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- Completely remove the nexp = nexp syntax in favour of nexp ==
nexp. All our existing specs have already switched over. As part of
this fix every test that used the old syntax, and update the
generated aarch64 specs
- Remove the `type when constraint` syntax. It just makes changing the
parser in any way really awkward.
- Change the syntax for declaring new types with multiple type
parameters from:
type foo('a : Type) ('n : Int), constraint = ...
to
type foo('a: Type, 'n: Int), constraint = ...
This makes type declarations mimic function declarations, and makes
the syntax for declaring types match the syntax for using types, as
foo is used as foo(type, nexp). None of our specifications use types
with multiple type parameters so this change doesn't actually break
anything, other than some tests. The brackets around the type
parameters are now mandatory.
- Experiment with splitting Type/Order type parameters from Int type
parameters in the parser.
Currently in a type bar(x, y, z) all of x, y, and z could be either
numeric expressions, orders, or types. This means that in the parser
we are severely restricted in what we can parse in numeric
expressions because everything has to be parseable as a type (atyp)
- it also means we can't introduce boolean type
variables/expressions or other minisail features (like removing
ticks from type variables!) because we are heavily constrained by
what we can parse unambigiously due to how these different type
parameters can be mixed and interleaved.
There is now experimental syntax: vector::<'o, 'a>('n) <-->
vector('n, 'o, 'a) which splits the type argument list into two
between Type/Order-polymorphic arguments and Int-polymorphic
arguments. The exact choice of delimiters isn't set in stone - ::<
and > match generics in Rust. The obvious choices of < and > / [ and
] are ambigious in various ways.
Using this syntax right now triggers a warning.
- Fix undefined behaviour in C compilation when concatenating a
0-length vector with a 64-length vector.
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optimizations.
Move the utility functions for graph generation and pretty printing of
intermediate representation instructions into a separate file,
bytecode_util.ml, by analogy with ast_util.ml.
Add an optimization pass that searches for specific patterns of struct
updates and removes uncessary copying of the structs involved. With
this optimisation pass the time taken for u-boot to run approx
57,000,000 instructions goes down from about 11-12 minutes to 8
minutes (about 120,000 IPS).
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