Paul Bone

Mesh: Compacting memory management for C/C++ applications

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Here is a paper a colleague passed to me with an interesting idea for compacting memory in an uncooperative environment. This is not an "issue" or even a "request". But...

The Local structure is 2104 bytes long and jemalloc rounds this to 4096 bytes.

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The Local structure here https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/third_party/rust/crossbeam-epoch/src/internal.rs#287 is 2104 bytes long. When compiled into Firefox and using the jamalloc memory allocator this is rounded up to 4096 bytes (a very common practice)....

Avoid confusing different meanings of the same word, eg Functor

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Even within FP there are multiple meanings of some terms, a good example is functor. You've covered one meaning and might not be aware of the other two meanings. 1....

Make a docker image for using Plasma

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We already have a docker image for developing Plasma, Split it into two, a base image for both to inherit (or copy from) and make a new image that includes...

Make more Mercury packages for debian based systems. - [x] amd64 - [x] i386 - [ ] armhf - [ ] aarch64 - [x] Recent ROTD of Mercury - [x]...

Write a new test script

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This is still a work-in-progress. But I'd like for someone to check my Lua at this point. Thanks.

The compiler can crash when the module name in the file and the `BUILD.plz` don't match. For example. here the file name is: `ho_call_bug_30.p` The module name in that file...

Modify test scripts to use Test Anything Protocol (TAP) for integration into CI harnesses. Then use a simple (maybe AWK) script to post-process the output or just use a test...

Organise tests into directories based on what component they test, rather than how the test is implemented (eg valid/invalid).