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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:41:59 -0500
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Subject: Re: Are we done with big changes?
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From: d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski)

At 4:38 PM -0500 11/4/04, Matt Diephouse wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:35:09 -0500, Dan Sugalski <d...@sidhe.org> wrote:
>>  What, think this warrants a 0.1.2 release? I'm not so sure about
>>  that. It's not that big a deal...
>
>In the past week, Parrot has seen a dramatic speedup. We're in about
>the best shape we've been in in the past 4 months:
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>  http://www.sidhe.org/~timeparrot/graphs/A/sum.png
>
>Seems like a pretty big deal.

Hrm. Okay, then, if I've not managed to make a mess of things with 
the stuff I've been doing, why don't we do a 0.1.2 performance 
release? Between the speedups and the gentler effects of -t it seems 
likely to be worth it for people who're working with parrot to do 
stuff. (Better -t definitely makes debugging a *lot* less painful...)
--
				Dan

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