Monthly Archives: April 2016

This post covers the previous two weeks of my Perl 6 grant work. Last time I wrote here, I plotted changes to call frames in MoarVM. Or, as the wonderful Perl Weekly put it, provided way too much information about … Continue reading →

In this post I’ll be talking a lot about call frames, also known as invocation records. Just to be clear about what they are, consider a sub: sub mean(@values) { @values.sum / @values } Whenever we call mean, we create … Continue reading →

Last week, I finally hunted down and fixed the EVAL memory leak, with the help of the heap snapshot analyzer I wrote about recently. I also hunted down a hang in parallel runs of the Perl 6 specification test suite … Continue reading →

Last week wasn’t one of my most productive on Perl 6, thanks to a mix of Easter holiday, a little more work than expected on another project, and feeling a tad under the weather for a day or so. In … Continue reading →