[m-dev.] Freeze the compiler

[Tyson Dowd]

On 10-Nov-2000, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 09-Nov-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > I think it is time to freeze the compiler for the next release.
> 
> OK, at very least the time for anyone who has features that they want
> to go in the next release to name them -- speak now or forever hold
> your peace ;-).
> 
> My personal pet feature is tag switch optimization for the MLDS back-end.
> This is the only major optimization missing from the MLDS back-end.
> Once that is done, we can do fair performance comparisons between
> the two back-ends.

I'd like to get:

The foreign language diff I just submitted, some rules in the generic
Mmake rules to handle .il, and enough MC++ code in the library to at
least be able to run hello world and eliza on the .NET backend.

Then our release can also be a "tech preview" of the .NET backend.

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