The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 28 April 2010. Larry, Allison,
Jerry, Will, and chromatic attended.
Larry:
- caught up on a week's worth of backlog
- made a few spec tweaks
- discussed them with other people
- trying to make error messages more awesome in STD
- working on the ability to parse the insides of character classes
- STD doesn't like parsing itself recursively there
- need to iron out a few things
- enum names can now be variables
Allison:
- Debian packages ready to ship to Debian sponsors
- putting together a list of GC tasks
- cleaned out the existing page, have the big things listed
- trying to decide which tasks to do first
- doing a lot of reading and research
- my little language project is due on Monday
- HLLCompiler was enormously useful
- will start working on the GC stuff next week
- should also start a fresh pass through the ticket queue
- added a workaround for the final remaining TT #389 bug
- Jonathan had a test case
Will:
- tried to focus on getting Rakudo blockers removed
c:
- spent some time getting Rakudo to work with trunk
- will need a Rakudo guts hacker for the last part
- worked on the compact_string revamp branch with Vasily
- merged now
- that makes trunk about 12% faster than the 2.3.0 release
- will work on a few Rakudo profiles once it works with trunk again
- expect at least a 5% performance improvement there
- have some other ideas, but won't do them without profiling first
- came up with a scheme to reduce PBC size by coalescing strings
- Peter Lobsinger is exploring that
