Re: [Pnet-developers] [Bug #2806] CSCC virtual memory exhausted

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:10 am, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> If you want a one liner, please do that. I dont think it will help
> that much.

I have already made it clear that I don't consider the one-line patch 
necessary, but if someone else wants to spend some time on it, then I will 
treat the patch like all others.  i.e. see if it really solves the problem; 
make sure it doesn't break anything else; is in keeping with DotGNU's core 
mission; and then perhaps even apply it.

The ball is in your court.  Until then, the bug remains closed.

> The real problem with the pnet right now is the lack of diagnostic and
> meta information dumping.

I've never had this problem.  I'm yet to discover a bug that couldn't be found 
using gdb, carefully positioned printf statements, and my knowledge of what 
is where and how it all fits together.  I find your belief that adding 
copious amounts of debug statements will somehow make the code easier to read 
and debug to be quite hilarious.  My experience has been that adding more 
code to a buggy project only makes it more buggy, not less.

> I will try and make the change clean enough so that you may include
> them if you feel like it, I make no illusions that you are interested.
> I am sure you will love just deleting the patch.

I don't love deleting patches.  I hate it in fact.  Telling someone no is 
never easy.

I delete them if they don't solve the problem, introduce unnecessary features, 
are unduly messy, could be done in a simpler way, or aren't in keeping with 
DotGNU's core mission.  Is it my fault that this describes 99% of your 
contributions to date?

You would find me to be much more sympathetic if you ditched your attempts to 
introspector-ize pnet by stealth, focused on fixing problems instead of 
adding debug code, and started working on things that actually move pnet 
towards ECMA-complete.  If you cannot do this, then I suggest that you 
unsubscribe from the DotGNU mailing lists and leave.

Cheers,

Rhys.