Re: Ulterior Reference Counting for DoD?

On 25/03/2004, at 9:01 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, Two-line summary: * gives as good performance as the best generational garbage collectors today, with All these gen

Re: Safety and security

On 25/03/2004, at 2:39 PM, Steve Fink wrote: On Mar-24, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:36 PM +1100 3/24/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/03/2004, at 6:38 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: This is a question without a simple answer, but does Parrot provide an infrastructure so that it would be possible to have

Ulterior Reference Counting for DoD?

Hi guys, I know approximately zero about the DoD and GC mechanisms which are currently used by Parrot, but I did attend a talk a few weeks ago about a promising new method of garbage collection called Ulterior Reference Counting:

Re: Safety and security

On 24/03/2004, at 6:38 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At any rate, perl 5's Safe module is a good example of the Wrong Way to do security, and as such we're going to take it as a cautionary tale rather than a template. For security I want to go with an explicit privilege model with privilege checking

Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compilin g all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

On 23/03/2004, at 12:24 PM, Matt Fowles wrote: I could be getting things mixed up here, but I thought I read that GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) is part of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection). Although I might be misreading this paper slightly http://home.in.tum.de/~baueran/thesis/ GHC can optionally

Re: GCC for PARROT (GCC Compiling itself to PARROT, then compilin g all supported languages to PARROT from PARROT)?!?!

On 23/03/2004, at 6:23 AM, Matt Fowles wrote: If I recall correctly, GCC supports Haskell, which is an ideal language for Parrot. GCC doesn't support Haskell -- perhaps the compiler you're thinking of is GHC? (Glasgow Haskell Compiler). I'm starting to look at implementing a Haskell to Parrot