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

-- vyzo