On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 14:39 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi! > > Just a brief note to say that if you haven't noticed, the "master" > branch of Guile now compiles to the new virtual machine, using the new > compiler. All tests pass. The old VM is gone! >
Congrats! > There are a couple of regressions that I would like to fix soonish: > > * The compiler is somewhat slow. I haven't tried to optimize it at > all, so there's lots to do here. To a degree it is to be expected, > as the compiler does more work -- but I hope to get it faster than > the 2.0 compiler. > > * We don't have local variable information. In the debugger, ,locals > doesn't print anything. Here we need to build this information at > compile-time, write it into ELF somehow (perhaps using DWARF), and > read it out as needed at runtime. I'll take a look at this too. > > * The manual is out of date, as regards the compiler and VM. > > Besides these regressions, there are a many optimizations to make -- > many more than before -- now that we have a better intermediate language > in which to express them. > > Let the list know if you find any problems that aren't covered by the > test suite. > > I hope we can get out a 2.1.0 release -- which would be a prerelease for > 2.2 -- around mid-December or so. We can aim for 2.2.0 for next May or > so, but that's a totally fictional date I just made up :) > Next May sounds nice, but no rush anyway IMO ;-) Thanks for working on it! > Cheers, > > Andy
