On 10/17/07, Rana Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before deciding on a duration, or posting plans on the Wiki, it may be > worthwhile to list some of the items that we want to do before the > next rollout...The duration would possibly fall out of that? With some > of these, we could either stretch the duration to whatever is adequate > if we want the feature, or branch the tree if we need to some time > before release. Here are some DRLVM features that would be good to > finish. > > 1. Improve 64 bit support ( eg., supporting heapsizes upto native > limit instead of compressed heaps only ), and enabling better > performance and code generation for compressed heaps. This is a > largish item. > > 2. Cocurrent GC. Xiao Feng could add some estimate of dev work, but > it's not small. > > 3. The threading changes that Weldon and Pavel Rebiry have been doing. > Another biggish item.
I am neutral on M4 date. Of course we will try to get Thread State Transition code committed before M4 code freeze. If it does not happen, I am happy to wait until M5.
