Re: Branch Version_2_7_0pre

"Kirill A. Korinsky" <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:37:08 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.gcl.devel
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Any chance to have support of ASDF out of the box?

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wbr, Kirill

> On 20. Dec 2023, at 23:24, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings!  This is to announce the pre-release of GCL 2.7.0.  gcl27
> packages should appear on debian and derivatives shortly.  One can
> compile git branch Version_2_7_0pre in the meantime.
> 
> This branch represents a major overhaul of the system, and will likely
> need to age in the wild before becoming the latest official release.
> Simultaneous installs of gcl26 and gcl27 will be supported on all debian
> systems.
> 
> I will try to summarize the developments in several emails to come.
> Most notable developments are ansi compliance, extensive improvements to the
> compiler and type system, and automatic support for function signatures
> and function-lambda-expression related facilities.
> 
> Also of note is that the compiler itself is slower, as it is doing much
> more, but the code produced is much better.  Some of the heavy lifting
> can be skipped in the future by making better use of the speed
> optimization declaration.  I have tried to keep gcl overhead less than
> the accompanying gcc overhead -- right now we are at a ratio of about
> 2/3.
> 
> The system compile time itself is also longer, but largely unnecessarily
> so.  We attempt to implement all standard functions in lisp, eval the
> source to compile at safety 3, then use the result to compile at safety
> 0.  This bootstrapping can no doubt be improved as time goes on, but
> thus far it has seemed low priority.  Rebuilding the system with its
> optimized self takes about 10 min on a modern laptop.
> 
> Bug reports and feedback are most welcome, but please try to boil these
> down to the lisp level.  I have not yet tried building the standard
> programs with this version on a production basis, but will ensure that
> all are supported at existing performane or better before making a
> standard release.
> 
> Take care,
> --
> Camm Maguire			     		    [email protected]
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