petdance/scratch — Issue #863: [CAGE] More rigorous testing for constant tables across threads
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-14 06:13:47+00:00
State: open
Labels: cage, Pri-normal, Sev-medium, testing

With the merge of the pcc_reapply branch, test 13 in t/pmc/threads.t will have 3 sections commented out (from r41939). These sections depend on a sub in the constants table being the same as the sub stored in the namespace. This is true for the main interpreter, but not always true for a thread.
Need more extensive testing of the constants table in threads. It could be argued that the constants table should be cloned, or that even direct sub access should be doing a lookup in the namespace for accuracy (with a possible hit in speed).

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1120 by @allisonrandal