[svn:parrot] r46758 - trunk
whiteknight at svn.parrot.org
whiteknight at svn.parrot.org
Tue May 18 13:48:46 UTC 2010
Author: whiteknight
Date: Tue May 18 13:48:46 2010
New Revision: 46758
URL: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/46758
Log:
Expand NEWS. more to do
Modified:
trunk/NEWS
Modified: trunk/NEWS
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--- trunk/NEWS Tue May 18 13:27:19 2010 (r46757)
+++ trunk/NEWS Tue May 18 13:48:46 2010 (r46758)
@@ -4,15 +4,29 @@
- Core
+ Various long-standing bugs in IMCC were fixed
+ STRINGs are now immutable.
+ + use STRINGNULL instead of NULL when working with strings
+ + Fixed storage of methods in the NameSpace PMC
+ + Added :nsentry flag to force method to be stored in the NameSpace
+ + Added StringBuilder PMC
+- Compilers
+ + Fixed reporting of line numbers in IMCC
+ + Removed deprecated NQP compiler, replaced with new NQP-RX
+ + Removed NCIGen compiler
- Deprecations
+ Tools to distribute on CPAN were removed
+ + Deprecated dynpmcs have been removed to external repositories
+ + Removed RetContinuation PMC
+ + Removed CGoto, CGP, and Switch runcores
- Tests
+ Many tests for the extend/embed interface were added
+ done_testing() is now implemented in Test::More
- Tools
- + the fakexecutable tapir is renamed parrot-prove
+ + The fakexecutable tapir is renamed parrot-prove
+ + Performance fixes to the pbc_to_exe tool
+ + Fix data_json to work outside of trunk
- Miscellaneous
+ Six Parrot-related projects accepted to GSoC
+ + Improve use of const and other compiler hints
New in 2.3.0
- Core
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