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Recently, I’ve been trying to harden up the implementation of Whiley’s type system. The reason for this is fairly straightforward: bugs in the code often prevent me from compiling correct programs! In thinking about how to restructure the algorithms I’m using, I realised its important to distinguish simplification from minimisation. I’ve talked about minimisation . . . → Read More: Simplification vs Minimisation of Types in Whiley An interesting issue with the following piece of code has recently come to my attention: define Queue as process { [int] items } int Queue::get(): item = this.items[0] this.items = this.items[1..] return item void Queue::put(int item): this.items = this.items + [item] Queue ::Queue(): // following line should be invalid return spawn { items: [] . . . → Read More: A Subtyping Gotcha So, it’s that time again for another update of the Whiley compiler. Perhaps the most interesting update is that constraints are back! Admitedly, only runtime checking of constraints is back; and, there are quite a few problems with it. But, it’s a step in the right direction, and I’m pretty excited about it. I’ve . . . → Read More: Whiley v0.3.9 Released! Recently, I’ve been working on a variety of sequential and concurrent micro benchmarks for testing Whiley’s performance. An interesting and relatively simple example, is the parallel sum. The idea is to sum a large list of integers whilst performing as much work as possible in parallel. To implement the parallel sum, I divide the . . . → Read More: Parallel Sum in Whiley Now that teaching has started up again, development has slowed a little. This release is primarily a bug fix release. The benchmarks and examples now all compile again, which is great! I’ve also significantly increased the number of micro benchmarks, as I’m gear up for some performance testing … ChangeLog The main changes since . . . → Read More: Whiley v0.3.8 Released! |
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