Factor Language Blog

I’m tying up some loose ends in the register allocator, and updating the AMD64 compiler backend. Factor 0.82 should be out in a few days. Apart from the compiler overhaul, this release only brings a few minor improvements and bug fixes.

My plans for 0.83 include:

• Major improvements to the UI
• Compiler internals documentation
• Possibly the new array quotation interpreter, and phasing out cons cells
• Getting Factor running on Mac Intel

Going back and forth between UI and compiler work for each release seems to be the pattern for the last few releases. In 0.84, I will probably once again work on the compiler, and implement complex float intrinsics using SSE2 and AltiVec, as well as some new dataflow and template optimizations I’ve been planning out.