Neko 1.7.0 Released

Hi list,

I'm please to announce the 1.7.0 release of Neko.

A few bugfixes, a few more apis, and some good optimizations
:
   - memory usage should be reduced by 30% (optimized debug
infos)
   - cpu usage should be reduced (threaded interp. for
Linux/OSX)
   - mod_neko can now be a bit configured within apache conf
file
    (more details on this later)
   - a few statistics callbacks has be added in order to
measure
    the time spent by different VM callbacks
    (run with neko -stats for an example)

All changes are the following :
   * nekoc : allow binary ast format with -p, don't allow
inline nxml
   * std : allow int32_new float parameter
   * vm : reduce debug infos memory size by 16
   * vm : fixed $int in case of overflow
   * regexp : upgraded windows ndll to use pcre 7.3 with
utf8 support
   * fixed : math_round(0.5) is now 1
   * fixed : date_set_hour and date_set_day crash with
invalid dates
   * fixed : bug in vm/callback.c when stack address is
>2GB
   * sockets : added support for socket_poll for Windows
   * sockets : added socket_poll_prepare and
socket_poll_events
   * thread : added tls_create, tls_set, tls_get
   * vm : threaded interpreter (gcc only)
   * vm : always use COMPACT_TABLE for objects
   * mod_neko : log some errors into apache log
   * neko+vm : added perf statistics hooks (-stats)
   * mod_neko : scriptable configuration and statistics
   * regexp : allow more than 10 matches
   * std : added process_close
   * vm : added $aconcat
   * nekoc : fixed big arrays declarations
   * std : added sys_is64

Enjoy,
Nicolas

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Neko : One VM to run them all
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Hello Nicolas,

  Congratulations with the release, lots of promising
features! One
  question: which haxe version should we use to target neko
1.7? Is
  1.18 enough?

Mike

> I'm please to announce the 1.7.0 release of Neko.

> A few bugfixes, a few more apis, and some good
optimizations :
>    - memory usage should be reduced by 30% (optimized
debug infos)
>    - cpu usage should be reduced (threaded interp. for
Linux/OSX)
>    - mod_neko can now be a bit configured within apache
conf file
>     (more details on this later)
>    - a few statistics callbacks has be added in order
to measure
>     the time spent by different VM callbacks
>     (run with neko -stats for an example)

> All changes are the following :
>    * nekoc : allow binary ast format with -p, don't
allow inline nxml
>    * std : allow int32_new float parameter
>    * vm : reduce debug infos memory size by 16
>    * vm : fixed $int in case of overflow
>    * regexp : upgraded windows ndll to use pcre 7.3
with utf8 support
>    * fixed : math_round(0.5) is now 1
>    * fixed : date_set_hour and date_set_day crash with
invalid dates
>    * fixed : bug in vm/callback.c when stack address is
>2GB
>    * sockets : added support for socket_poll for
Windows
>    * sockets : added socket_poll_prepare and
socket_poll_events
>    * thread : added tls_create, tls_set, tls_get
>    * vm : threaded interpreter (gcc only)
>    * vm : always use COMPACT_TABLE for objects
>    * mod_neko : log some errors into apache log
>    * neko+vm : added perf statistics hooks (-stats)
>    * mod_neko : scriptable configuration and
statistics
>    * regexp : allow more than 10 matches
>    * std : added process_close
>    * vm : added $aconcat
>    * nekoc : fixed big arrays declarations
>    * std : added sys_is64

> Enjoy,
> Nicolas




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Michael Pliskin a écrit :
> Hello Nicolas,
> 
>   Congratulations with the release, lots of promising
features! One
>   question: which haxe version should we use to target
neko 1.7? Is
>   1.18 enough?

Yes it is enough,
There is no difference in the language and/or bytecode.

Best,
Nicolas

-- 
Neko : One VM to run them all
(http://nekovm.org)

Nicolas,

nice list, congratulations!

i've found that the 1.7 distribution tgz contains an
superfluous
directory level, i.e., unpacks to neko-1.7.0/neko-1.7.0/...
instead of
just one such directory. could that be fixed, please? it
confuses my
package manager.

-dan


quoting Nicolas Cannasse <ncannassemotion-twin.com>:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm please to announce the 1.7.0 release of Neko.
> 
> A few bugfixes, a few more apis, and some good
optimizations :
>    - memory usage should be reduced by 30% (optimized
debug infos)
>    - cpu usage should be reduced (threaded interp. for
Linux/OSX)
>    - mod_neko can now be a bit configured within apache
conf file
>     (more details on this later)
>    - a few statistics callbacks has be added in order
to measure
>     the time spent by different VM callbacks
>     (run with neko -stats for an example)
> 
> All changes are the following :
>    * nekoc : allow binary ast format with -p, don't
allow inline nxml
>    * std : allow int32_new float parameter
>    * vm : reduce debug infos memory size by 16
>    * vm : fixed $int in case of overflow
>    * regexp : upgraded windows ndll to use pcre 7.3
with utf8 support
>    * fixed : math_round(0.5) is now 1
>    * fixed : date_set_hour and date_set_day crash with
invalid dates
>    * fixed : bug in vm/callback.c when stack address is
>2GB
>    * sockets : added support for socket_poll for
Windows
>    * sockets : added socket_poll_prepare and
socket_poll_events
>    * thread : added tls_create, tls_set, tls_get
>    * vm : threaded interpreter (gcc only)
>    * vm : always use COMPACT_TABLE for objects
>    * mod_neko : log some errors into apache log
>    * neko+vm : added perf statistics hooks (-stats)
>    * mod_neko : scriptable configuration and
statistics
>    * regexp : allow more than 10 matches
>    * std : added process_close
>    * vm : added $aconcat
>    * nekoc : fixed big arrays declarations
>    * std : added sys_is64
> 
> Enjoy,
> Nicolas
> 


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Daniel Turing a écrit :
> Nicolas,
> 
> nice list, congratulations!
> 
> i've found that the 1.7 distribution tgz contains an
superfluous
> directory level, i.e., unpacks to
neko-1.7.0/neko-1.7.0/... instead of
> just one such directory. could that be fixed, please?
it confuses my
> package manager.

Should be fixed,

Best,
Nicolas


-- 
Neko : One VM to run them all
(http://nekovm.org)

quoting Nicolas Cannasse <ncannassemotion-twin.com>:
> Daniel Turing a écrit :
> > Nicolas,
> > 
> > nice list, congratulations!
> > 
> > i've found that the 1.7 distribution tgz contains
an superfluous
> > directory level, i.e., unpacks to
neko-1.7.0/neko-1.7.0/... instead
> > of just one such directory. could that be fixed,
please? it
> > confuses my package manager.
> 
> Should be fixed,

Thanks Nicolas,

i've hence updated my gentoo overlay. Gentoo users can
follow the usual
instructions for installation/upgrade at:
  http://xinf.o
rg/trac/wiki/GentooOverlay

-dan

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