>On the tooling front we've also added two new features: a statistical >profiler for analysing performance, and a graphical debugger called >"feathers", which allows you to inspect your Scheme programs over the >network. These have both been documented in the manual. The debugger >has its own chapter at https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Debugging and the >profiler's new -:p runtime option is >documented at >https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Using%20the%20compiler#runtime-options
Can I hug you? Like, now? On Sat, May 28, 2016, 09:46 Peter Bex <pe...@more-magic.net> wrote: > Dear CHICKEN users, > > We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CHICKEN 4.11.0 > at the following URL: > https://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.11.0/chicken-4.11.0.tar.gz > > This tarball has the following SHA256 checksum: > e3dc2b8f95b6a3cd59c85b5bb6bdb2bd9cefc45b5d536a20cad74e3c63f4ad89 > > This release introduces several large changes, the one with the most > impact being a completely new calling convention for compiled CPS > procedures in C code. Instead of expecting "regular" C arguments, > the compiled C functions now accept a so-called "argvector" which > holds the arguments. This should greatly improve the portability of > CHICKEN programs, because it relies less on ill-specified parts of C. > It also removes the assembly code required for manyargs, so that the > limitation of 128 arguments for platforms without an "apply hack" has > finally been removed. > > On the tooling front we've also added two new features: a statistical > profiler for analysing performance, and a graphical debugger called > "feathers", which allows you to inspect your Scheme programs over the > network. These have both been documented in the manual. The debugger > has its own chapter at https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Debugging and the > profiler's new -:p runtime option is documented at > https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Using%20the%20compiler#runtime-options > > As usual, many bugs have been fixed with this release, including several > bugs that would cause programs to crash. All in all, this new release > should be much more robust and reliable. > > For the complete list of changes since 4.10.0, see the NEWS file: > https://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.11.0/NEWS > > After this release, the core team has decided to focus its efforts on > CHICKEN 5. The 4.x series is still officially supported and will > continue to receive bugfixes for critical bugs. If enough bugs have > been fixed, there may be a 4.12 release, but new feature development > is going to be exclusive to the 5 branch. > > Regards, > The CHICKEN Team > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users >
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