* [Caml-list] [ANN] Barista: 2.0-alpha release
@ 2011-07-15 4:54 forum
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Dear list,
This post announces the 2.0-alpha release of the Barista project, whose goal is to provide
a library for Java class file construction and a Java [dis]assembler, released under the LGPLv3.
Home page: http://barista.x9c.fr
Main changes since 1.4:
- update for Objective Caml 3.12.1
- update for Camomile 0.8.3
- new build system (ocamlbuild-based)
- reorganization of 'src' directory
- support for Unicode in 'src/utf8' directory
- major refactoring of code (with impact on API)
- executable names changed to 'barista.byte' and 'barista.native'
- peephole optimizations
- optimization of stack frames
- optimization of exception tables
- optimization of 'transitive' jumps
- new '-optimize' command-line switch to enable peephole/jump optimizations
- support for 'invodynamic' (JSR 292)
- preliminary support for type annotations (JSR 308)
- preliminary support for Java modules (project Jigsaw / JSR 294)
- support for 'package-info' and 'module-info' class files
- support for Java serialization protocol (version 2 only)
- new implementation for i/o operations
- improved manual
- Java API has been removed
Xavier Clerc
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