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1 | Guile-VM NEWS |
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| 4 | Guile-VM is a bytecode compiler and virtual machine for Guile. | |
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| 7 | guile-vm 0.7 -- 2008-05-20 | |
| 8 | ========================== | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | * Initial release with NEWS. | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | * Revived from Keisuke Nishida's Guile-VM project from 2000-2001, with | |
| 13 | the help of Ludovic Courtès. | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | * Meta-level changes | |
| 16 | ** Updated to compile with Guile 1.8. | |
| 17 | ** Documentation updated, including documentation on the instructions. | |
| 18 | ** Added benchmarking and a test harness. | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | * Changes to the inventory | |
| 21 | ** Renamed the library from libguilevm to libguile-vm. | |
| 22 | ** Added new executable script, guile-disasm. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | * New features | |
| 25 | ** Add support for compiling macros, both defmacros and syncase macros. | |
| 26 | Primitive macros produced with the procedure->macro family of procedures | |
| 27 | are not supported, however. | |
| 28 | ** Improvements to the REPL | |
| 29 | Multiple values support, readline integration, ice-9 history integration | |
| 30 | ** Add support for eval-case | |
| 31 | The compiler recognizes compile-toplevel in addition to load-toplevel | |
| 32 | ** Completely self-compiling | |
| 33 | Almost, anyway: not (system repl describe), because it uses GOOPS | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | * Internal cleanups | |
| 36 | ** Internal objects are now based on Guile records. | |
| 37 | ** Guile-VM's code doesn't use the dot-syntax any more. | |
| 38 | ** Changed (ice-9 match) for Kiselyov's pmatch.scm | |
| 39 | ** New instructions: define, link-later, link-now, late-variable-{ref,set} | |
| 40 | ** Object code now represented as u8vectors instead of strings. | |
| 41 | ** Remove local import of an old version of slib | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | * Bugfixes | |
| 44 | ** The `optimize' procedure is coming out of bitrot | |
| 45 | ** The Scheme compiler is now more strict about placement of internal | |
| 46 | defines | |
| 47 | ** set! is now compiled differently from define | |
| 48 | ** Module-level variables are now bound at first use instead of in the | |
| 49 | program prolog | |
| 50 | ** Bugfix to load-program (stack misinterpretation) | |
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| 53 | Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are | |
| 56 | permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice | |
| 57 | and this notice are preserved. |