> I've had some time to think about this a little bit more, and I'm > not completely convinced that it would be a good idea to back port a > new machine code generator to 7.8. After all, that seems like a pretty > major change to insert into what should theoretically be a stable > release.
Agreed. > Perhaps it makes more sense to release 7.8 as-is and then focus > attention on doing a stable release of 7.9/7.10/8.0/whatever. How far > from being stable is 7.9 at this point? I've dabbled with it, but > haven't done much serious work with it yet. The _Regexp.PCRE module will not compile if you have a recent (from this spring) libpcre unless you have a Pike 7.8 from today.
