It's been damn near three weeks since my last post here, which is obnoxious but not entirely my fault. I moved into a new apartment which has been keeping me busy. Work has also been eating up my time, along with my longer commute.
Most of the Parrot work I've been doing in the past three weeks is plain-text: writing function-level documentation for the hundreds of undocumented functions in the Parrot codebase, and writing lots more content for the /docs/book. I'm also starting to do some work now in the new /branches/calling_conventions branch, which hopes to unify a bunch of related functions for calling PIR subroutines from C. We have over a dozen such functions, and my hope is to be able to whittle the number down significantly.
Other then that, I've still got the GC in the back of my mind, and when my schedule settles down a little bit (hopefully in November, after the wedding), I would like to kick development on that back into high gear. I don't know when Allison was planning to work on the GC milestone (MMD was just completed, and IO is next), but I don't think I need to wait for her to get the ball rolling for it.
Oddly, I get MORE done when I have longer commutes, mostly because I take the train and that means lots of 30 minute hacking increments.
