<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Randal L. Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:merlyn@stonehenge.com">merlyn@stonehenge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
>>>>> "Eliot" == Eliot Miranda <<a href="mailto:eliot.miranda@gmail.com">eliot.miranda@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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Eliot> Mathew, and others,<br>
Eliot> are you interested in using the closure compiler and VM extensions I've<br>
Eliot> done at Qwaq in 4.0? These provide ANSI closures with no peformance<br>
Eliot> degradation and a very small (5 bytecode) increment to the VM.<br>
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(Wearing my Leadership Team hat for a moment...)<br>
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My initial thought is that I want 3.10.2 and 4.0 to be as close as possible,<br>
differing only in license-mandated issues, so that SFC will have as little<br>
work as possible to do to assist us with the verification.<br>
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However, I *would* like those extensions in a release soon. I imagine<br>
that shortly after we get 4.0 released and stabilized, the 3.11 work<br>
will be folded in to make 4.1, and your changes can go in then as well.<br>
The exact incorporation process is up to the Release Team though.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Works for me. When and if the VM is no longer backwards-compatible (e.g. the Stack VM) one can move to 5.0.</div><div>However, I would recommend getting the VM changes into the 4.0 VM as this will make migrating to image-level closures much easier. I believe (John, can you confirm) that John's latest Mac 3.8 beta VMs have included the closure bytecodes.</div>
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