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Re: [rvm-core] Code freeze

by Steve Blackburn :: Rate this Message:

On 04/02/2009, at 2:50 AM, David P Grove wrote:

> improvements to the documentation, method names, etc. I'd prefer to > avoid making those changes to the trunk.
I disagree. I would strongly prefer to see the branch merged in as soon as it is fully functional and deal with any cleanups in documentation in the trunk. PNT represents a major increase of functionality for Jikes RVM on AIX (where our syscall interception strategy doesn't work) and I'm very interested in having this available. I also think there may be a significant increase in our chances to get a 2009 SoC project if at least one of the 2008 projects had been successfully mainlined.

I agree with Dave.

We need to get native threads happening ASAP for a host of strategic reasons.

To make that happen, Tony has paid for Fil to make the journey to ANU and work intensively with Daniel. Meanwhile Daniel has put his PhD write-up on ice for two weeks for the same reason.

Since Fil arrived, the progress has been dramatic. After two days they had the native threads branch go from 219/2184 to 11/2184. This is very close to the head in terms of stability (see most recent kumataka regression result). Since then they've pushed on PPC and nailed a few more bugs (see recent commit messages to see the progress they've made on PPC). Daniel is kicking off another kumataka run now. So we are now finally very close to having native threads production-ready.

--Steve

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