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job000537
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optional
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Many design documents missing
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job000538
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optional
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Project documents are poorly formatted
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job000543
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optional
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No MPS programmer's guide
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job000548
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optional
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AMS grain colour doesn't agree with design doc
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job000549
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optional
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Blackening an AMS segment can break
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job000550
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optional
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BufferEmpty on AMS in mid-collection can break
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job000652
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essential
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mps_arena_destroy may crash if some objects aren't destroyed
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job000677
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nice
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Insufficient stuff has been converted from MMinfo to Ravenbrook Project repository
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job000742
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nice
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Some niggles annoy DRJ
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job000814
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nice
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Configura cannot manage Lightworks objects with the MPS
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job001092
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essential
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MPS is not integrated with cool projects.
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job001149
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optional
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MPS does not provide sufficient information about addresses
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job001150
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essential
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MPS doesn't provide enough feedback information about what it is doing or what it has done
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job001151
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essential
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Format methods can't look at other data
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job001152
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essential
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The MPS can't be used to simulate a smaller machine
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job001155
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essential
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full collects cause gigantic ramps
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job001161
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nice
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there is no human-helpful map of MPS files
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job001357
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nice
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Configura cannot use Win32 fibers
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job001384
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nice
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MPS unclear constraints on avgSize argument to PoolMV mps_pool_create
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job001386
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nice
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MPS website has no FAQ
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job001549
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essential
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MPS assert !AMS_IS_INVALID_COLOUR(seg, i) poolams.c AMSFix
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job001550
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essential
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MPS poolams.c AMSFix omits checks: clientRef is within seg; bit index is valid
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job001571
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nice
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MPS multiple traces would not work
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job001621
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essential
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Can't use threads on OS X.
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job001659
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essential
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Culprit analysis is too hard.
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job001666
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optional
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No guarantee that all weak references to an object die together.
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job001676
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essential
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AMC does not implement weakness in emergency fixing.
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job001681
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essential
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AMCHeaderFix is an unnecessary copy.
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job001682
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nice
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AMCWalk does not honour its contract
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job001687
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essential
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AWL does not recycle memory to the arena.
|
|
job001688
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essential
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AMC repeatedly allocates and initialises identical SegPrefs
|
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job001707
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essential
|
VM Arena never shrinks a generation zone set preferences.
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job001708
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essential
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VM Arena's segment placement policy could be improved.
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job001709
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essential
|
VM Arena uses up zones too quickly.
|
|
job001715
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essential
|
MPS fails to lower barrier when hit: multiple hits cause slowdown (CONJECTURE)
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|
job001789
|
nice
|
MPS auto_header format is not tested by main test files
|
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job001887
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optional
|
MPS mps_arena_committed() is wrong when using mps_arena_class_cl (client arena)
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|
job002175
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optional
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MPS unaligned references are not detected by AMC pools
|
|
job003302
|
optional
|
mps_arena_create fails with deep consistency checks
|
|
job003318
|
nice
|
No interface to get collection number from a gc start message
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job003322
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optional
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External interface contains useless "fixed" object format
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job003324
|
nice
|
Manual contains little about performance of interface
|
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job003325
|
nice
|
Purpose of the "class" method of an object format is unclear
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job003326
|
optional
|
Purpose of mps_arena_class_vmnz is unclear
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job003327
|
optional
|
Purpose of reservoirs is unclear
|
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job003328
|
nice
|
Possible improvement to reserve/commit protocol
|
|
job003341
|
optional
|
Unclear how to destroy a pool containing objects registered for finalization
|
|
job003342
|
optional
|
mps_arena_unsafe functions are bogus
|
|
job003343
|
nice
|
Documentation could say more about meaning of result codes
|
|
job003344
|
nice
|
Purpose of allocation frames/SNC pool class are unclear
|
|
job003348
|
optional
|
Unclear what happens if a thread dies while registered
|
|
job003350
|
nice
|
Purpose of manual pool classes is unclear
|
|
job003351
|
nice
|
Debugging pool classes are hard to use
|
|
job003352
|
optional
|
Instruction emulation not supported on OS X or x86-64
|
|
job003353
|
nice
|
Collection start reason hard to analyze
|
|
job003357
|
nice
|
AWL is awkward to use
|
|
job003359
|
essential
|
Ambiguous interior pointers do not keep objects alive
|
|
job003370
|
critical
|
Assertion failure in AMS: "grey == TraceSetEMPTY || SegRankSet(seg) != RankSetEMPTY"
|
|
job003371
|
essential
|
MPS spends too much time making system calls
|
|
job003374
|
optional
|
No documentation about low memory situations
|
|
job003384
|
essential
|
Collector goes mad when low on address space
|
|
job003385
|
essential
|
Performance is poor in large address space
|
|
job003387
|
essential
|
Multiple arenas can corrupt telemetry stream
|
|
job003388
|
essential
|
telemetry system API can corrupt telemetry stream
|
|
job003439
|
essential
|
MPS is too hard to use
|
|
job003448
|
optional
|
mps_arena_vm_growth is not documented
|
|
job003455
|
optional
|
Frequent ramps can mess up the ramping algorithm and cause performance problems
|
|
job003471
|
optional
|
mps_root_create_table is hard to use without punning
|
|
job003474
|
essential
|
amcssth test failure on lii6gc and fri3gc
|
|
job003476
|
optional
|
No automated testrun target on Windows
|
|
job003477
|
essential
|
MPS is hard to build and debug on Windows
|
|
job003480
|
nice
|
awluthe test failure on OS X
|
|
job003482
|
nice
|
Test suite doesn't test error paths
|
|
job003484
|
optional
|
MPS has predictable address space layout
|
|
job003485
|
optional
|
Information about cause of errors is lost
|
|
job003487
|
optional
|
Pool debug options are awkward to pass
|
|
job003491
|
essential
|
Manual doesn't make it clear that GC is cross-pool
|
|
job003492
|
optional
|
MFS refuses to handle objects smaller than platform alignment
|
|
job003493
|
nice
|
No recovery mode after assertion failure
|
|
job003494
|
essential
|
Re-entrancy failure in LDReset
|
|
job003495
|
optional
|
Assertion failure if you try to create a small arena
|
|
job003496
|
essential
|
Assertion failure in mps_roots_walk
|
|
job003497
|
essential
|
Messages from assertions sound like bugs in the MPS
|
|
job003498
|
essential
|
Varargs interface to SNC broken
|
|
job003499
|
critical
|
The MPS issues list looks scary
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