I didn't expect anyone to really care, but it seemed like there's enough action on perl6-internals right now that I thought I should send this out just in case. I am out of the perl6/parrot picture for the time being (and have been for a while) -- I'm in Japan for all of June and July, and my job here keeps me much too busy to participate in p6i. (Okay, so maybe it's not just my job. Tokyo is fun!)
So if anyone has been thinking of fixing/modifying/taking out and shooting hash.c or languages/regex, please don't hesitate on my account. (Actually, that's one thing I like about parrot development -- people tend to feel free to trample on anything that looks like it needs trampling anyway.) Last I knew, there were still gc-related problems in hash.c if you mixed together string encodings. I have a mostly-completed local rewrite to an index-based scheme, but I very much doubt I'll be able work any more on it for over a month. And the regex compiler not only hasn't been updated to the new assembler, but I haven't even read Apoc5 to see if the compiler is at all relevant any more. (I'm intentionally avoiding reading it, because I'm sure it'll just make me want to work on stuff I can't afford to spend time on now.) Parrot already appears to be much more sophisticated than the circa-0.0.6 I knew. I may not even recognize it when I return. But that's a good thing.
