[Mono-dev] Mono 2.6.x

[matteo tesser]

Hi Geoff,
Is the well tested stable component you refer, public? can we help in testing?

I only wan to say that Its a pity that this will not back-ported.
Given this any change of running multi-thread apps is loss.
I noticed that (at least in my case, a 3x performances boost can be
obtained on Mac OS X also in cases where there only one background
working thread  and an UI thread). Anyway I agree that is more
important to have apps running slow that not running at all.

Finally a question: I noticed  when running autogen.sh I saw  the
following line:

Parallel Mark: Disabled_Currently_Hangs_On_MacOSX

I assume that meaining of the word Hangs is: it goes too slow, and
maybe this can solved by the   synchronization speedup.

I tried to force the use of parallel mark by compiling the trunk with
the following option  --enable-parallel-mark, and I obtain the
following  error on make, is this normal?

Making all in mini
make  all-am
../../doltlibtool --quiet --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -I../..
-I../../libgc/include -D_REENTRANT
-I/Users/teo/mono2.5/include/glib-2.0
-I/Users/teo/mono2.5/lib/glib-2.0/include      -g -O2
-fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wall -Wunused -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wno-cast-qual -Wwrite-strings
-export-dynamic  -sectcreate __TEXT __info_plist
../../mono/mini/Info.plist -pthread -o mono main.o libmono-static.la
-L/Users/teo/mono2.5/lib -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl    -lm
-lpthread -lm
Undefined symbols:
  "_mono_gc_get_write_barrier", referenced from:
      _decode_method_ref in libmono-static.a(aot-runtime.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found

Thanks,
Matteo

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Geoff Norton <gnorton at novell.com> wrote:
>
> On 2010-02-03, at 2:27 AM, matteo tesser wrote:
>
>> HI
>>
>> The following bug has been fixed on the trunk, I would like it to be backported:
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402833
>
> This patch will not be backported, it changes the behaviour of well tested stable component in a major way with a serious chance of regressions.
>
> Geoff
>
>