Well, crikey, what a long time since the last release. Things haven’t changed a whole lot, apart from various bug fixes. Probably the most interesting update is the inclusion of reference counting of compound structures to enable in-place updates and prevent unnecessary cloning. This leads to some nice performance improvements. Quite a bit of work has been done on the benchmarks as well, and also the eclipse plugin.
ChangeLog
- Added support for proper reference counting of compound structures. This employs a live variables analysis to determine when a local variable is dead.
- Reworked the name resolution and module loading system. This was done primarily to support build tools such as ant and eclipse.
- Improved the Ant task.
- Further improved the runtime checking of constraints.
- Added some rudimentary reporting of memory usage by the various compiler stages.
