• Ary Borenszweig (23/23) Jul 21 2009 Hi all,
• Ary Borenszweig (12/16) Jul 21 2009 Umm... Actually, it contained some errors. So I fixed them and also I
• Jacob Carlborg (3/19) Jul 23 2009 As always, very much appreciated.
• Chris (7/11) Aug 13 2009 Thank you for your invaluable work.
• Vincenzo Ampolo (3/5) Aug 15 2009 download Eclipse, install Descent and just copy the eclipse directory to...

Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

Hi all,

I've just uploaded a new version of Descent that has several performance 
and memory usage improvements. That's the main feature of this small 
release.

Also the lexer, parser and semantic analysis now have version 1.043, and 
the lexer and parser 2.030 (no final switch nor case range). But the 
semantic analysis for D2 is still not finished. If anyone would like to 
help, it'll be appreciated. It's just about porting code from C++ to 
Java. Maybe I'll finish that in two or three months, but if others help 
it could be finished earlier.

Other things in this small version are:
  * Aliases show ok in the UI (sometimes you'd hover over a parameter of 
type char[] and you'd see string, that doesn't happen anymore).
  * Inside variadic functions, _arguments and _argptr are suggested as 
completion proposals.
  * xfBuild was added to the list of external tools that allows you to 
jump to the line of an error. Also I corrected a bug that wouldn't allow 
you to jump if the path was absolute but was in a project and not in an 
include path.
  * length is proposed as a completion for tuple types.
  * Hovering over auto shows that type that's being deduced (only if 
it's not primitive).

http://dsource.org/projects/descent/

Ary Borenszweig <ary esperanto.org.ar> writes:

Ary Borenszweig escribió:
 Hi all,
 
 I've just uploaded a new version of Descent that has several performance 
 and memory usage improvements.

Umm... Actually, it contained some errors. So I fixed them and also I 

the given example. That's because I wasn't able to apply an optimization 
to modules that contain static ifs in the top level of a module. But 
thinking it a little I realized I could apply that optimization if I 
changed something somewhere else, so I finally made it work. Now it 
works very fast! You'll notice this if you are working with libraries 
that contain modules with lots of definitions (normally binding modules) 
with at least one top level static if (the WinApi bindings project is 
such project). This is also a performance improvement. :)

So now there's version 0.5.6.20090722.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 7/22/09 1:07 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
 Ary Borenszweig escribió:
 Hi all,

 I've just uploaded a new version of Descent that has several
 performance and memory usage improvements.

 Umm... Actually, it contained some errors. So I fixed them and also I

 the given example. That's because I wasn't able to apply an optimization
 to modules that contain static ifs in the top level of a module. But
 thinking it a little I realized I could apply that optimization if I
 changed something somewhere else, so I finally made it work. Now it
 works very fast! You'll notice this if you are working with libraries
 that contain modules with lots of definitions (normally binding modules)
 with at least one top level static if (the WinApi bindings project is
 such project). This is also a performance improvement. :)

 So now there's version 0.5.6.20090722.

As always, very much appreciated.

/Jacob Carlborg

"Chris" <invalid invalid.invalid> writes:

"Ary Borenszweig"
 Hi all,

 I've just uploaded a new version of Descent that has several performance 
 and memory usage improvements. That's the main feature of this small 
 release. [...]

Thank you for your invaluable work.
As a newbie, I would appriciate if a direct link was available for
downloading Descent to use in offline installation (have a PC and some
virtual machine without internet access, and need to occasionally 
reinstall).
(I googled and examined .jar file, unsuccesful...) 

Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo gmail.com> writes:

Chris wrote:

 As a newbie, I would appriciate if a direct link was available for
 downloading Descent to use in offline installation

download Eclipse, install Descent and just copy the eclipse directory to 
each pc you wanna use it. It's easy, isn't it? :)