Re: [Torsion-dev] Torsion 0.0.18 released

[Dan Helfman]

Geoffrey Plitt wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Congrats on the release. Looking forward to checking it out. Let me
> know if there are any more easily-chunked tasks I can do, and I may be
> up for more algorithmical or research-based stuff. I liked the
> checkpoint optimisation, smart stuff.
>
> Geoff

Thanks! It was definitely nice to get this release out after what seemed 
like endless bug-stomping. One particularly non-glamorous but various 
granular task I can think of right off the bat is to improve the unit 
test framework and/or write unit tests for various Torsion components. 
Right now any tests have to be compiled into and then invoked from 
within the Torsion kernel, but it would be really useful to be able to, 
say, run a suite of unit tests for the hash table class from outside the 
kernel, e.g. from Linux. If this sounds at all interesting, you may want 
to take a stab at it.

Also, there is a lot of x86-specific code interspersed throughout the 
kernel. It would be very nice to have at least some of this code 
factored out into a separate directory, not only to make the code 
cleaner but to make an eventual port easier.

And then there's always that task of replacing the shell with a real 
programming language, but as we've discussed, that's a bit more of an 
ambitious project.

Dan