Re: Parallel GC for parrot - does it make sense?

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan Parvu
The three schemes currently implemented are generational, stop-the-world mark-and-sweep, and incremental mark-and-sweep. The generational GC implementation is not complete yet. The default GC scheme at the moment is stop-the-world mark-and-sweep. For the 1.0 release the default will likely be

Re: Parallel GC for parrot - does it make sense?

2007-10-06 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi, Allison Randal wrote: It's worth exploring, and may lead to other experiments in parallel GC.. Parrot allows multiple different GC systems, so you shouldn't encounter significant problems on the Parrot side, but if you do, let us know and we'll fix them. I don't know if Harmony's parallel

Re: Perl 6 on Solaris 10 anyone ?

2006-03-30 Thread Stefan Parvu
platform. This will help the Perl community to have a good taste of Solaris when Perl 6 would be out :=) Cheers, Stefan Stefan Parvu Blog: http://stefanparvu.blogspot.com

Re: Perl 6 on Solaris 10 anyone ?

2006-03-29 Thread Stefan Parvu
> I'm not aware of any pre-built packages, but the > Parrot VM should build > and past most of its tests on either Solaris x86 or > SPARC. Right. I will give a spin under Solaris Express (aka Nevada, Solaris 11) AMD64. > > There is no official "Perl6" yet, but there is > considerable developm

Perl 6 on Solaris 10 anyone ?

2006-03-28 Thread Stefan Parvu
Hi, Any experiments with Perl6/Parrot and Solaris Express or Solaris 10 ? Im curious how much the language has changed and how well the new VM would work in Solaris ... Is there any Solaris x86 or sparc package of the new Parrot VM ? thanks,