The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 22 October 2008. Larry, Patrick, Allison, Will, Jerry, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.
Patrick:
- mostly answering questions about Rakudo design
- continuing to work on namespace handling there and in PCT
- continued to work in my head on the lexicals implementation
- have a little code there too
Larry:
- looking into shoulder surgery in the next couple of weeks
- decided that I didn't like the
infix:where operator, so I changed it to also to better indicate the leftness to rightness of it - working on cutting down the size of the lexer cache in the world of STD and gimme
- they used to take up 3 GB and now they're down to 450 MB
- that's by not caching anonymous grammars which they throw away at the end of the current process anyway
- there's still a long way to go on that
- if you do a bzipped tar of the lex directory, it ends up with a 200:1 compression
- still lots of room for removing redundency
- while I'm looking at lexer caching, I'm trying to figure out the best strategy for getting rid of TRE
- half of the code just works around its bugs
- it'd be simpler and probably faster with something more straightforward
- otherwise little bugs and answering questions
Patrick:
- you also added usage information to
viv - thank you
Larry:
- I abandoned my goal last week of getting it to spit out Perl 6
- sidetracked into hacking on the lexer
- other people started to use it
- but the way they're trying to use it, it runs slowly
- I'm looking at ways of speeding that up
c:
- fixed a lot of bugs last week
- in particular, some of the MMD fallout
- blockers for mod_parrot
- we may be able to get under 600 open bugs by the end of the month
- hopefully under 500 by the end of the year
- otherwise looking forward to lots of Parrot cleanups
Nicholas:
- getting close to a RC for Perl 5.8.9
Allison:
- just flew to SF yesterday and back today
c:
- and boy are her arms tired
Allison:
- spent a lot of time on release bugfixing
- answering questions
- closing tickets
- made the significant TGE change we talked about last week
- updating the calling conventions branch
- then creating the IO branch
- those are my tasks for today
Jesse:
- talked to Richard a little bit about grants
Jerry:
- just released 0.8.0 yesterday
- we fixed a lot of bugs on the way to the release
- but we released it with more than I would have liked
- can't say why that is
- two big branch merges though, the MMD and HLL magic branches
- but we need to address our automated test environment and smokers
- we'll concentrate on that at the Developer's Summit in November
- sent out a survey to the mailing list
- starting to get responses
- going to the GSoC mentor summit on Friday night, come back Sunday evening
- at Mountain View
