Hey everyone!

I will be filling you in with what we have achieved in the last week.

So, rurban has fixed up the pmc2c compiler and it looks good to handle the write barriers. However, the rules that we had followed earlier to place these WBs in the PMCs have been changed to some extent for a better performance. You can have a look at them @ https://github.com/parrot/parrot/issues/1069.

My major work has involved verifying and correcting the annotations for the WBs in the methods for each PMC. There are about 95 .pmc files and I am about to reach the half way mark.

Hey everyone!

I am really happy to announce that my GSoC project has gotten underway! I would first like to thank everybody to have given me this wonderful opportunity to be part of the community.

My project's primary objective is to improve the performance of the method signatures. To get the hang of things and understand how method calls and GC work, I have started working on a task that requires me to optimize GC write barriers in the pmc's (https://github.com/parrot/parrot/issues/1069).

Summary

-O1 and -O2 were previously disabled with some more imcc options. I enabled and fixed all of them. Even -O2 is now stable.

GSoC has come to an end finally and my project is done. The project was about implementing bindings to libgit2. I learned quite a bit about git internals, about how libraries are implemented, and parrot stuff.

I began with a better libgit2 header file parser which then creates the NCI low-level definitions. It was accurate enough so that I've had to update it only once since the mid-term data. There is a also a better unified buildsystem, though there are still rough edges around it.

At this week I was working for update tests and documentation on my project.
On the other hand I'm working on opened issues from dukeleto. Such as
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/issues/12
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/issues/11
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/issues/10
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/issues/9

I've done all task that we planed with dukeleto.
The future plans are going to work with issues that remain and deploy for enterprise work.

What's done?

A cross compiling nqp-js (running on top of parrot) passes all tests in nqp/t/nqp with the exception of test 49 (which does an equivalent of eval, which would be really tricky do in a cross compiler).
It also passes the serialization tests in nqp/t/serialization.
It also passes the same tests as nqp-parrot in nqp/t/qregex.
We use a custom harness for those to avoid compiling regex at runtime.

A standalone nqp-js (compiled with a cross compiling nqp-js and using a setting compiled by a cross compiling nqp-js) passes most of the tests in nqp/t/nqp (it fails 5 of them).

At this day I have done my work. The last task which I provided it's a build with perl 5 language.
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/commit/941304621158a59a7b4...

This is a final week at GSoC, so I will plan to write more tests and update documentation.

The last version of my project you can test on http://gcc20.fsffrance.org:3000/

Future plans:
- update API, realization a garbage collector(automatical remove old content) on my app
- realization an automatical deploy system on WebServer

This was a fairly productive week, with many new features.

Got the nqp/t/qregex tests to pass.
It would be a good idead for me to document how the rules engines of the MoarVM, Parrot, JVM and JavaScript backends work.
They are pretty similiar as it's basically the translation of the same code.
Unfortunately some things get cargo culted.
Like parrot registers names ending up in MoarVM code.

This means the rules engines implementation is resonably sane.
Incorrect test description caused a lot of confusion.
https://github.com/perl6/nqp/commit/7121946dd33c94f8b8b44dfc0dd74ab3ccea...

At that day my project have almost done. In previous few week I worked over different type of tests. It are Rosella(Winxed), Rosella(NQP) and Perl 5 tests for HLL and library templates.
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/commit/07509d65d54c9b3a94a... - rosella(winxed) tests on library template
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/commit/8fc46de1a19f0a22542... - rosella(nqp) tests on library template
https://github.com/letolabs/app-parrot-create/commit/6d3d55a8efa0cce84f1... - perl 5 tests on library template