Re: PMC registry

2003-12-29 Thread Piers Cawley
Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Presumably this all means that Parrot will be able to due ruby-esque > iteration over all objects (if I may use the term PMC to refer to an > object ;-)) that have been created? ITYM "Smalltalkesque". HTH, HAND. > -- > Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Garbage Collection Tasks

2003-12-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
Well, two tasks actually. What with threads coming in, some of the limitations of a copying collector are becoming very apparent. While it's really nice, and just feels really cool, in the single-threaded case, neither nice nor cool justifies potentially massive headaches and synchronization i

Re: More object stuff

2003-12-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:02 PM + 12/27/03, Harry Jackson wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: Dunno if I replied, but... Next step is a higher level wrapper, if you're up for fiddling with Postgres itself. Stuff like a single call > to connect (right now you have to make the connect call and poll over and over again),

Re: Garbage Collection Tasks

2003-12-29 Thread Jeff Clites
On Dec 29, 2003, at 8:13 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: 2) We need a more traditional, non-moving GC as an alternative to the copying collector. A modified mark & sweep'd be fine, but as it'll be living behind the API it doesn't much matter. This is really only for the chunks of memory backing strings

a Parrot plugin for Mozilla

2003-12-29 Thread Stephane Peiry
Hi All, For some reason.. always wanted to be able to write (and get) perl applets on web browsers, so attached here is my go at a parrot plugin for Mozilla :) The files attached are: The plugin.tar is the one containing it mainly with some instructions on how to build it (and test it). Since I

Re: Garbage Collection Tasks

2003-12-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:28 AM -0800 12/29/03, Jeff Clites wrote: On Dec 29, 2003, at 8:13 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: 2) We need a more traditional, non-moving GC as an alternative to the copying collector. A modified mark & sweep'd be fine, but as it'll be living behind the API it doesn't much matter. This is really

I could not resist

2003-12-29 Thread Harry Jackson
I was searching on google for core.html parrot and the first link took me to http://www.gurney.co.uk/parrots/dandan.html Do we have a facilty for number 5. H

Re: I could not resist

2003-12-29 Thread Uri Guttman
> "HJ" == Harry Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HJ> I was searching on google for HJ> core.html parrot HJ> http://www.gurney.co.uk/parrots/dandan.html and if dan keeps leading parrot he will soon pluck out his own hairs (there is a name for this human neurotic disease). :) uri -

Problem during "make test"

2003-12-29 Thread Harry Jackson
During [EMAIL PROTECTED] parrot]$ make test echo imcc/imcc.y -d -o imcc/imcparser.c imcc/imcc.y -d -o imcc/imcparser.c perl -e 'open(A,qq{>>$_}) or die foreach @ARGV' imcc/imcc.y.flag imcc/imcparser.c imcc/imcparser.h perl t/harness --gc-debug --running-make-test -b t/op/*.t t/pmc/*.t t/native_

Re: a Parrot plugin for Mozilla

2003-12-29 Thread Sam Vilain
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:48, Stephane Peiry wrote; > For some reason.. always wanted to be able to write (and get) perl > applets on web browsers, so attached here is my go at a parrot plugin > for Mozilla :) Wow, fantastic! Now, wouldn't it be nice if someone wrote an ECMAScript front-end t

Re: More object stuff

2003-12-29 Thread Harry Jackson
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 1:02 PM + 12/27/03, Harry Jackson wrote: Being fairly new to parrot and probably naive I can see a few different ways of doing this. A C wrapper ie: parrot/classes/parrotdbi.pmc etc A C wrapper ie: parrot/dynclasses/parrotdbi.pmc etc A loadable pasm function library that