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4Matthew Fluet (
5mailto:matthew.fluet@gmail.com[matthew.fluet@gmail.com]
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7http://www.cs.rit.edu/%7Emtf
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9is an Assistant Professor at the http://www.rit.edu[Rochester Institute of Technology].
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11''''
12
13Current MLton projects:
14
15* general maintenance
16* release new version
17
18''''
19
20Misc. and underspecified TODOs:
21
22* understand <:RefFlatten:> and <:DeepFlatten:>
23** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-April/026990.html
24** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2007-November/030056.html
25** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-April/030250.html
26** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-July/030279.html
27** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-August/030312.html
28** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-September/030360.html
29** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2009-June/001542.html
30* `MSG_DONTWAIT` isn't Posix
31* coordinate w/ Dan Spoonhower and Lukasz Ziarek and Armand Navabi on multi-threaded
32** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-March/030214.html
33* Intel Research bug: `no tyconRep property` (company won't release sample code)
34** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2008-March/001358.html
35* treatment of real constants
36** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-May/030262.html
37** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-June/030271.html
38* representation of `bool` and `_bool` in <:ForeignFunctionInterface:>
39** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-May/030264.html
40* http://www.icfpcontest.org
41** John Reppy claims that "It looks like the card-marking overhead that one incurs when using generational collection swamps the benefits of generational collection."
42* page to disk policy / single heap
43** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-June/030278.html
44** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-August/030318.html
45* `MLton.GC.pack` doesn't keep a small heap if a garbage collection occurs before `MLton.GC.unpack`.
46** It might be preferable for `MLton.GC.pack` to be implemented as a (new) `MLton.GC.Ratios.setLive 1.1` followed by `MLton.GC.collect ()` and for `MLton.GC.unpack` to be implemented as `MLton.GC.Ratios.setLive 8.0` followed by `MLton.GC.collect ()`.
47* The `static struct GC_objectType objectTypes[] =` array includes many duplicates. Objects of distinct source type, but equivalent representations (in terms of size, bytes non-pointers, number pointers) can share the objectType index.
48* PolySpace bug: <:Redundant:> optimization (company won't release sample code)
49** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-September/030355.html
50* treatment of exception raised during <:BasisLibrary:> evaluation
51** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-December/030501.html
52** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-December/030502.html
53** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-December/030503.html
54* Use `memcpy`
55** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2009-January/001506.html
56** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-January/030506.html
57* Implement more 64bit primops in x86 codegen
58** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-January/030507.html
59* Enrich path-map file syntax:
60** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-September/030348.html
61** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2009-January/001507.html
62* PolySpace bug: crash during Cheney-copy collection
63** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-February/030513.html
64* eliminate `-build-constants`
65** all `_const`-s are known by `runtime/gen/basis-ffi.def`
66** generate `gen-constants.c` from `basis-ffi.def`
67** generate `constants` from `gen-constants.c` and `libmlton.a`
68** similar to `gen-sizes.c` and `sizes`
69* eliminate "Windows hacks" for Cygwin from `Path` module
70** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-July/030606.html
71* extend IL type checkers to check for empty property lists
72* make (unsafe) `IntInf` conversions into primitives
73** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-July/030622.html