Parrot の履歴(No.3)

12/03/2008: [Parrot] Parrot 1.0は来年3月にリリースされる
Parrotのバージョンが上がってきた。いよいよ、Perl 6がやってくるかもしれない。少しずつ理解するための準備を進めよう。(2008-10-26: jscripter)

ドキュメンテーションの項にBOOKの項目がある。新しい本が出るのかも・・・

Parrot 0.8.1 News: Parrot 0.8.1 "Tio Richie" Released! | Parrot VMより

Implementation
1. added CPAN module Storable 2.12 as a configuration and build dependency
2. removed the pseudo PIR opcode 'addr'
3. added the 'box' opcode
4. fixed 'pop_eh' handling in PIR libraries and examples
5. removed usage of .return for tailcalls (use .tailcall instead)
6. removed 'get_hash' and 'get_array' from Capture PMC and Capture_PIR
7. improved debugger and HLL coordination
8. allowed MMD primitive autoboxing
9. fixed all known memory leaks in PIR "Hello, world!"
10. NCI signatures now JITted on x86-32 platforms (Windows and Linux)
11. made the .const directive take a quoted type name instead of a constant
12. made IMCC more re-entrant
Languages
1. Rakudo
  - refactored Junctions implementation
  - added "fire and forget" tool to rebase/rebuild/test Parrot and Rakudo
  - updated container/reference semantics
  - added more builtin methods and functions
  - improved support for multilevel namespaces
  - added support for .Str, .succ, .pred in user-defined classes
  - implemented pointy blocks on if/loops
  - increased STD.pm convergence
  - added %*VM hash
  - improved MMD candidate sorting
  - improved integration of Num and Int
  - implemented increment on protoobjects
  - added initial support for MAIN subs
  - added .PARROT method
2. Pipp
  - added some predefined constants.
  - added implemention of the function basename().
3. Cardinal (Ruby)
  - Added initial support for the classes Proc, Continuation, Queue, Dir, File, and FileStat
  - fixed various minor bugs
  - fixed broken Regexes
Compilers
1. PCT
  - added '.isa' method to PCT::Node
  - cleaned up 'immediate block' handling
  - allowed arguments to immediate blocks in loops/conditionals
  - metaclass objects can now 'add_method'
2. PIRC
  - integrated macro processing in PIRC's lexer
  - integrated heredoc lexer in PIRC executable
  - added preprocess and heredoc-preprocess commandline options
  - integrated the PASM grammar into PIRC
  - added a register allocator to optimize the built-in vanilla allocator
  - code cleanups and documentation
  - added 'make test' target
3. TGE
  - updated to work with new namespace/classname syntax
  - Deprecations
4. PARROT_API will become PARROT_EXPORT
5. :lexid will become :subid
Miscellaneous
1. Documentation
  - updates and additions to the Parrot book (see docs/book/)
2. OpenGL
  - minor fixes to Parrot's base OpenGL bindings
  - converted OpenGL PIR examples to Perl 6 (two complete, one WIP)
  - added simplified OpenGL PIR example for NCI JIT testing
3. Tests
  - further improvements to parallel tests
  - tests no longer leave filesystem breadcrumbs

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