.Ruud
"Stuart Cook" schreef: > Larry Wall: >> if 0 { >> ... >> } > > The one disadvantage of that approach is that it will break if the > "commented-out" code temporarily fails to compile. How frequent does that happen? And in that case s/if 0/\#/, as Luke mentioned. And if the compile fai

Re: [perl #40200] t/pmc/threads.t test 16 fails under JIT (parrot -j)

2006-08-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Samstag, 19. August 2006 06:11 schrieb Chip Salzenberg: > After the STM merge, all of t/pmc/threads.t succeeds (woggle++). > But one of the tests fails under JIT.  I'm hoping that somebody > will recognize the reason quickly, else I'll have to dive in... It is not JIT related. The test is faili

Re: multi-line comments, C macros, & Pod abuse

2006-08-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 02:26:28AM +, Luke Palmer wrote: > On 8/19/06, Aaron Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You don't actually need a macro in that case: > > > >if 0 { q< > >... > >> } > > Which, of course, eliminates the original desire to have a > code-commenting constru

Re: Mono, Bundles, and Ahead-Of-Time Compilation

2006-08-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Freitag, 18. August 2006 21:57 schrieb chromatic: > Miguel de Icaza recently posted some thoughts about improving startup time > and memory usage of multiple Mono applications. What ideas can we steal > and improve? We have the basics of "AOT" since quite a time. It's termed EXEC run core in