[M3devel] HEADS UP: Release engineering, was: Re: CM3 Release

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:02:17PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> If anybody could test Rodney's TEXT changes and provide some
> information on the impacts on our applications, that would help a lot.
> 
> I also wasn't able to read and understand all the mails about small objects.
> (Guessing, I'd say I'd need another day for that :-)
> Can anybody summarize?
> Has a conclusion been reached and what will be done/implemented?
> Is this relevant for the next release, or will it take longer?

Deciding that the garbage collector should test for the low-order bit of 
pointers and leave them alone if the bit is set could probably dop done 
immediately, and would make it possible for users to build unsafe code 
to do the small-objects stuff.  This could go in the next release if 
the garbage-collector change wom't upset anything.

There's still some discussion about just what form the final language 
feature should take.  I don't know if that will be finished in time for 
the release.

-- hendrik