From: Evan Webb <evanwebb@...>
Date: 2005-07-13T11:16:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Sydney Developer Preview 1 released

On 7/12/05, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Evan Webb wrote:
> 
> > Hm. Ok, I'll have to redo that to support other compilers.
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> Haven't seen a non-ANSI C compiler since Microsoft C 4.0, 1986. You?

I havent been keeping track, but I've lowered fixing the # expansion
on the list of fixes.

> 
> > > # And, // style comment is newer than it.
> > Yeah, thats just my bad habit (using // comments).
> 
> That's ISO C 99, but granted, it may not work on your average 10-year-old
> compiler.
> 
> 
> 
> Btw do you have any plans of improving the garbage collector ?

With the addition of the OS threads, I did some minor GC modification
already. Each thread takes care of marking it's own stack. There are
more changes that could be put in place to distribute the marking to
all the available threads.

Another seattle.rb member was working on some GC changes that I'll
probably merge in when he gets the stable. Other than that, not at the
moment.

Thanks for the comments.

Evan

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