| Job | Priority | Title |
|---|---|---|
| job001153 | critical | The MPS lacks error recovery mechanisms |
| job003359 | critical | Ambiguous interior pointers do not keep objects alive |
| job003370 | critical | Assertion failure in AMS: "grey == TraceSetEMPTY || SegRankSet(seg) != RankSetEMPTY" |
| job000652 | essential | mps_arena_destroy may crash if some objects aren't destroyed |
| job001092 | essential | MPS is not integrated with cool projects. |
| job001150 | essential | MPS doesn't provide enough feedback information about what it is doing or what it has done |
| job001151 | essential | Format methods can't look at other data |
| job001152 | essential | The MPS can't be used to simulate a smaller machine |
| job001155 | essential | full collects cause gigantic ramps |
| job001549 | essential | MPS assert !AMS_IS_INVALID_COLOUR(seg, i) poolams.c AMSFix |
| job001550 | essential | MPS poolams.c AMSFix omits checks: clientRef is within seg; bit index is valid |
| job001621 | essential | Can't use threads on OS X. |
| job001659 | essential | Culprit analysis is too hard. |
| job001676 | essential | AMC does not implement weakness in emergency fixing. |
| job001681 | essential | AMCHeaderFix is an unnecessary copy. |
| job001687 | essential | AWL does not recycle memory to the arena. |
| job001688 | essential | AMC repeatedly allocates and initialises identical SegPrefs |
| job001707 | essential | VM Arena never shrinks a generation zone set preferences. |
| job001708 | essential | VM Arena's segment placement policy could be improved. |
| job001709 | essential | VM Arena uses up zones too quickly. |
| job001715 | essential | MPS fails to lower barrier when hit: multiple hits cause slowdown (CONJECTURE) |
| job003371 | essential | MPS spends too much time making system calls |
| 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 |
| job003474 | essential | amcssth test failure on lii6gc |
| job003477 | essential | MPS is hard to build and debug on Windows |
| job003486 | essential | mv2test failure |
| job000402 | optional | Imported MPS mail messages lack their attachments |
| job000537 | optional | Many design documents missing |
| job000538 | optional | Project documents are poorly formatted |
| job000543 | optional | No MPS programmer's guide |
| job000548 | optional | AMS grain colour doesn't agree with design doc |
| job000549 | optional | Blackening an AMS segment can break |
| job000550 | optional | BufferEmpty on AMS in mid-collection can break |
| job001145 | optional | Many (mmqa) tests fail on OS X |
| job001149 | optional | MPS does not provide sufficient information about addresses |
| job001666 | optional | No guarantee that all weak references to an object die together. |
| job001887 | optional | MPS mps_arena_committed() is wrong when using mps_arena_class_cl (client arena) |
| job002175 | optional | MPS unaligned references are not detected by AMC pools |
| job003302 | optional | mps_arena_create fails with deep consistency checks |
| job003322 | optional | External interface contains useless "fixed" object format |
| job003323 | optional | Varargs interfaces are hard to use |
| job003326 | optional | Purpose of mps_arena_class_vmnz is unclear |
| job003327 | optional | Purpose of reservoirs is unclear |
| job003341 | optional | Unclear how to destroy a pool containing objects registered for finalization |
| job003342 | optional | mps_arena_unsafe functions are bogus |
| job003348 | optional | Unclear what happens if a thread dies while registered |
| job003352 | optional | Instruction emulation not supported on OS X or x86-64 |
| job003374 | optional | No documentation about low memory situations |
| 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 |
| job003476 | optional | No automated testrun target on Windows |
| 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 |
| job000677 | nice | Insufficient stuff has been converted from MMinfo to Ravenbrook Project repository |
| job000742 | nice | Some niggles annoy DRJ |
| job000814 | nice | Configura cannot manage Lightworks objects with the MPS |
| job001144 | nice | Some minor hope dependencies exist in test suite |
| job001161 | nice | there is no human-helpful map of MPS files |
| job001357 | nice | Configura cannot use Win32 fibers |
| job001384 | nice | MPS unclear constraints on avgSize argument to PoolMV mps_pool_create |
| job001386 | nice | MPS website has no FAQ |
| job001571 | nice | MPS multiple traces would not work |
| job001682 | nice | AMCWalk does not honour its contract |
| job001789 | nice | MPS auto_header format is not tested by main test files |
| job003318 | nice | No interface to get collection number from a gc start message |
| job003324 | nice | Manual contains little about performance of interface |
| job003325 | nice | Purpose of the "class" method of an object format is unclear |
| job003328 | nice | Possible improvement to reserve/commit protocol |
| job003343 | nice | Documentation could say more about meaning of result codes |
| job003344 | nice | Purpose of allocation frames/SNC pool class are unclear |
| job003350 | nice | Purpose of manual pool classes is unclear |
| job003351 | nice | Debugging pool classes are hard to use |
| job003353 | nice | Collection start reason hard to analyze |
| job003357 | nice | AWL is awkward to use |
| job003480 | nice | awluthe test failure on OS X |
| job003482 | nice | Test suite doesn't test error paths |
| job003483 | nice | mv2test.c contains a redundant random number generator |
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