[M3devel] merging head m3front to release

[Tony Hosking]

On 14 Jan 2010, at 05:23, Jay K wrote:

>  > merging head m3front to release
>  
> The changes are big and I don't understand them right away.
> Just do a wholesale copy?
> (and remember related changes to m3tk and m3core)
>  
> A parameter got renamed lhs => traced or vice versa 
> through a lot of the code, but not always. And the value
> of it sometimes changed but not always.

That's not related to LONGINT, but is in fact a performance bug fix (eliminates a number of unnecessary GC barriers).

I won't have time to do the merge for at least a couple of weeks.  But, yes, I would plan on a wholesale copy.
Yes, not to forget the other changes too.  I think there were a few other places where the change to using VAL for all conversions required turning ORD into VAL.

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