... Hey Mike, Thanks for the bug report. That looks like the bug with the garbage collector I've been working on. The gc kicks in after a certain number ...
Beta Release 2002 05 20 ======================= - fixed gc bug with literal strings - literal strings now stored in Splay tree for speed - moved to stack...
What, no optimizing compiler for Io yet :) just kidding. You're right, it's a *lot* faster! [~/Io-2002-05-20] time io.exe ../MikeLoops.io 1 10000001 real...
I know you're busy and I keep e-mailing you but I just did a little test: I was trying to keep an index of pointers to block variables, but that got messy....
... Unfortunately, there's a parsing error with operators so only the first x ++ is getting executed above. I'm putting a fix into the new release. Steve...
... Hey Mike, I think I see what you're doing. Your execute() is the equivalent of Io's IoMessage_perform() and your pcode structure is the equivalent of Io's...
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Beta Release 2002 05 26 ======================= - fixed Map object - fixed operator terminating on new line - removed the "_"s from the primitive methods -...
Beta Release 2002 05 29 ======================= - added "make test" test script and got more tests working - fixed bug with scope of break - added Nil print,...
Here are some timings of tests from: "The Great Computer Language Shootout" http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/ run on my 450Mhz G4. (Python 2.0, Lua 4.0, Io...
Beta Release 2002 07 03 ======================= - multi-state safe (no mutable globals) - moved most defined functions to inlined(now not entirely ANSI C) -...
Beta Release 2002 08 11 ======================= - added concurrency via Actors that use coroutines Here's the description from the docs: Concurrency Io uses...
Is this the appropriate place for bug reports, etc? I'm running Debian Testing/sarge on an iBook2. ... (zbir@gibbon ~) $ io Io>words = List clone <IoList...
... Hi Zac, Thanks for the bug report. I was able to replicate the seg fault on OSX but there's definitely a sort bug. I've fixed that and I'm putting out a ...
... Steve could you explain how this snippet of Io works? I'm guessing it evalutates like ((_message code) print) but I don't know what _message object or code...
Hi Steven, ... Sure, _message is an as yet undocumented feature. When a block is activated it creates a locals object and puts a few default slots in it. They...
... am ... appreciate ... so ... other ... direct ... but ... to ... calls ... the C ... From what I've seen with Stackless Python - it's exactly the opposite...
... Yes, you're right. I didn't understand the common usage of the term at the time. I've removed "stackless" from the description of Io. The justification of...
From: "Steve Dekorte" <steve@...> ... Yeah, I know that you can affect the stack size with ulimit. I think you can set the stack size of a thread when...
... To jump into another peripheral thread: Someone told me that underneath the veneer of Type/Class structure, Python is at heart, a prototype language. Given...
