The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 28 April 2010. Larry, Allison, Jerry, Will, and chromatic attended.

Larry:

• caught up on a week's worth of backlog
• made a few spec tweaks
• discussed them with other people
• trying to make error messages more awesome in STD
• working on the ability to parse the insides of character classes
• STD doesn't like parsing itself recursively there
• need to iron out a few things
• enum names can now be variables

Allison:

• Debian packages ready to ship to Debian sponsors
• putting together a list of GC tasks
• cleaned out the existing page, have the big things listed
• trying to decide which tasks to do first
• doing a lot of reading and research
• my little language project is due on Monday
• HLLCompiler was enormously useful
• will start working on the GC stuff next week
• should also start a fresh pass through the ticket queue
• added a workaround for the final remaining TT #389 bug
• Jonathan had a test case

Will:

• tried to focus on getting Rakudo blockers removed

c:

• spent some time getting Rakudo to work with trunk
• will need a Rakudo guts hacker for the last part
• worked on the compact_string revamp branch with Vasily
• merged now
• that makes trunk about 12% faster than the 2.3.0 release
• will work on a few Rakudo profiles once it works with trunk again
• expect at least a 5% performance improvement there
• have some other ideas, but won't do them without profiling first
• came up with a scheme to reduce PBC size by coalescing strings
• Peter Lobsinger is exploring that