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{ $subheading "Performance" }
{ $list
{ "Continuations are now supported by the static stack effect system. This means that the " { $link infer } " word and the optimizing compiler now both support code which uses continuations." }
{ "Many words which previously ran in the interpreter, such as error handling and I/O, are now compiled to optimized machine code." }
{ "A non-optimizing, just-in-time compiler replaces the interpreter with no loss in functionality or introspective ability." }
{ "The non-optimizing compiler compiles quotations the first time they are called, generating a series of stack pushes and subroutine calls." }
{ "The optimizing compiler now performs some more representation inference. Alien pointers are unboxed where possible. This improves performance of the " { $vocab-link "ogg.player" } " Ogg Theora video player considerably." }
{ "The queue of sleeping tasks is now a sorted priority queue. This improves performance considerably when there is a large number of sleeping threads (Doug Coleman)" }
{ "Improved hash code algorithm for sequences" }
{ "New, efficient implementations of " { $link bit? } " and " { $link log2 } " runs in constant time for large bignums" }
{ "New " { $link big-random } " word for generating large random numbers quickly" }
{ "Improved profiler no longer has to be explicitly enabled and disabled with a recompile step; instead, the " { $link profile } " word can be used at any time, and it dynamically patches all words in the code heap to increment call counts. There is no overhead when the profiler is not in use." }
}
{ $subheading "IO" }
{ $list
{ "The " { $link "stream-protocol" } " has changed" }
{ "New " { $link os-envs } " word to get the current set of environment variables" }
{ "Redesigned " { $vocab-link "io.launcher" } " supports passing environment variables to the child process" }
{ { $link <process-stream> } " implemented on Windows (Doug Coleman)" }
{ "More robust Windows CE native I/O" }
{ "Updated " { $vocab-link "io.mmap" } " for new module system, now supports Windows CE (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "io.sniffer" } " - packet sniffer library (Doug Coleman, Elie Chaftari)" }
{ { $vocab-link "io.server" } " - improved logging support, logs to a file by default" }
{ { $vocab-link "io.files" } " - several new file system manipulation words added" }
{ { $vocab-link "tar" } " - tar file extraction in pure Factor (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "unix.linux" } ", " { $vocab-link "raptor" } " - ``Raptor Linux'', a set of alien bindings to low-level Linux features, such as network interface configuration, file system mounting/unmounting, etc, together with experimental boot scripts intended to entirely replace " { $snippet "/sbin/init" } ", " { $vocab-link "/etc/inittab" } " and " { $snippet "/etc/init.d/" } "." }
}
{ $subheading "Tools" }
{ $list
{ "Graphical deploy tool added - see " { $link "ui.tools.deploy" } }
{ "The deploy tool now supports Windows" }
{ { $vocab-link "network-clipboard" } " - clipboard synchronization with a simple TCP/IP protocol" }
}
{ $subheading "UI" }
{ $list
{ { $vocab-link "cairo" } " - updated for new module system, new features (Sampo Vuori)" }
{ { $vocab-link "springies" } " - physics simulation UI demo (Eduardo Cavazos)" }
{ { $vocab-link "ui.gadgets.buttons" } " - added check box and radio button gadgets" }
{ "Double- and triple-click-drag now supported in the editor gadget to select words or lines at a time" }
{ "Windows can be closed on request now using " { $link close-window } }
{ "New icons (Elie Chaftari)" }
}
{ $subheading "Other" }
{ $list
{ "The " { $snippet "queues" } " vocabulary has been removed because its functionality is a subset of " { $vocab-link "dlists" } }
{ "The " { $vocab-link "http.server.responder.cgi" } " vocabulary implements CGI support for the Factor HTTP server." }
{ "The optimizing compiler no longer depends on the number tower and it is possible to bootstrap a minimal image by just passing " { $snippet "-include=compiler" } " to stage 2 bootstrap." }
{ { $vocab-link "benchmarks.knucleotide" } " - new benchmark (Eric Mertens)" }
{ { $vocab-link "channels" } " - concurrent message passing over message channels" }
{ { $vocab-link "destructors" } " - deterministic scope-based resource deallocation (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "dlists" } " - various updates (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "editors.notepadpp" } " - Notepad++ integration (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "heaps" } " - updated for new module system and cleaned up (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "peg" } " - Parser Expression Grammars, a new appoach to parser construction, similar to parser combinators (Chris Double)" }
{ { $vocab-link "regexp" } " - revived from " { $snippet "unmaintained/" } " and completely redesigned (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "tuple.lib" } " - some utility words for working with tuples (Doug Coleman)" }
}

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USING: help help.markup help.syntax help.topics USING: help help.markup help.syntax help.topics
namespaces words sequences classes assocs vocabs kernel namespaces words sequences classes assocs vocabs kernel
arrays prettyprint.backend kernel.private io tools.browser arrays prettyprint.backend kernel.private io tools.browser
generic ; generic math tools.profiler system ui ;
IN: help.handbook IN: help.handbook
ARTICLE: "conventions" "Conventions" ARTICLE: "conventions" "Conventions"
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USING: io.files io.sockets float-arrays inference ; USING: io.files io.sockets float-arrays inference ;
ARTICLE: "changes" "Changes in the latest release" ARTICLE: "changes" "Changes in the latest release"
{ $heading "Factor 0.91" }
{ $subheading "Performance" }
{ $list
{ "Continuations are now supported by the static stack effect system. This means that the " { $link infer } " word and the optimizing compiler now both support code which uses continuations." }
{ "Many words which previously ran in the interpreter, such as error handling and I/O, are now compiled to optimized machine code." }
{ "A non-optimizing, just-in-time compiler replaces the interpreter with no loss in functionality or introspective ability." }
{ "The non-optimizing compiler compiles quotations the first time they are called, generating a series of stack pushes and subroutine calls. It offers a 33%-50% performance increase over the interpreter." }
{ "The optimizing compiler now performs some more representation inference. Alien pointers are unboxed where possible. This improves performance of the " { $vocab-link "ogg.player" } " Ogg Theora video player." }
{ "The queue of sleeping tasks is now a sorted priority queue. This reduces overhead for workloads involving large numbers of sleeping threads (Doug Coleman)" }
{ "Improved hash code algorithm for sequences" }
{ "New, efficient implementations of " { $link bit? } " and " { $link log2 } " runs in constant time for large bignums" }
{ "New " { $link big-random } " word for generating large random numbers quickly" }
{ "Improved profiler no longer has to be explicitly enabled and disabled with a full recompile; instead, the " { $link profile } " word can be used at any time, and it dynamically patches words to increment call counts. There is no overhead when the profiler is not in use." }
}
{ $subheading "IO" }
{ $list
{ "More robust Windows CE native I/O" }
{ "New " { $link os-envs } " word to get the current set of environment variables" }
{ "Redesigned " { $vocab-link "io.launcher" } " supports passing environment variables to the child process" }
{ { $link <process-stream> } " implemented on Windows (Doug Coleman)" }
{ "Updated " { $vocab-link "io.mmap" } " for new module system, now supports Windows CE (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "io.sniffer" } " - packet sniffer library (Doug Coleman, Elie Chaftari)" }
{ { $vocab-link "io.server" } " - improved logging support, logs to a file by default" }
{ { $vocab-link "io.files" } " - several new file system manipulation words added" }
{ { $vocab-link "tar" } " - tar file extraction in pure Factor (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "unix.linux" } ", " { $vocab-link "raptor" } " - ``Raptor Linux'', a set of alien bindings to low-level Linux features, such as network interface configuration, file system mounting/unmounting, etc, together with experimental boot scripts intended to entirely replace " { $snippet "/sbin/init" } ", " { $vocab-link "/etc/inittab" } " and " { $snippet "/etc/init.d/" } " (Eduardo Cavazos)." }
}
{ $subheading "Tools" }
{ $list
{ "Graphical deploy tool added - see " { $link "ui.tools.deploy" } }
{ "The deploy tool now supports Windows" }
{ { $vocab-link "network-clipboard" } " - clipboard synchronization with a simple TCP/IP protocol" }
}
{ $subheading "UI" }
{ $list
{ { $vocab-link "cairo" } " - updated for new module system, new features (Sampo Vuori)" }
{ { $vocab-link "springies" } " - physics simulation UI demo (Eduardo Cavazos)" }
{ { $vocab-link "ui.gadgets.buttons" } " - added check box and radio button gadgets" }
{ "Double- and triple-click-drag now supported in the editor gadget to select words or lines at a time" }
{ "Windows can be closed on request now using " { $link close-window } }
{ "New icons (Elie Chaftari)" }
}
{ $subheading "Other" }
{ $list
{ "The " { $snippet "queues" } " vocabulary has been removed because its functionality is a subset of " { $vocab-link "dlists" } }
{ "The " { $vocab-link "webapps.cgi" } " vocabulary implements CGI support for the Factor HTTP server." }
{ "The optimizing compiler no longer depends on the number tower and it is possible to bootstrap a minimal image by just passing " { $snippet "-include=compiler" } " to stage 2 bootstrap." }
{ { $vocab-link "benchmark.knucleotide" } " - new benchmark (Eric Mertens)" }
{ { $vocab-link "channels" } " - concurrent message passing over message channels" }
{ { $vocab-link "destructors" } " - deterministic scope-based resource deallocation (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "dlists" } " - various updates (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "editors.notepadpp" } " - Notepad++ integration (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "heaps" } " - updated for new module system and cleaned up (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "peg" } " - Parser Expression Grammars, a new appoach to parser construction, similar to parser combinators (Chris Double)" }
{ { $vocab-link "regexp" } " - revived from " { $snippet "unmaintained/" } " and completely redesigned (Doug Coleman)" }
{ { $vocab-link "tuple.lib" } " - some utility words for working with tuples (Doug Coleman)" }
}
{ $heading "Factor 0.90" } { $heading "Factor 0.90" }
{ $subheading "Core" } { $subheading "Core" }
{ $list { $list
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"Most existing libraries were improved when ported to the new module system; the most notable changes include:" "Most existing libraries were improved when ported to the new module system; the most notable changes include:"
{ $list { $list
{ { $vocab-link "asn1" } ": ASN1 parser and writer. (Elie Chaftari)" } { { $vocab-link "asn1" } ": ASN1 parser and writer. (Elie Chaftari)" }
{ { $vocab-link "benchmarks" } ": new set of benchmarks." } { { $vocab-link "benchmark" } ": new set of benchmarks." }
{ { $vocab-link "cfdg" } ": Context-free design grammar implementation; see " { $url "http://www.chriscoyne.com/cfdg/" } ". (Eduardo Cavazos)" } { { $vocab-link "cfdg" } ": Context-free design grammar implementation; see " { $url "http://www.chriscoyne.com/cfdg/" } ". (Eduardo Cavazos)" }
{ { $vocab-link "cryptlib" } ": Cryptlib library binding. (Elie Chaftari)" } { { $vocab-link "cryptlib" } ": Cryptlib library binding. (Elie Chaftari)" }
{ { $vocab-link "cryptlib.streams" } ": Streams which perform SSL encryption and decryption. (Matthew Willis)" } { { $vocab-link "cryptlib.streams" } ": Streams which perform SSL encryption and decryption. (Matthew Willis)" }