Re: Scheme 48 1.9 release candidate #1

On Dec 30, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Michael Sperber wrote:

> After something like 2.5 years of release engineering, I've put RCs =
for
> Scheme 48 1.9 at:
>=20
> http://s48.org/1.9/scheme48-1.9rc1.tgz
> http://s48.org/1.9/scheme48-1.9rc1.msi
>=20
> I'd appreciate if people could give this a whirl.

Compiled and ran tests on a 2008 SUSE Linux, all ok.
Compiled (with ./configure CFLAGS=3D"-O0") and ran tests on Lion, all =
ok.
Without -O0 on Lion compilation and execution were excruciatingly slow, =
as you reported.
Haven't tested it with my own programs yet.
Jonathan

>  I'm especially
> interested in reports Mac OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 8.
>=20
> There are many things to say about this release; I'll say (some of) =
them
> with the actual release announcement.  I hope to push out the actual
> release by mid-January.  Sorry for taking so long.
>=20
> NOTE: On my Mac OS X Lion installation, Xcode's C compilers come with =
a
> prerelease LLVM backend that has a bug which essentially breaks
> compiling the Scheme 48 VM.  (The compile takes forever, and the
> resulting VM is unbearably slow.)  This affects both the Clang and the
> gcc front ends.  The only solution I know to this problem is to =
install
> LLVM/Clang via some other route.  I use the Clang/LLVM binaries from =
the
> LLVM download page at:
>=20
> http://llvm.org/releases/download.html
>=20
> (Note that Clang generates many, many warnings, but the resulting
> compile is fine.)
>=20
> --=20
> Regards,
> Mike
>=20