Stability, complexity bottlenecks

Moritz Lenz moritz at faui2k3.org
Mon Dec 21 19:50:48 UTC 2009


Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> 
>> There are easier ways to observe segfaults in Rakudo+Parrot that might
>> belong in the same category. For example the mandelbrot scripts from
>> http://github.com/colomon/mandelbrot
>> 
>> $ perl6 mandelbrot-color.pl 71 > /dev/null
>> Segmentation fault
>> 
>> This is only about 250 lines of code, and does nothing fancy: subroutine
>> calls, arithmetics, a bit of control flow. It just runs quite many of
>> these operations, the command line argument controls how many.
> 
> I clicked on the 'download' link there and tried that, but my copy is only 
> about 30 lines of code, doesn't segfault, and the '71' parameter doesn't 
> do anything.  I suspect github isn't serving up what you're working with.

Please try it again with:

 http://github.com/colomon/mandelbrot/raw/master/mandelbrot-color.pl

Sorry for being less specific the last time.

Cheers,
Moritz


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