[MacRuby-devel] trunk status update

[s.ross]

Great progress. I'm pretty sure you would have mentioned it in the  
release notes if it were stable, but has there been any progress  
making MacRuby work properly on Snow Leopard 32-bit architectures like  
the Core Duo? (nag, nag :)

Thx


On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> Another status update, covering about 2 weeks of development.
>
> Highlights:
>
> - Early backtracing support.
> - Much better AOT compilation. Parts of the standard library are now  
> pre-compiled for testing.
> - Migrated to LLVM top of tree.
> - Dispatcher performance is now back to normal (we lost about 30%  
> due to gcc not inlining code).
> - Many bug fixes.
>
> We are content-complete for a first beta release of MacRuby 0.5.  We  
> will release it very soon then continue converging until the final  
> 0.5 release.
>
> Details:
>
> - Better GCD documentation
> - Implemented Symbol.all_symbols
> - Rewrote the file loader (file.c) fixing a few bugs
> - Added preliminary support for backtracing / symbolication
> - Make sure stdio objects are never finalized
> - Fixed more eval/Binding bugs
> - Fixed END{} block
> - Fixed a memory problem in the libyaml extension
> - Fixed rescues in rescues (most cases)
> - Fixed a 10.5-only bug in the new Array class
> - Fixed a bug of the parser when dealing with byte strings
> - AOT: now compiling part of the stdlib (notably irb and rubygems)
> - AOT: fixed bugs in the compilation of defined?, undef,  
> rb_eStandardError, literal ranges
> - Fixed a bug in the compilation of `for' loops
> - Fixed many minor compilation bugs discovered by the LLVM module  
> verifier
> - The arguments resolver is now able to deal with any number of  
> arguments
> - Fixed minor String bugs
> - Added autorelease and dealloc to the list of handled ignored  
> selectors
> - Fixed a bug when instance variables were not visible from within  
> an iterator in method called through KVO
> - Fixed an infinite recursion trying to convert an NSPathStore2 to a  
> string
> - Moved to LLVM r82747, enabled LLVM multithreaded mode
> - Fixed GC problems in the parser
> - Create all ruby scopes with external linkage, otherwise the AOT  
> compiler won't generate frame info for them
> - Fixed a bug when open would crash when mode is numeric
> - Now using a gcc constructor to initialize .rbo files
> - Added Dispatch::Semaphore + fixed a few things
> - Make sure RoxorVM instances created lazily have a valid thread  
> accessor
> - Fixed a random bug of Numeric#chr
> - macruby is now SIGINT interruptible (but no exception is raised,  
> yet)
> - Fixed a few 32-bit only bugs
> - Fixed a GC bug in builtin global variable setters
> - Fixed a bug in Set#to_a
> - Fixed the BridgeSupport parser to properly handle one liner  
> <method> elements
> - Fixed variadic functions/methods calls
> - Fixed a few bugs in Array#pack
> - Fixed a serious bug in the way we used to promote strings to byte  
> strings
> - Fixed a few bugs in IO#ioctl and IO#fcntl
> - Now separately compiling the dispatcher and forcing function  
> inlining
> - Fixed a bug in File.open when file permissions were not taken into  
> account
> - Make sure ivar slot generation is disabled when compiling attr  
> accessors
> - Fixed a bug in the way we AOT compile super method cache
> - Added an empty Ruby template file
> - Improved the MacRuby Application template: Embed MacRuby target  
> and some unit testing mechanism are added
>
> Laurent
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