Lambda the Ultimate

LLVM 1.4 is now out in the wild. This release adds a large number of new features including JIT support for PowerPC machines, improved debugging information with the C/C++ front-end, better optimizers, new archive support, and a new compiler driver.

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-Chris

Tim Bray,

So on Tuesday we held a summit here at Sun, with a few of our internal Java leaders, and on the dynamic-languages side, Larry Wall and Dan Sugalski (Perl and Parrot), Guido van Rossum, Samuele Pedroni and Sean McGrath (Python), and James Strachan (Groovy). It was an educational day for us; herewith some take-aways and pictures.

Everyone and his sister is linking to this blog post, so you might have seen it already.

For a touch of flavor, here’s just part of the list that of things to discuss that Larry had prepared: anonymous code/closures, lvalue methods/functions, variadic call/return, constant/rw/copy/ref/lazy parameters, wrappers/AOP, eval, exception handling/undef/nil/unthrown exceptions, exception handlers with lexical access, temporization/hypotheticality, efficient regex with complete semantics, access to dynamic context/want/caller, redispatch of methods (fallback upon "fail"), efficient switch statement?, versioned modules/classes, virtual classnames, continuations.

Feel free to express your opinion regarding this list, and other relevant factors.