Progress towards Exupery 0.12

[Chris Muller]

Bryce, will Exupery be able to determine what *should* be compiled?

Also, what is the status on LargeInteger support?

Thanks.

On 5/2/07, bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk <bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk writes:
>  > Sebastian Sastre writes:
>  >  > Good job Bryce. I know that it's just too soon to say but do you have any
>  >  > glimpse of the stability of an image running wit exupery? There is any
>  >  > version that could be stable enough to try it in production or it is too
>  >  > soon?
>  >
>  > Ask me closer to to the release.
>  >
>  > At the moment it can only compile in the background for a few minutes
>  > then it runs into trouble. Just DNU's that can be fixed by
>  > initializing Exupery.
>  >
>  > Are you interested in running it in production soon? I've not yet
>  > decided how quickly to push for stability vs. other things. Closer
>  > to the release it'll be easier to decide but interest does matter
>  > too.
>
> My goal for the next release is only to be able to run the background
> compiler for an hour without crashing. I don't know how reliable that
> will be in a production environment.
>
> But it depends on what the constraints of the production environment
> are. You can always restrict what Exupery will compile rather than
> letting it compile everything. By restricting what it will be able
> to compile you could use it now.
>
> Compilation can be slow. There's a few performance bugs in the
> register allocator that I mean to fix after the release. Compilation
> can always be done in a low priority background thread so that might
> not matter.
>
> Bryce
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