At Tue 30 Nov 6:22pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:Architecture changes aren't an option we're entertaining until after we're functionally complete.
Just would like to ask a related question: Is a change that invalidates an existing precompiled bytecode but not the source code of it considered as an architecture change ?
Nope. This'll happen as ops come, go if they're fundamentally broken and/or stupid, and get shifted around. Changes to the packfile format and the basic PMCs'll do it too.
(At one point, packfiles contained a versioning scheme to catch changes in the ABI. Don't know about current state, though)
It still does, pretty reliably. (Or, rather, completely reliably so far as I can tell. Which is very nice)
We've not yet declared fully backward-compatibility for bytecode files. That's likely not going to happen until after the first final release.
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