Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of ItsABughunt

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10/09/09 01:01:39 (12 years ago)
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  • ItsABughunt

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     1''Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt? 
     2Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved. 
     3Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what? 
     4Gorman: A xenomorph. 
     5Hicks: It's a bughunt.'' 
     6  -- Aliens, 1986 
     7 
     8These subsystems need rethinking and revision and refactoring, because: 
     9 
     10 * hashes 
     11 ** the Hash PMC is too entertwined with the guts of src/hash.c which knows too much about the internals of Hash PMCs 
     12 ** it's not clear if the hash/bucket algorithm is sufficiently collision free 
     13 ** OrderedHash is a mess of semantics and implementation 
     14 ** some Parrot systems need C-like hashes while user-visible parts of Parrot need PMC-ish hashes