From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Israelsson Tampe Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user,gmane.lisp.guile.sources,gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: GNU Guile 2.9.9 Released [beta] Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:13:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zherlphs.fsf@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="16827"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: Guile User , guile-sources@gnu.org, guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 14 21:14:27 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1irSa2-0003mX-AL for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:14:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45530 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irSa1-0005ZD-1E for guile-user@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:14:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1irSZd-0005NF-GN for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:14:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irSZY-0003ED-1M for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:14:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wr1-x42c.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::42c]:38615) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1irSZX-0003Ba-Ho; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:13:55 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wr1-x42c.google.com with SMTP id y17so13523705wrh.5; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:13:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=SnP76QOgyCS6UEAdHabGtZlzPNhPtJsqnY1q4AVyN6o=; b=E7h/OIVUuToRCJrujsPKDfkD7RkSgRMcADQxogxSssgB1Q/uGAez/5REV+KiVhtGtF yYU0oufJTpe819x9GTMxu8zE+OmAb0iVz3l7hq5/HQkj7zUGdDo13x20iVABscSYn4z9 J8BUCgSLHD83fv2EAcICX8m2Hl1t+2uhSozlcackfHVDSDa7N0a/3myqGtTw1jPKNA4V 5SL65ymqOYzduNXV5dQruhlgQEZ1iq8AhGgwJPDiBKgKq0y4nAw8W2SJj6tXKYyvhfRz 2vhAf0CjykmJUs59PKrljiXbQIlRI39Ku39nVQmNrMst8IeZ2ErZHeXXKmr6QRQEtxK9 59gQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=SnP76QOgyCS6UEAdHabGtZlzPNhPtJsqnY1q4AVyN6o=; b=HS2vaJfmUlUdVP9E3UTToTcpfn++msVAHof1iwyCJs028LLtyM9yxpdjaVzGR/RgNU HGsPVHEuo6sLGb3aQCEa7LPTEq+hHiWzjjURrcD/l8f4qf3ETWSYI4zoGpJrWWlUqyIs +GAgen5yRPAVr2dE+mqxtYHI6VbEwjsxUzOQUmS+szU6JYcU/jUcvWheOiwMQC3qPEgW snhBl9mrihQvggba3rQNCiT3aMPWw2gojI2Ut0vNJR3BZkopc3FxYK/DIOGIX2ZtGbVv ZWD6Nizc6yz3oRfljpl1iJaa06zLgVtAO63rvfExln9EI7W5JBiHxLj8gz+n3ZIbt8Pn DBjA== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAX1t9jc47yBFPW+DBTMJf2mCxtZriP5ahq2e4/k/0s3LS232VB5 HsfgEMht2DJX/V0VKtBNoSe+Da05nd/U4Tr7GlM= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxF1dgZlo4AP0MNSRmC2D6ht10n0454Hp+oT8XAdLB33B7IZLSz7oXxzJ9ZxhRvj5DnuQkZuBYz4gjPJ3mo3C0= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:5044:: with SMTP id h4mr26431850wrt.4.1579032833637; Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:13:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87zherlphs.fsf@pobox.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::42c X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:16056 gmane.lisp.guile.sources:529 gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20277 Archived-At: Okey, here is another case that fails with the patch that prevents identity misses for toplevels e.g we need similar fixes for anonymous functions. (define-module (b) #:export (q)) (define h (make-hash-table)) (define (method f) (hash-set! h f 1) f) (define q (method (lambda x x))) (pk (hash-ref h q)) This fails with (#f) I solved this in my code by placing the method function in another module. On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:39 AM Andy Wingo wrote: > We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.9.9. This is the ninfth > and probably final pre-release of what will eventually become the 3.0 > release series. > > Compared to the current stable series (2.2.x), the future Guile 3.0 adds > support for just-in-time native code generation, speeding up all Guile > programs. See the NEWS extract at the end of the mail for full details. > > Compared to the previous prerelease (2.9.7), Guile 2.9.8 fixes a number > of bugs. > > The current plan is to make a 3.0.0 final release on 17 January 2020. > If there's nothing wrong with this prerelease, 3.0.0 will be essentially > identical to 2.9.9. With that in mind, please test and make sure the > release works on your platform! Please send any build reports (success > or failure) to guile-devel@gnu.org, along with platform details. 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However besides the imprecision about when a > given binding is actually referenced, this mechanism used to cause the > whole imported module to become available, not just the specified > bindings. This has now been changed to only import the specified binding= s. > > This is a backward-incompatible change. The fix is to mention all > bindings of interest in the autoload clause. Feedback is welcome. > > ** `guard' no longer unwinds the stack for clause tests > > SRFI-34, and then R6RS and R7RS, defines a `guard' form that is a > shorthand for `with-exception-handler'. The cond-like clauses for the > exception handling are specified to run with the continuation of the > `guard', while any re-propagation of the exception happens with the > continuation of the original `raise'. > > In practice, this means that one needs full `call-with-continuation' to > implement the specified semantics, to be able to unwind the stack to the > cond clauses, then rewind if none match. This is not only quite > expensive, it is also error-prone as one usually doesn't want to rewind > dynamic-wind guards in an exceptional situation. Additionally, as > continuations bind tightly to the current thread, it makes it impossible > to migrate a subcomputation with a different thread if a `guard' is live > on the stack, as is done in Fibers. > > Guile now works around these issues by running the test portion of the > guard expressions within the original `raise' continuation, and only > unwinding once a test matches. This is an incompatible semantic change > but we think the situation is globally much better, and we expect that > very few people will be affected by the change. > > ** Improve SRFI-43 vector-fill! > > SRFI-43 vector-fill! now has the same performance whether an optional > range is provided or not, and is also provided in core. As a side > effect, vector-fill! and vector_fill_x no longer work on non-vector > rank-1 arrays. Such cases were handled incorrectly before; for example, > prior to this change: > > (define a (make-vector 10 'x)) > (define b (make-shared-array a (lambda (i) (list (* 2 i))) 5)) > (vector-fill! b 'y) > > =3D> #1(y y y x x) > > This is now an error. Instead, use array-fill!. > > ** Fix compilation on 32-bit targets > > A compile error introduced in 2.9.3 prevented compilation on 32-bit > targets. This has been fixed. > > ** Fix a bug in closure conversion > > Thanks for Stefan Israelsson Tampe for the report. > > ** Fix omission in R7RS support > > Somewhat embarrassingly, the R7RS support added earlier in 2.9 failed to > include an implementation of `define-library'. This oversight has been > corrected :) > > ** Optionally allow duplicate field names in core records > > See the new #:allow-duplicate-field-names? keyword argument to > `make-record-type' in the manual, for more. This restores a needed > feature to R6RS records. > > ** Fix default value of thread-local fluids > > Before, `fluid-ref' on an unbound thread-local fluid was returning #f > instead of the default value of the fluid. Thanks to Rob Browning for > the fix! > > > > Changes in alpha 2.9.x (since the stable 2.2 series): > > * Notable changes > > ** Just-in-time code generation > > Guile programs now run up to 4 times faster, relative to Guile 2.2, > thanks to just-in-time (JIT) native code generation. Notably, this > brings the performance of "eval" as written in Scheme back to the level > of "eval" written in C, as in the days of Guile 1.8. > > See "Just-In-Time Native Code" in the manual, for more information. JIT > compilation will be enabled automatically and transparently. To disable > JIT compilation, configure Guile with `--enable-jit=3Dno' or > `--disable-jit'. The default is `--enable-jit=3Dauto', which enables the > JIT if it is available. See `./configure --help' for more. > > JIT compilation is enabled by default on x86-64, i686, ARMv7, and > AArch64 targets. > > ** Lower-level bytecode > > Relative to the virtual machine in Guile 2.2, Guile's VM instruction set > is now more low-level. This allows it to express more advanced > optimizations, for example type check elision or integer > devirtualization, and makes the task of JIT code generation easier. > > Note that this change can mean that for a given function, the > corresponding number of instructions in Guile 3.0 may be higher than > Guile 2.2, which can lead to slowdowns when the function is interpreted. > We hope that JIT compilation more than makes up for this slight > slowdown. > > ** Interleaved internal definitions and expressions allowed > > It used to be that internal definitions had to precede all expressions > in their bodies. This restriction has been relaxed. If an expression > precedes an internal definition, it is treated as if it were a > definition of an unreferenced variable. For example, the expression > `(foo)' transforms to the equivalent of `(define _ (begin (foo) #f))', > if it precedes other definitions. > > This change improves the readability of Guile programs, as it used to be > that program indentation tended to increase needlessly to allow nested > `let' and `letrec' to re-establish definition contexts after initial > expressions, for example for type-checks on procedure arguments. > > ** Record unification > > Guile used to have a number of implementations of structured data types > in the form of "records": a core facility, SRFI-9 (records), SRFI-35 > (condition types -- a form of records) and R6RS records. These > facilities were not compatible, as they all were built in different > ways. This had the unfortunate corollary that SRFI-35 conditions were > not compatible with R6RS conditions. To fix this problem, we have now > added the union of functionality from all of these record types into > core records: single-inheritance subtyping, mutable and immutable > fields, and so on. See "Records" in the manual, for full details. > > R6RS records, SRFI-9 records, and the SRFI-35 and R6RS exception types > have been accordingly "rebased" on top of core records. > > ** Reimplementation of exceptions > > Since Guile's origins 25 years ago, `throw' and `catch' have been the > primary exception-handling primitives. However these primitives have > two problems. One is that it's hard to handle exceptions in a > structured way using `catch'. Few people remember what the > corresponding `key' and `args' are that an exception handler would see > in response to a call to `error', for example. In practice, this > results in more generic catch-all exception handling than one might > like. > > The other problem is that `throw', `catch', and especially > `with-throw-handler' are quite unlike what the rest of the Scheme world > uses. R6RS and R7RS, for example, have mostly converged on > SRFI-34-style `with-exception-handler' and `raise' primitives, and > encourage the use of SRFI-35-style structured exception objects to > describe the error. Guile's R6RS layer incorporates an adapter between > `throw'/`catch' and structured exception handling, but it didn't apply > to SRFI-34/SRFI-35, and we would have to duplicate it for R7RS. > > In light of these considerations, Guile has now changed to make > `with-exception-handler' and `raise-exception' its primitives for > exception handling and defined a hierarchy of R6RS-style exception types > in its core. SRFI-34/35, R6RS, and the exception-handling components of > SRFI-18 (threads) have been re-implemented in terms of this core > functionality. There is also a a compatibility layer that makes it so > that exceptions originating in `throw' can be handled by > `with-exception-hander', and vice-versa for `raise-exception' and > `catch'. > > Generally speaking, users will see no difference. The one significant > difference is that users of SRFI-34 will see more exceptions flowing > through their `with-exception-handler'/`guard' forms, because whereas > before they would only see exceptions thrown by SRFI-34, now they will > see exceptions thrown by R6RS, R7RS, or indeed `throw'. > > Guile's situation is transitional. Most exceptions are still signalled > via `throw'. These will probably migrate over time to > `raise-exception', while preserving compatibility of course. > > See "Exceptions" in the manual, for full details on the new API. > > ** Optimization of top-level bindings within a compilation unit > > At optimization level 2 and above, Guile's compiler is now allowed to > inline top-level definitions within a compilation unit. See > "Declarative Modules" in the manual, for full details. This change can > improve the performance of programs with many small top-level > definitions by quite a bit! > > At optimization level 3 and above, Guile will assume that any top-level > binding in a declarative compilation unit that isn't exported from a > module can be completely inlined into its uses. (Prior to this change, > -O3 was the same as -O2.) Note that with this new > `seal-private-bindings' pass, private declarative bindings are no longer > available for access from the first-class module reflection API. The > optimizations afforded by this pass can be useful when you need a speed > boost, but having them enabled at optimization level 3 means they are > not on by default, as they change Guile's behavior in ways that users > might not expect. > > ** By default, GOOPS classes are not redefinable > > It used to be that all GOOPS classes were redefinable, at least in > theory. This facility was supported by an indirection in all "struct" > instances, even though only a subset of structs would need redefinition. > We wanted to remove this indirection, in order to speed up Guile > records, allow immutable Guile records to eventually be described by > classes, and allow for some optimizations in core GOOPS classes that > shouldn't be redefined anyway. > > Thus in GOOPS now there are classes that are redefinable and classes > that aren't. By default, classes created with GOOPS are not > redefinable. To make a class redefinable, it should be an instance of > `'. See "Redefining a Class" in the manual for more > information. > > ** Define top-level bindings for aux syntax: `else', `=3D>', `...', `_' > > These auxiliary syntax definitions are specified to be defined in the > R6RS and the R7RS. They were previously unbound, even in the R6RS > modules. This change is not anticipated to cause any incompatibility > with existing Guile code, and improves things for R6RS and R7RS users. > > ** Conventional gettext alias is now `G_' > > Related to the last point, since the "Fix literal matching for > module-bound literals" change in the 2.2 series, it was no longer > possible to use the conventional `_' binding as an alias for `gettext', > because a local `_' definition would prevent `_' from being recognized > as auxiliary syntax for `match', `syntax-rules', and similar. The new > recommended conventional alias for `gettext' is `G_'. > > ** Add --r6rs command-line option > > The new `install-r6rs!' procedure adapts Guile's defaults to be more > R6RS-compatible. This procedure is called if the user passes `--r6rs' > as a command-line argument. See "R6RS Incompatibilities" in the manual, > for full details. > > ** Add support for R7RS > > Thanks to G=C3=B6ran Weinholt and OKUMURA Yuki, Guile now implements the = R7RS > modules. As the R7RS library syntax is a subset of R6RS, to use R7RS > you just `(import (scheme base))' and off you go. As with R6RS also, > there are some small lexical incompatibilities regarding hex escapes; > see "R6RS Support" in the manual, for full details. > > Also as with R6RS, there is an `install-r7rs!' procedure and a `--r7rs' > command-line option. > > ** Add #:re-export-and-replace argument to `define-module' > > This new keyword specifies a set of bindings to re-export, but also > marks them as intended to replace core bindings. See "Creating Guile > Modules" in the manual, for full details. > > Note to make this change, we had to change the way replacement flags are > stored, to being associated with modules instead of individual variable > objects. This means that users who #:re-export an imported binding that > was already marked as #:replace by another module will now see warnings, > as they need to use #:re-export-and-replace instead. > > ** `iota' in core and SRFI-1 `iota' are the same > > Previously, `iota' in core would not accept start and step arguments and > would return an empty list for negative count. Now there is only one > `iota' function with the extended semantics of SRFI-1. Note that as an > incompatible change, core `iota' no longer accepts a negative count. > > * New deprecations > > ** scm_t_uint8, etc deprecated in favor of C99 stdint.h > > It used to be that Guile defined its own `scm_t_uint8' because C99 > `uint8_t' wasn't widely enough available. Now Guile finally made the > change to use C99 types, both internally and in Guile's public headers. > > Note that this also applies to SCM_T_UINT8_MAX, SCM_T_INT8_MIN, for intN > and uintN for N in 8, 16, 32, and 64. Guile also now uses ptrdiff_t > instead of scm_t_ptrdiff, and similarly for intmax_t, uintmax_t, > intptr_t, and uintptr_t. > > ** The two-argument form of `record-constructor' > > Calling `record-constructor' with two arguments (the record type and a > list of field names) is deprecated. Instead, call with just one > argument, and provide a wrapper around that constructor if needed. > > * Incompatible changes > > ** All deprecated code removed > > All code deprecated in Guile 2.2 has been removed. See older NEWS, and > check that your programs can compile without linker warnings and run > without runtime warnings. See "Deprecation" in the manual. > > In particular, the function `scm_generalized_vector_get_handle' which > was deprecated in 2.0.9 but remained in 2.2, has now finally been > removed. As a replacement, use `scm_array_get_handle' to get a handle > and `scm_array_handle_rank' to check the rank. > > ** Remove "self" field from vtables and "redefined" field from classes > > These fields were used as part of the machinery for class redefinition > and is no longer needed. > > ** VM hook manipulation simplified > > The low-level mechanism to instrument a running virtual machine for > debugging and tracing has been simplified. See "VM Hooks" in the > manual, for more. > > * Changes to the distribution > > ** New effective version > > The "effective version" of Guile is now 3.0, which allows parallel > installation with other effective versions (for example, the older Guile > 2.2). See "Parallel Installations" in the manual for full details. > Notably, the `pkg-config' file is now `guile-3.0', and there are new > `guile-3' and `guile-3.0' features for `cond-expand'. > >