On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:12, Richard Hainsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gerd Pokorra wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Parrot 1.9.0 (Blue-fronted Amazon) is due to be released on Tuesday,
>> December 15th.
>>
>
> <snip>
>>
>> + investigate gc
>>
>>
>
> Seems odd to add what the developers are doing to news about a release. Also
> gc means a lot to Parrot people, but how much to someone with a more casual
> interest.
>
> Maybe a note at the end of the announcement about the location of the
> strategy and milestones would cover the gc point and more.
>
i've modified NEWS so it now reads:
New in 1.9.0
- Core
+ Converted Contexts to garbage collectable structures
+ Made profiling runcore output format configurable and extensible
options include "pprof" and "none" ("binary" and "callgrind" are planned)
+ Added environment variables to specify profiling output type and filename
(PARROT_PROFILING_OUTPUT and PARROT_PROFILING_FILENAME)
+ Began merging Freeze/Thaw and Bytecode generator/loader
- Compilers
+ Included latest nqp-rx compiler, with many improvements
- Miscellaneous
+ Portability updates for RTEMS, and Intel architectures with GNU compilers
+ Completed conversion of ticket tracking system from RT to Trac
+ Several (build time, runtime) performance improvements
+ Converted many tests to PIR, reducing test execution time
+ Various bugfixes, code cleanups, and coding standard fixes
this level of detail seems more appropriate for the audience of our
release announcements. please feel free to correct or update the file
where appropriate.
~jerry
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