Neko 1.2
Posted on Jan 09 2006
Neko 1.2 have just been released on http://nekovm.org
This include several major changes :
- runtime exceptions : several operations that were returning "null" before are now raising an exception. This is the case for invalid function calls (not a function or invalid number of arguments), object field access (for example null.x) , array access (still null if outside of bounds) and numerical operations.
- linker : using
nekoc -link
you can now link a lot of .n bytecode files together into a single standalone .n file - nekoboot : this utility enable you to create standalone executables from a single bytecode file
- renaming : the neko virtual machine is now named
neko
(instead of nekovm) and both neko and nekoml compilers are namednekoc
andnekoml
. Compilers are built using nekoboot and are then standalone executables (this is more easy to use, simplynekoc myfile.neko
). - TCO : tail recursion optimizations in Neko
- Object Prototypes : object can now have chained prototype (see Language Reference Documentation)
- standard library : added UTF8 support, improved XML parser, and other useful primitives as well
- licence change : Neko 1.2 is now LGPL while Neko 1.1 was GPL
There is also some experimental JIT but it's not yet stable and is currently very slow (the JIT-generator, not the generated code).
I'm looking for people interested in using Neko as a target for compilers and research papers, contact me directly or on Neko mailing list if interested.
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(you)Feb 26, 2021 at 07:42