= MatthewFluet

Matthew Fluet (
mailto:matthew.fluet@gmail.com[matthew.fluet@gmail.com]
,
http://www.cs.rit.edu/%7Emtf
)
is an Assistant Professor at the http://www.rit.edu[Rochester Institute of Technology].

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Current MLton projects:

* general maintenance
* release new version

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Misc. and underspecified TODOs:

* understand <<RefFlatten#>> and <<DeepFlatten#>>
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-April/026990.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2007-November/030056.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-April/030250.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-July/030279.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-August/030312.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-September/030360.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2009-June/001542.html
* `MSG_DONTWAIT` isn't Posix
* coordinate w/ Dan Spoonhower and Lukasz Ziarek and Armand Navabi on multi-threaded
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-March/030214.html
* Intel Research bug: `no tyconRep property` (company won't release sample code)
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2008-March/001358.html
* treatment of real constants
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-May/030262.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-June/030271.html
* representation of `bool` and `_bool` in <<ForeignFunctionInterface#>>
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-May/030264.html
* http://www.icfpcontest.org
** John Reppy claims that "It looks like the card-marking overhead that one incurs when using generational collection swamps the benefits of generational collection."
* page to disk policy / single heap
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-June/030278.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-August/030318.html
* `MLton.GC.pack` doesn't keep a small heap if a garbage collection occurs before `MLton.GC.unpack`.
** It might be preferable for `MLton.GC.pack` to be implemented as a (new) `MLton.GC.Ratios.setLive 1.1` followed by `MLton.GC.collect ()` and for `MLton.GC.unpack` to be implemented as `MLton.GC.Ratios.setLive 8.0` followed by `MLton.GC.collect ()`.
* The `static struct GC_objectType objectTypes[] =` array includes many duplicates.  Objects of distinct source type, but equivalent representations (in terms of size, bytes non-pointers, number pointers) can share the objectType index.
* PolySpace bug: <<Redundant#>> optimization (company won't release sample code)
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-September/030355.html
* treatment of exception raised during <<BasisLibrary#>> evaluation
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-December/030501.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-December/030502.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-December/030503.html
* Use `memcpy`
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2009-January/001506.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-January/030506.html
* Implement more 64bit primops in x86 codegen
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-January/030507.html
* Enrich path-map file syntax:
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2008-September/030348.html
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2009-January/001507.html
* PolySpace bug: crash during Cheney-copy collection
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-February/030513.html
* eliminate `-build-constants`
** all `_const`-s are known by `runtime/gen/basis-ffi.def`
** generate `gen-constants.c` from `basis-ffi.def`
** generate `constants` from `gen-constants.c` and `libmlton.a`
** similar to `gen-sizes.c` and `sizes`
* eliminate "Windows hacks" for Cygwin from `Path` module
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-July/030606.html
* extend IL type checkers to check for empty property lists
* make (unsafe) `IntInf` conversions into primitives
** http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2009-July/030622.html
