At 8:08 PM +0000 3/14/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 06:17:01PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote:
>> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> > OTOH, exposing the controls for twidding does mean that we probably
>> > won't ever be able to unexpose them, which limits our potential
>> > flexibility in the future.
>> >
>> > Opinions, folks?
>
>> My gut feeling is that we should make them available, but fenced about
>> with caveats about the interface being subject to radical change if we
>> find a better GC mechanism, or even if you find yourself running in a
>> different environment. And if you're at the point where you're
>> tweaking the GC controls you're probably going to 're tweak' them when
>> you upgrade parrot too, and if the interface has changed, well, you
>> suck it up and get on with the job.
>
>I think Piers said here pretty much what I was thinking. If we expose
>the controls without some sort of "Under Construction" sign then it
>would preclude us from ever using a fundamentally different garbage
>collector later on, as it wouldn't have the same sort of controls that
>parrot had committed to providing.
>
>Hence I think I'd like GC controls exposed, but with this sort of warning on
>them.
You and Piers have me convinced. I'll add access to them, and we'll
cover the things with danger signs.
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Dan
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