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[Guile-commits] 01/08: Update history.texi.
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Andy Wingo |
Subject: |
[Guile-commits] 01/08: Update history.texi. |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:40:41 -0400 (EDT) |
wingo pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guile.
commit 179f6610a2181cab0cd03c03a34d2aa5a76c33df
Author: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 25 10:44:08 2018 +0200
Update history.texi.
* doc/ref/history.texi (A Timeline of Selected Guile Releases)
(Status): Update.
---
doc/ref/history.texi | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/ref/history.texi b/doc/ref/history.texi
index f7fc4cb..d23d5a0 100644
--- a/doc/ref/history.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/history.texi
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
@c -*-texinfo-*-
@c This is part of the GNU Guile Reference Manual.
address@hidden Copyright (C) 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013
address@hidden Copyright (C) 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2018
@c Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c See the file guile.texi for copying conditions.
@@ -212,12 +212,17 @@ Schemes: SRFI-18 threads, module-hygienic macros, a
profiler, tracer,
and debugger, SSAX XML integration, bytevectors, a dynamic FFI,
delimited continuations, module versions, and partial support for R6RS.
address@hidden 2.2 --- mid-2014
address@hidden 2.2 --- 15 March 2017
The virtual machine and introduced in 2.0 was completely rewritten,
along with much of the compiler and toolchain. This speeds up many
-Guile programs as well as reducing startup time and memory usage. A PEG
-parser toolkit was added, making it easier to write other language
-frontends.
+Guile programs as well as reducing startup time and memory usage.
+Guile's POSIX multithreading was improved, stacks became dynamically
+expandable, the ports facility gained support for non-blocking I/O.
+
address@hidden 3.0 -- early 2019 (unreleased at time of writing)
+Guile gained support for native code generation via a simple
+just-in-time (JIT) compiler, further improving the speed of its virtual
+machine.
@end table
@node Status
@@ -259,11 +264,12 @@ entirely from high-level languages, through byte-code and
native
compilation, speed gains in the underlying hardware, and foreign call
interfaces in the high-level language. Smalltalk systems are like this,
as are Common Lisp-based systems. While there already are a number of
-pure-Guile applications out there, users still need to drop down to C
-for some tasks: interfacing to system libraries that don't have prebuilt
-Guile interfaces, and for some tasks requiring high performance. Native
-ahead-of-time compilation, planned for Guile 3.0, should help with
-this.
+pure-Guile applications out there, in the past users have still needed
+to drop down to C for some tasks: interfacing to system libraries that
+don't have prebuilt Guile interfaces, and for some tasks requiring high
+performance. With the arrival of native code generation via a JIT
+compiler in Guile 3.0, most of these older applications can now be
+updated to move more C code to Scheme.
Still, even with an all-Guile application, sometimes you want to
provide an opportunity for users to extend your program from a
- [Guile-commits] branch master updated (a74b4a4 -> 4c53593), Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28
- [Guile-commits] 07/08: Update "Stack Layout", Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28
- [Guile-commits] 08/08: Update "Variables and the VM", Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28
- [Guile-commits] 04/08: Update "A Virtual Machine for Guile", Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28
- [Guile-commits] 06/08: Update "VM Concepts", Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28
- [Guile-commits] 01/08: Update history.texi.,
Andy Wingo <=
- [Guile-commits] 02/08: Update Conservative GC section of manual, Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28
- [Guile-commits] 03/08: Update data representation chapter in the manual, Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28
- [Guile-commits] 05/08: Update "Why a VM?", Andy Wingo, 2018/09/28