CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/parrot

[Havard Eidnes <he%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   he
Date:           Sun Sep 20 10:57:04 UTC 2009

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot: Makefile PLIST distinfo
Removed Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/parrot/patches: patch-af patch-ag

Log Message:
Update from version 1.5.0 to 1.6.0.

Pkgsrc changes:
 o Remove two patches which have been included upstream.

Upstream changes:

- Functionality
  + Added a fixed-size structure allocator to the Garbage Collector
  + Added a "lazy" mode to the PObj and Fixed-Size memory allocators
  + Added a profiling runcore, which generates Callgrind-compatible output
  + Added lexical subsystem opcodes: find_dynamic_lex, store_dynamic_lex
  + Converted Contexts to garbage-collectable PMC structures
  + Created a new Context API
  + Enhanced the PMC allocator to automatically allocate ATTR structures
- Performance
  + Optimized opcodes to cache the current Context for subsequent lookups
  + Reduced string comparisons in VTABLE_isa
- Maintenance and cleanup
  + Began proper encapsulation of STRING API
  + Unified all PMC destruction functions
  + Unified Continuation PMC and Parrot_cont structure
  + Unified Sub PMC and Parrot_sub structure
  + Removed PMC_EXT structure
  + Removed PMC_Sync from PMC
  + Removed UnionVal from PMC structure
- Bugfix
  + Fixed several stack-walking bugs in Garbage Collector code
  + Fixed bug when copying a NULL STRING, now returns empty STRING struct
- Tests
  + Converted several Perl5 tests to PIR
  + Expanded test coverage of NameSpace PMC
- Compilers
  + Made Parrot Compiler Toolkit available in the base install


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.21 -r1.22 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.8 -r1.9 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/PLIST
cvs rdiff -u -r1.15 -r1.16 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/distinfo
cvs rdiff -u -r1.1 -r0 pkgsrc/lang/parrot/patches/patch-af \
    pkgsrc/lang/parrot/patches/patch-ag

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