Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:53:55 -0300 (BRST)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, David Ford wrote:

> If it is that badly broken, isn't that sufficient criteria to justify
> the patch?

It's not just a patch. Fixing this problem will require
a major VM rewrite. A rewrite I really wasn't willing
to make for 2.4.

I'll start writing the thing, but I won't be aiming at
getting it included in 2.4. I guess I could code it in
such a way to give a drop-in replacement for people
willing to cut themselves on the bleeding edge, though ;)

Rik

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