From: SASADA Koichi <ko1@...>
Date: 2007-03-26T21:57:39+09:00
Subject: Re: More Summer of Code goodness (please forward)

Hi,

pat eyler wrote:
>   http://www.rubycentral.org/projects/soc2007/ideas

> A Ruby benchmark suite

Great! :)



I have more ideas.

1. Scheme or JavaScript on Ruby/YARV

YARV has own assembler (lib/yasm) which can be write in Ruby.  Compiling
Scheme or JavaScript or something you like achieve Inline::XXX on Ruby.

Please pointed out the lack of YARV instructions and yasm functions.


2. Ruby/YARV Continuation Support

Some people love demos with continuation.  Let's make fake callcc
support that can show demos.  Everyone cannot discover what it's a fake
implementation because they don't use it in their applications.

...it's joke.  but almost truth.  True goal of this project is to
implement complete callcc support.


3. Ruby/YARV Partial Continuation Support

Partial Continuation is what we need (I believe).  Design this API and
implement it.  It will need realistic limitation.  But it will be
realistic answer who want to use generator, or so.


4. Userlevel threads on Ruby/YARV

YARV uses native thread instead of traditional userlevel thraed.  It's
good idea to some points, but bad idea to some points.  Let's implement
userlevel thread system on YARV.  If you implement it, you can run YARV
on DOS machine.


5. Simple Simple test suits

Ruby has own test cases in Test::Unit.  But to work Test::Unit is too
difficult for alternative implementation which built from scratch.
Current YARV has "bootstraptest" to test primitives.  Your goal is to
enlarge this test items.


6....

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Yes, I know that it's too late.  So you can try above issues if you are
not a student :)

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