Hi all,

There is a brand new Gerbil release, with important work in the compiler:
gxc now supports compilation of static executables, which don't need a local
gerbil installation to work. The optimizer has also been improved to apply all
inline optimizations for local bindings and not just module bindings.

For sources and downloads:
https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil
https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil/releases

Detailed ChangeLog since v0.7:
- compiler: optimizer improvements and static executables
  - optimizer:
    - track types for local bindings
    - lift locally defined opt/case-lambdas
    - attach inline rules to !lambdas for more complex call optimization transforms
    - track prelude imports to optimize custom preludes deeply
  - driver:
    - support static compilation
      - static: option for compiling library modules for static linkage
      - compile-static-exe for statically linked executables
    - default output directory for executables to current dir
  - gxc:
    - -static option for static compilation
    - -gsc-option and -gsc-option2 for adding arbitrary compilation options for gsc
    - print usage when invoked with no files and fix error when invoked with only options
- runtime:
  - find-method now caches struct method resolutions to the rtd vtab
- prelude:
  - extend core.ssxi to include more of the runtime and inline all simple procedures
- stdlib:
  - build static linkage modules for all stdlib
  - std/make supports static library compilation and executables
  - actor/rpc fix latent arity bug caught by the optimizer
- build:
  - [fare] use /bin/sh -eu for build scripts