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<Tene> Who's here?
<davidfetter> me
* moritz lurks
<Auzon> I'm lurking as well.
<Whiteknight> i'm lurking too
* spinclad skulks
* Whiteknight hopes he won't have to talk at the meeting!
<cognominal> yet another lurker
<particle> Whiteknight: you should have a report pre-typed
<moritz> Whiteknight: I think you'll have to, so better prepare a report ;)
<particle> meeting is in ~50mins
<Whiteknight> ...damnit! one more thing for me to work on!
<cotto_work> I'm not
<cotto_work> I mean am
* Whiteknight hurries off to start typing
<moritz> Whiteknight: you have nearly an hour ;)
<Whiteknight> i know, but i have to run to the bank too. Time is always in short supply!
<particle> unless you have money
* Whiteknight is unemployed and has no money :(
<Whiteknight> okay, have to run. be back for the meeting!
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<moritz> now we're double logged
<paco> I have tell my client to log everything ..
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<chromatic> Greetings.
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<jonathan> ahoyte
<allison> hiya
<pmichaud> hello.
<jhorwitz> yo
<particle> ciao
<Whiteknight> hello
<chromatic> No Coke, so let's start.
<chromatic> allison?
<allison> - I spent the week tracking down and fixing bugs in the Concurrency branch.
<allison> - Added a 'branchcc' op that acts like a bsr but is continuation-based, so it's safe to use with Parrot subroutines and exceptions.
<allison> EOR
<chromatic> I fixed several bugs.
<chromatic> I applied several patches.
<chromatic> I made CONST_STRING work in all PMCs (even dynpmcs and language PMCs) and am working on a caching system for truly constant const strings.
<chromatic> I have some other small fixes to PMCs in the works.
<chromatic> jhorwitz?
<jhorwitz> completed an implementation of ModPerl6::Registry.
<jhorwitz> working on slides for YAPC/OSCON and publishing live examples on smashing.org
<jhorwitz> parrot revs after r27801 break mod_perl6 with method resolution errors.  out of my league, so putting together a test case so others can debug.
<jhorwitz> EOR
<chromatic> jonathan?
<jonathan> * Finished with the talks for a while; ones in France seemed to be well received, and also gave one at Vienna.pm last night that I think was OK.
<jonathan> * Handed mutables work over to pmichaud, who did a great job of merging it all into trunk
<jonathan> * Did some patches at the airport on the way back from France, which mostly broke things and got reverted.
<jonathan> * One of them was for a GC bug that was causing errors in Rakudo, especially in interactive mode, and would probably hit other languages using lexicals too. My patch wasn't quite right - seemed to cause infinite recursion in the marking of contexts - so the GC bug still needs fixing. Not had chance to look at it again yet.
<jonathan> * Did some other little bits and pieces that worked out OK, including smart matching on junctions and preparing mutables to support ro (read only).
<jonathan> * Now talks are over, it's back to the hacking; will have Rakudo day later on this week. Planning to get role composition working some more, and also do the IMCC hacking required to get us :instanceof(...) adverb for subs. Plus get some tests in place for things that work, but aren't tested yet, so we don't get regressions.
<jonathan> * Got a grant from DeepText in Russia, to do an extra day a week on Rakudo during July, and will spend these extra days on trying to get MMD working the Perl 6 way.
<jonathan> EOR
<chromatic> particle?
<particle> ~ coordinating the purchase of parrot.org, paperwork is now under review by tpf
<particle> ~ mainly working on rakudo's test system in the past week, applied patches from bacek++, moritz++
<particle> ~ had trouble building parrot for a bit, turns out i needed a fresh checkout. no idea why
<particle> ~ hoping to concentrate on presentations and related commits this week
<particle> .end
<chromatic> pmichaud?
<pmichaud> ** Rakudo spectest_regression:  55 files, 638 passing tests  (+16, +344 from last #parrotsketch)
<pmichaud> Nearly everything I did this week was Rakudo focused.
<pmichaud> == Rakudo stuff
<pmichaud> : Did major refactors updates of List and other classes
<pmichaud> : List context now works (e.g.,   my @a = 1;  my @b = (@a, (1, 2), 3);  )
<pmichaud> : 'hash' composer now works   ( my %h = hash(a=>1, b=>2); )
<pmichaud> : Applied many patches from contributors (bacek++, dolmen++, moritz++)
<pmichaud> : Merged jonathan++'s mutable branch with trunk (still need some work there)
<pmichaud> : Cleaned up variable handling in actions.pm
<pmichaud> : Started refactoring parameter declarations
<pmichaud> : *Lots* of other little improvements and changes
<pmichaud> == PCT stuff
<pmichaud> : minor improvements to PAST nodes
<pmichaud> ** queue one question
<pmichaud> ** plans for this week: more rakudo, close more RT tickets from the Rakudo queue, add more useful features.  May get to PGE refactoring.
<pmichaud> EOR
<chromatic> Tene, are you here?
<Tene> I think so.
<Tene> looks like I did some work on the cardinal class hierarchy and aggregates.
<Tene> Started work on a smalltalk grammar, but ran into trouble debugging it.
<Tene> .eor
<chromatic> Whiteknight?
<Whiteknight> * created gsoc_pdd09 branch. 
<Whiteknight> * set up some basic data structures for the new GC
<Whiteknight> * Prototyped pool initializers and new object allocators
<Whiteknight> * Setup basics of dod run algorithm and tricolor mark system
<Whiteknight> one question to log
<Whiteknight> EOR
<chromatic> Did I miss anyone?
<chromatic> Okay.  pmichaud has the first question.
<pmichaud> allison:  How much slower (or faster) is branchcc compared to bsr/ret?
<pmichaud> (I'm not at all advocating we keep bsr/ret, I'm just curious.)
<allison> it creates a continuation an then jumps to a lable
<allison> so, slightly slower
<chromatic> Except that it doesn't do as much GCable work.
<pmichaud> still faster than a full subroutine or method call, though?
<allison> but, if we do ever remove bsr (not deprecated yet) that means we can entirely eliminate the stack
<allison> much faster
<pmichaud> also nice because I don't have to pass a lot of registers around.  At any rate, allison++ for that
<allison> aside from capturing a continuation it's just a 'goto'
<pmichaud> end of question for me.
<chromatic> Whiteknight?
<Whiteknight> GC-related question (obviously)
<Whiteknight> why do we hard-code GC initializer functions into src/gc/memory.c:mem_setup_allocator and not use a function pointer in Arenas like we do for deinit?
<allison> no good reason
<Whiteknight> ...and if that changed...?
<chromatic> We could get rid of that #ifdef tree.
<allison> if it changed, and all the tests still pass, no complaints
<Whiteknight> exactly, that's what I want to do
<Whiteknight> okay. end of question.
<chromatic> My question: NotFound and moritz seem like they're well on their way to getting commit bits.
<chromatic> Thoughts?
<pmichaud> +1
<moritz> chromatic: jonathan invited me to one
<moritz> already sent CLA
<chromatic> That's easy enough.
<allison> +1 _1
<allison> er, +1 +1, that is
<pmichaud> bacek may also be a good candidate for a commit bit in the very near future
<chromatic> I'm not yet sick of applying bacek's patches... but I agree there too.
<particle> we're a happy family
<particle> i've applied quite a few of bacek's patches as well, they're all sane
<chromatic> Alright, I'll mentor NotFound.
<chromatic> Are there any other questions?
<pmichaud> if moritz needs a mentor, I volunteer either myself or particle :-P
<chromatic> Is anyone blocking on anything other than time, or a supply of fruit-flavored jellybeans?
<pmichaud> I'm definitely low on fruit-flavored jellybeans.  And time.  Other than those items, no blockers.
<pmichaud> BTW, allison++ for quick resolution on named argument handling last week
<pmichaud> (thank you.)
<particle> i volunteer myself or pmichaud as well
<chromatic> Alright, let's wrap up this week then.  Good work everyone.
<pmichaud> reminder:  parrot hackathon sat-sun june 14-15
<allison> thanks all!
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