Merging threads

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

Andrew, can you shed some light on this? Do you have a link to a Github issue?

Duke

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The last big issue is one reporting by tadzik++ in nqp. I haven't had
> a chance to dig into it myself, but I will try to get that resolved
> soon.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> So, it looks like rurban++ correctly fixed threads on g++ (as well as
>> fixing a bug which went un-noticed because the code in question is not
>> tested). Nicely done!
>>
>> As the next release manager, I would like to focus our energies on
>> getting the threads branch properly documented, tested and merged by
>> October 12th (a few days before the 4.9.0 stable release). If you have
>> an itch to work on something Parrot-related but you don't quite know
>> what to work on, hack on threads, please :)
>>
>> If you know of an issue on the threads branch, please notify the list
>> and/or create a Github issue for it. If you have a little extra time,
>> perhaps you can write some example code that shows off our threads
>> implementation, or a benchmark showing how an algorithm can be sped up
>> with threads. We also probably need some "high-level" introduction to
>> our threads because I believe most of our docs for threads are at the
>> "low" API level.
>>
>> It would also be nice to start working on a blog post for parrot.org
>> that announces that threads has been merged, why it is important and
>> what people can do with it. Would somebody like to spearhead that
>> effort?
>>
>> Duke
>>
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