1. Beta TRANSLATOR?
- Posted by Euman <euman at BELLSOUTH.NET>
Jan 17, 2001
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Last edited Jan 18, 2001
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After a couple weeks, after being told maybe in a couple weeks, any =
ideas on the next translator release?
Eager to have mach_proc(41)
???
euman
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2. Re: Beta TRANSLATOR?
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RAPIDEUPHORIA.COM>
Jan 17, 2001
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Last edited Jan 18, 2001
Euman writes:
> After a couple weeks, after being told maybe
> in a couple weeks, any ideas on the next translator
> release?
The Translator is coming along nicely.
I'm adding a lot of extra optimizations that
I hadn't planned on doing a couple of weeks ago.
Some of the optimizations are pretty spiffy. Some are
global optimizations that a normal compiler would never
attempt, but I can do because I get to see the
*whole* program, i.e. I can see all the calls to each routine
(routine_id calls complicate things a bit),
and all uses of variables. Optimizers in other languages
are limited by separately-compiled and linked files,
and by pointers. Pointers let you modify variables secretly,
via the "back door". In Euphoria you can only modify a
variable explicitly, via an assignment (or passing to a parameter).
This makes things clear for the optimizer.
I'm hoping to have a beta release in about 2 weeks.
After that I don't plan to add much code, just fix reported
bugs and do intensive testing. A couple of weeks later
I hope to have an official release of the Translator for 2.2.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
