Ajla Programming Language

=== RELEASE 0.1.2 === Fix a bug that the tag bit was not checked on the second argument of len_at_least and len_greater_than - this resulted in incorrect result if the value was a box or a thunk. Optimization: don't check index against list length if it can be proved that the index is smaller (such as "for i := 0 to len(l) do ...").

Before compiling Ajla, install the packages libgmp-dev and libffi-dev. If libgmp-dev is not installed, Ajla will use slow built-in version. If libffi-dev is not installed, the possibility to call C functions from Ajla will be disabled. You can compile and install Ajla with ./configure && make && make install It is recommended to use gcc. clang works, but the compilation is very slow, it may take an hour or more to compile the files ipret.c and ipretc.c. When running ajla programs, it is recommended to set cpu governor to 'performance'. Ajla starts and stops threads rapidly and the 'ondemand' governor underclocks the cores, resulting in slower performance. Ajla arguments: --compile - compile the program without running it --debug - enable all debugging --debug=magic - put a magic value at the start every memory block --debug=redzone - put a redzone value at the end of every memory block --debug=fill - fill the allocated and free blocks with a byte pattern --debug=leak - test for memory leaks --debug=memory - enable "magic, redzone, fill, leak" --debug=mutex-errorcheck- set pthread attribute PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK --debug=mutex - check correct usage of mutexes (also enables mutex-errorcheck) --debug=cond - check correct usage of condition variables --debng=thread - check correct usage of threads --debug=tls - check correct usage of thread-local storage --debug=handles - check correct usage of handles --debug=objects - enable "mutex, cond, thread, tls, handles" --profile - enable all profiling --profile=function - display functions that took most time --profile=escapes - display files and lines where escape from compiled code to the interpreter happend most often --profile=memory - display files and lines where memory allocation happened --ptrcomp - use 4-byte pointers and 4-byte integers by default - heap memory is limited to 32GiB --strict-calls - disable auto-parallelization --system-malloc - use system malloc instead of ajla malloc --thread-tick - spawn a thread that increases the tick variable instead of using signals --threads=n - the number of worker threads, the default is the number of threads on the system --tick=n - tick time in microseconds, the default is 10000 vim: textwidth=80 ------------------------------------ === RELEASE 0.1.0 === Initial release