2.4 Release On 18 May
Will Coleda
will at coleda.com
Wed May 5 17:51:45 UTC 2010
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's that time again! The 2.4 release is coming out on May 18.
>
> I don't think we need too long a feature freeze this month, but if we
> could avoid large destabilizing changes between now and the release I
> would much appreciate it. I would really like to see three things
> focused on in the next week for the release:
>
> 1) Performance improvements related to immutable strings. If we could
> get a prototype StringBuilder type put together between now and the
> weekend, that would be great.
CodeString (esp from branches/codestring) currently provides something
like this. If you like, I can pull out the StringBuilder like parts
from codestring in that branch into a StringBuilder (which I imagine
will be have a simple API: concat, and get_string). Bacek (or someone
else) can then swap out the guts for something more efficient than the
RSA we're using in codestring.
> 2) Testing for TT #389. This ticket has been open for long enough and
> has caused enough headaches that we should make sure it is dead
> forever. Let's make sure the solution does what Rakudo (and any other
> HLL) needs, make sure we have adequate test coverage of it, and then
> never speak of it again.
> 3) Testing for strings. Immutable strings made a lot of changes, so we
> want to test all those. Also, there is more cleanup and performance
> work to be done in the strings system now, and we want to make sure we
> have a very good regression test suite available so we can catch bugs
> and regressions early.
There are still many deprecation notices for strings left; I'd like to
get the rest cleared out before this release if possible.
> As always, please update NEWS and PLATFORMS.
>
> This is going to be another in a long line of high-quality releases,
> Let's make sure it's a good one!
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
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