[M3devel] merging head m3front to release

[Tony Hosking]

Yes.

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On 14 Jan 2010, at 17:28, Jay K wrote:

> If it's just a wholesale copy, I can do that fairly easily/quickly/soon.
>   Anyone can.
> You are certain a wholesale copy, of all of m3front? Final answer?
>  
>  - Jay
> 
>  
> From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:44:54 -0500
> To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] merging head m3front to release
> 
> 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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