[Newcompiler] [ANN] NewCompiler#248

[Marcus Denker]

On 25.07.2007, at 13:02, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> excellent! So may be the new compiler could be pushed to 3.10 to  
> get more users and exposure.

3.10 is too early... it should be released, not extended in scope  
even more to be delayed forever.

> Marcus could you summarize all the improvements done so far?  
> Because we have now a better error handling and decompiler.
>
> What we saw with mathieu is that it would be good to have a pattern  
> matcher for identifying
> inlined methods.
>
> Stef
> On 25 juil. 07, at 11:47, Marcus Denker wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is now a new pre-build NewCompiler image at
>>
>> 	http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/NewCompiler
>>
>> The highlight of this image is the latest work of Mathieu: for non- 
>> Closure mode, the Decompiler
>> now	 is working! It is possible to decompile the complete image  
>> and recompile it again and it
>> continues to work.
>>
>> There are some smaller changes
>> 	-> Recompiler now treats Traits methods correctly. It used to  
>> flatten traits methods.
>> 	-> Some refactorings for the AST to store formatting  data as  
>> properties, not as iVars.
>>
>> 	Marcus
>>
>> --
>> Marcus Denker  --  denker at iam.unibe.ch
>> http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~denker
>>
>>
>>
>

	Marcus
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