Welcome to the ruby wiki!

# Only need to run once
sudo apt-get install autoconf ccache ruby-dev bison
autoconf
CC="ccache gcc" CFLAGS="-g -O2" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/bundles/ruby --enable-shared

# After any change
make -j8
make install

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_Hacking_Guide/Garbage_Collection#Introducing_GC

Check out README.EXT; it contains useful information about how ruby data is represented in C, and how data is converted between Ruby representation and C representation.

Ruby Identifier Search - http://rxr.whitequark.org/mri/ident

Modules for introspecting GC statistics within Ruby: GC GC::Profiler ObjectSpace

• Data gathering (Kevin)
  • Write GC Stress tests
  • Gather/Graph tests
• Correctness (Max)
  • Unit tests
• Task Delegator (Andrew)

• Oct 24 - Meeting
  • Andrew - Full understanding of GC code, possibly have some tasks
  • Kevin - Complete research on performance profiling, possibly baseline numbers?
  • Max - Research unit testing, begin setting up for project
• Oct 25 - GSI Meeting
• Oct 30 - Meeting (Cancelled)
• Nov 1 - GSI Meeting
  • Implementation: Task pile w/ shared queue
  • Start with simple locking queue, once we have a working implementation, develop competing queue implementations to get the best one.
  • The Art of Multiprocessor Programming
• Nov 6 - Meeting
• Nov 8 - GSI Meeting
• Nov 12 - 10AM Hack day (tentative)
• Nov 13 - Meeting
• Nov 15 - GSI Meeting
• Nov 20 - Meeting
  • Final implementation, feature freeze
• Nov 22 - GSI Meeting
• Nov 27 - Presentation
  • Minor bug fixes, data gathering, presentation prepared
• Nov 30 - Final Writeup