nqp-2022.07-bp155.1.28

- update to version 2022.07
  * Presize $!mbc and write at offsets instead of pushing
  * Write each frame directly to the MAST bytecode file...
  * Speed up "sorted_keys" sub

- update to version 2022.03
  * Remove some not-needed trys, or convert to nqp::can + the method call
  * Provide op coerce_ns on MoarVM and JVM
  * Fix all returned native integers getting treated as signed

- Fix build on RHEL7
  RHEL doesn't include perl's core libraries in its perl package, so
  we need to explicitly depend on the modules we need for building.

- update to version 2022.02
  * Introduce a new generalized dispatch mechanism.
    It results in a more uniform architecture for all kinds
    of dispatch, delivering better performance on a range of
    langauge features. For more information see
    https://6guts.wordpress.com/2021/09/29/the-new-moarvm-dispatch-mechanism-is-here/
  * Native unsigned integers are now first class citizens
  * Give NQPParametricRoleHOW a role_typecheck_list method
  * Set NQP HLL on all NQP types
  * Avoid an implicit array stringification in NQP
  * Avoid a slurp/flatten in NQP object creation
  * Avoid lots of string box/unbox in hash key sort
  * Use natives to reduce some allocation hotspots
  * Fix miscompilation of sized integers as loop condition
  * Remove the --rxtrace feature
  * Access register allocator via compiler instance
  * Switch most $*MAST_FRAME access away from dynamics
  * Replace costly $*MAST_FRAME lookup with $frame arg in core op generators
  * Don't error if no typechecking mode set
  * move lookups of op generators out of repeated code
  * Use `my constant` somewhat in QAST compiler
  * Add mapping for ctxnt op
  * Avoid duplicate lookups in NFA merging
  * Fix SpecialArg unintentionally modifying class' MRO
  * Don't die on non-primitive objects in $!named
  * More universal fix for dumping QAST nodes with attached data
  * Implement the -o form of the --output option
  * Fix race when checking for global uniques (#760)

- update to version 2021.08
  * Fix several issues on the JVM

- update to version 2021.07
  * Implement support for moar::hllincludes config variable
  * Fix reproducible build regression
  * Wrap QAST::Regex from qbuildsub in QAST::Stmts

- update to version 2021.06
  * Simplify loop in optimizer's incorporate_inner
  * Micro-optimize the sift_down sub in sorted_keys
  * Remove no longer needed JVM workaround

- update to version 2021.05
  * Use new nqp::time instead of nqp::time_(i|n)
  * Finish getting rid of NQPCursor
  * Remove no longer needed $!slang override in Braid
  * Disallow explicity specifying op write registers
  * No need to stringify the float twice in the sprintf implementation.
  * Hoist the repeated calculation in stringify-to-precision2 to a variable.
  * Accurately calculate pow_n(10.0, $exp) for stringify-to-precision2.
  * Convert scientific and shortest to use pow10 and an int for $exp.

- update to version 2021.03
  * Support some missing Rakudo command line flags
  * Comment out two lines only needed during debugging
  * Eliminate the ops sec_n, asec_n and sech_h, which are no longer used.

- update to version 2021.02
  * Switch spawnprocasync to use a separate arg for the program name
  * Stub some Archetypes methods expected by Rakudo
  * Don't bind an int attribute to 0 directly after construction
  * Improve error message for erroneous <.panic()> syntax
  * Fix sprintf() with *-specified negative width argument
  * Start up REPL if "-" given *and* STDIN is a tty
  * Make HLL::Compiler.execute_stage easier to call from Raku
  * Give NQPClassHOW a submethod_table method for better compatibility
  * Dump a QAST::Block's name, too for easier debugging
  * MoarVM: Allow for explicitly marking the mainline_frame in the bytecode
  * Add a nested compiler's load_dependency_tasks to the outer compiler's
  * Add frames created by a nested compiler to the outer comp unit
  * Allow more interesting constants in NQP
  * Simplify Cursor!cursor_pass
  * Micro optimize !cursor_fail
  * Simplify braid initialization in cursor_init
  * Introduce / use !cursor_pass_quick
  * Make sure cursor_pass_quick also reset bstack
  * Tweaks to regex compiler API
  * Remove reliance in a $*W object in alt NFA gen
  * NQP_HOME env var should override a static NQP home
  * map nqp::setthreadname op to give current thread a name
  * Register a plain HLL::Compiler object under the 'HLL' name
  * Support for typechecking against Raku roles
  * Add a HLL::SysConfig class
  * Add missing debug type name for easier debuggin
  * Make mixins concurrency safe
  * Fix parallel compilation occasionally losing frames
  * Fix "no such attribute" errors on mixin created by concurrent code

- update to version 2020.05
  * Add nextdispatcherfor/takenextdispatcher ops
  * More explicit error when more than one --target is provided (issue #600)
  * Set return type of intifying a list or hash
  * Optimize code trying to count elems of a list or hash
  * Use already calculated value instead of nqp::elems
  * Save a bunch of allocations in MoarVM::StringHeap
  * Split MoarVM::StringHeap into an inlineable add and slow add-internal
  * Simplify some Role accessor methods
  * Remove an unneeded for+push, use list directly
  * Add more str coercion cases
  * Write new strings directly into string heap buf
  * Write bytecode to output file on the fly
  * Write header last instead of first and fixing up
  * Fix sqlite3 running out of memory when importing large profiles
  * Fix profile kind detection
  * Support anon declarator on NQP subs
  * Add QAST::Node::dump_indent_string method to produce indent strings
  * Modify Node dump routines to use new dump_indent_string method
  * Add guide lines to QAST::Block node dumps
  * Remove qlist opcode
  * Some minor optimizations to NQP matching

- update to version 2020.02
  * Fix for https://github.com/perl6/nqp/issues/559
  * Only do assignment if nfa is not in the cache
  * cache_add returns the value, so no assignment needed
  * Completely disable NFA debugging (for now)
  * Don't call non-existent panic method
  * Consistently make the `.` in `<.[x]>` a no-op
  * Recognize `chain` as an assoc

- update to version 2020.01
  * Fix "Decoder may not be used concurrently" errors with concurrent EVAL
  * Give HLL/Actions|Grammar a "raku" method
  * Add NQPAttribute.is_built method
  * Add NQPAttribute.is_bound method
  * Change references of HLL language to 'Raku'
  * Remove HLL dependency
  * Fix various compiler warnings

- update to version 2019.11
  * Map nqp::vmeventsubscribe to configure VM Event Subscription
  * Map new nqp::intify op
  * Provide better compatibility with Perl6 Metamodel
  * Use nqp::const for socket family constants
  * First stab at making num use explicit
  * Type constrain the value passed to (I|N)Val.new
  * $/.Int should actually use integer calculations
  * sprintf fix for the JVM, bartolin++
  * profiler: expose "stolen gen2 roots" in sql output
  * profiler: one line per statement like earlier versions
  * fix profiling gc/deallocations bug swapping thread/seqnum
  * output "stage parse" later (for nested output), also flush stderr every line
  * make sql output smaller with multi-insert statements

- Fix installed perl6 not finding its NQP modules

- update to version 2019.07
  * Make building Perl 6 code reproducible
  * Several improvements to the profiler
  * Explicitly mark out mixin types
  * Add method_names and method_order to NQPConcreteRoleHOW
  * Add given value to printf bad-directive-type error
  * Add uname, freemem, and totalmem ops
  * Protect against self-reference in match dump
  * Fix precedence issues with |, ||, &, && prefixes
  * Always produce integers in captures hash
  * Use a better data structure for Match setup info
  * Bring back the onlyname optimization
  * Use flags/bitmask to cheapen/avoid some work
  * Fix capnames with &
  * Correct construction of capnames in P5Regex
  * Add int to constants to avoid a lot of unboxing
  * Some small optimizations to !cursor_init
  * Change associativity of exponentiation to 'right'
  * Allow #?if stage1/stage2, add confprog loading support via cmdline flag

- update to version 2019.03
  * [moar] Add BINARY_* constants for the new ops
  * Unmap obsolete mastto* ops
  * Add some ints and other micro-opts to NFA code
  * micro-opts to NFA code
  * Add CONTROL_ANY constant
  * Fix loss of some line number annotations
  * Don't use `note` in the cursor role
  * Add a local debug map to QAST::Block
  * Have MoarVM bytecode writer write debug locals
  * Add local debug names for NQP code
  * Fix for dyncomp lexical lookup
  * Show scalar replacement stats on profile overview
  * Expose Replaced Allocations To SQL Profiler

- update to version 2018.12
  * Implement is array_type trait for classes
  * Support "is box_target" trait
  * Map new ops: buffertocu, serializetobuf, writeint, writeuint, writenum,
    readint, readuint, readnum, getcp_s
  * Map MVM_OPERAND_* constants
  * Several improvements to the profiler
  * Replace MAST by writing MoarVM bytecode directly
  * Fix trying to encode synthetics to latin-1
  * Fix get_frame_index not finding frame created by BEGIN time EVAL
  * [moar] Fix nqp::falsey with int32 argument
  * Add :$transitive named re R#2401
  * Allow a fail cursor to be provided in !cursor_init

- update to version 2018.10
  * [moar] Add coercions from int32, int16, int8, uint32, uint16, uint8 to num,
    from (u)ints to str and from uints to ints and vice versa.
  * Add the coerce_us op to QASTCOMpilerMAST for coercions
  * New ops: getsignals, slice, numify, wantdecont, istype_nd ("no decont"),
    hllboxtype_*, 2 new atomic ops, hllbool, hllboolfor, fork, decodelocaltime
  * Compile MoarVM spesh plugin API ops
  * Map new spesh plugin object literal non-match op
  * [moar] Implement unary ! on int32s
  * Several fixes for reproducible builds
  * Fix STDIN error for non-interactive REPL mode
  * Fix stringification of Sub when using --target=ast
  * Remove erroneous decont op in chain compilation
  * Support hllization of Perl 6 hashes -> NQP hashes
  * [Impl] !~~by adding NOT_ACCEPTS method
  * Provide non-decont forms of some object ops
  * Fix Unhandled lexical type error w/ native int's and Rakudo REPL
  * Fix missing annotations in QAST dumps
  * Add callback of nqp::spawnprocasync to catch exception
  * Emit invoke_v instruction for void context calls
  * Remove <?before> token in token term:sym<multi_declarator> (#484)
  * Rename getstrfromname to strfromname (#483)
  * Allow specification of repr with `stub` declarator
  * Don't check var until we actually gonna use it
  * Micro-opt method LANG
  * Don't emit decont of callee if unrequired
  * Improve getattr/bindattr code gen quality
  * allow more type info to be passed from moarvm
  * no need to pre-size an array for one element.
  * also store whether a type holds extra data
  * put the name of the SC in every type's extra info

- update to version 2018.04.1
  * Make build of NQP modules reproducible
  * Profiler Template: Sort by time Instead of Pct
  * Fix bug with iteration of empty character class
  * Profiler Template: Allocations modal close by btn
  * Profiler Template: Sort by time in call graph
  * Clean up some odd naming in QAST regex compiler
  * Only load cclass constants if they are needed
  * Micro-opt in CAPHASH
  * Remove apparently unused helper method
  * Prevent boxing of native str
  * Prevent another unnecessary boxing
  * Optimize cursor_push_cstack a bit
  * Optimize a loop in MATCH
  * Don't emit cstack handling code if unused
  * Use tryfindmethod in reduce_with_match
  * Implement nqp::numify op
- Remove nqp-disable-faulty-test.diff - tests fixed upstream
- Remove nqp-reproducible-build.diff - included in upstream release

- update to version 2018.03
  * Support for profiling multi threaded programs
  * Avoid using variables where we don't need any
  * Fix crashes with native types in conditionals
  * Make certain conditionals with natives 2.1x faster
  * Simplify conditional variant lookup
  * Easyfy matching Block WVals with their QAST::Blocks?
  * improve pod panic msg
  * No need to load ModuleLoader multiple times
  * Make sure the version of jna is 4.0.0
  * Remove trailing whitespace
  * Implement QAST::Var.decl_as
  * Remove now-unused C 3rdparty deps
  * Fix slurpies in `if` ops; jnthn++ for the tip
  * Fix sprintf with type objects
  * update docs with more information
  * rename IO sub "spew" to "spurt"
  * Map new nqp::tryfindmethod op for MoarVM backend
  * Use nqp::tryfindmethod in Cursor!reduce
  * add a new built-in sub: run-command
  * output start time of gc runs to sql
  * html profiler: show times a GC run started
  * Add getppid op (#422)
  * [moar] Add encodeconf and decodeconf ops
  * speed up sql output by about 30%
- Backport reproducible build support to fix rakudo on Tumbleweed
  nqp-reproducible-build.diff can be removed in the next release

- update to version 2018.01
  * Improve handling of flags for '%b' directive
  * Make || alternations respect :ratchet mode
  * Allow per-atom backtracking modifiers to override :ratchet
  * Do not start interactive REPL on non tty input
  * Check for the backend method in the backend before compiler
  * Make Int on rakudo's Match return an Int not a nqp level int.
  * support the new heapsnapshot API
  * Add nqp::getrusage and constants on MoarVM backend
  * Map threadlockcount op on MoarVM backend
  * Suppress warning in /a b+/
  * Map the new nativeinvoke OP
  * Remove support for ornate parenthesis from quoting constructs
  * Improve error message when space with combiners is encountered
  * Remove trailing whitespace
  * Implement --force-stdin-eval-mode command line arg
  * Rename `--force-stdin-eval-mode` command line opt
  * Make NQP's BUILDPLAN more like Perl6's BUILDPLAN
  * Add the new coerce_II op as fromI_I
  * Map the new getarg_i op for reading from the args buffer
  * Remove some @*comp_line_directives accesses (#376)
  * Add support for '+' flag for %b in sprintf
  * Add support for a block no-inline flag
  * Fix wrong coercion in if on moar
  * Fix crash with named captures in P5 regexes
  * Use faster nqp::istype instead of ~~
  * Implement nqp::chainstatic op
  * MoarVM: Allow 'chain' op to use child as callee
  * Use faster nqp::elems instead of + on QAST nodes
  * Add $!cuid to QAST::Block.dump
  * Implement QAST::Node.annotate_self
  * Fix dumping block with null_s cuids
  * Don't die if parent doesn't have dump method
  * Fix blocktype display in Block extra node info
- add nqp-disable-faulty-test.diff for disabling faulty concurrency test

- Remove nqp-fix-ll-exception.diff - included in upstream release
- update to version 2017.08
  * Fix serious security hole - tried to load modules from current working
    directory
  * support hardware_concurrency op from moar and implement for jvm
  * match renamed opcode "cpucores" in moar
  * Fix --ll-exception trying to print a NULL
  * Add nqp::codes to QASTOperationsMAST.nqp
  * Add a &dies-ok to the setting so that it can be shared across tests
  * Add eqatim and indexim ops. Fix a bug when using ignoremark
  * Correct setup of $sharedclass in regex compiler.
  * Map the low level nativecallinvoke op
  * output .sql profiler data if template.html not found
  * Map new atomic ops on MoarVM backend.
  * Add constant mapping atomic integer type.
  * Add nqp::hasuniprop op to QASTOperationsMAST.nqp
  * Add support for %*ENV<NQP_LIB> to MoarVM and JS ModuleLoaders

- update to version 2017.07
  * Add mapping of the op code get_port_sk
  * Rename get_port -> getport
  * Kill of nqp::getcfh.
  * Give NQP a basic file handle class and use it instead of low level ops.
  * Update profile dumper to use new handles.
  * Add a way to get NQP wrapped standard handles.
  * There is no die in NQP; it's nqp::die.
  * Un-map the char-level I/O ops for MoarVM.
  * Add :$all to methods() for Perl 6 compatability
  * [unicode-grant] Update QASTRegexCompilerMAST to use new indexicim and eqaticim ops
  * Start conveying decont context in QAST -> MAST.
  * Do not add condition leading '0' if already present
  * Add .gist method to NQPRoutine
  * Map setbuffersizefh op.
  * add refine_slang to automatically do mixins
  * Un-map deprecated sync proc ops for MoarVM.
  * Map nqp::permit op on MoarVM backend.
  * Remove now-unused MoarVM lexotic of compilation.
  * Factor out part of compile for easier re-use.
  * Attach the match (for file positions etc.) to the QAST properly
  * Fix handling of actions in .refine_slang
  * Map decodertakecharseof op on MoarVM backend.
  * Exclude empty messages from check
- Backport fix for --ll-exception in nqp-fix-ll-exception.diff which was committed
  right after the release.

- update to version 2017.05
  * Some minor optimizations to profiling code
  * separate the $!to concept back out from $!pos
  * Use 0 instead of NULL in the profiler SQL output
  * Rename 'allocators' to 'types' in sql profile
  * Make 0s strings since they're going to get stringified anyway
  * Allow tracking of allocations by routine
  * Fix for RT #130760 - print usage instructions to stderr
    when an invalid command line option is used
  * Some cleanup to the SQL profile output
  * Add primary and foreign key constraints to SQL
  * Avoid numifying '!'
  * Convert substr+eq to eqat
  * Remove deprecated async str I/O ops.

- update to version 2017.04
  * Handle cloning/setting braids between NQPCursor and Perl6 Cursor
  * Prevent warnings on action type objects -- use NO_VALUE sentinal
  * Just use nqp::null raher than a sentinel in define_slang
  * [moar] Use foldcase in QASTRegexCompilier
  * Quick, partial, implementation of `constant`.
  * rebootstrap to get constant declarator
  * start to unify NQPMatch with NQPCursor
  * rebootstrap with temp shim to find lost NQPCursor
  * finish s/NQPCursor/NQPMatch/ tranformation
  * PRECURSOR should not trim $!orig
  * Make errors in QASTOperationsMAST more awesome
  * s/two/2/
  * remove now-useless .CURSOR calls
  * allow !cursor_init to be used by a BUILD
  * Make errors in QASTCompilerMAST more awesome
  * Make sure to push in the sval node before the indexic_s op
  * Merge pull request #350 from samcv/foldcase
  * make false match stringify to ''
  * Match.Int should return, like, an int
  * submatches come from target, not orig
  * Re-work --rxtrace to not trash the cache.
  * Merge branch 'master' into uncurse
  * reduce old match object to a singleton
  * put $!braid near $!shared since they're similar
  * Fix bitrot in moarvm profiler

- update to version 2017.03

- replace patches use of the new configure options
  removed patch: usenqplibdir.diff
- update to version 2016.12
  * Map MoarVM captureinnerlex op.
  * Make sprintf %f, %e, and %g handle negative zero
  * Use heap sort to sort the keys when creating JSON
  * Use latest versions of css/js from CDNs
  * Add a --profile-stage option to profile only one compilation stage.
  * Add SQL as an output option for profiles
  * Add a type declaration in Cursor.MATCH
  * Forbid bare \b and \B in regexes
  * Support calling the handlepayload and handle ops using the nqp:: syntax.
  * Make NFA builder cope with <before>.
  * Supply a warning for using \K and instead suggest <(
  * Add four new pairs of matched delimiters brackets/parens (#330)
  * Fix bug in --target=ast.
  * Escape 's in function names for SQL profile output

- update to version 2016.11
  * $CONTROL_RETURN is 32 on JVM now
  * Remove some unused variables+accessor methods
  * fix spelling
  * Avoid printing out <> when we have dump ast nodes with no flags.
  * Initial support for line directives

- update to version 2016.10
  * Add &is to the setting for better failure diagnostics.
  * Stop using flattenropes op.
  * Map nqp::indexingoptimized op.
  * Update bootstrap.
  * On Moar, use indexingoptimized op.
  * Just want an object when compiling a callee.
  * Remove workaround as indexingoptimized is now avaliable on all backends.

- update to version 2016.09
  * Add code-gen of charclass with ignoremark.
  * Make HLL::Grammar.O take named arguments.
  * Remove HLL::Grammar.O(:inherit).
  * split nonassoc error into list vs non-list forms
  * add $*SUPPOSING dynvar to mark conjectural parsing
  * factor out common boolean annotations to flags
  * use index_s even with ignorecase when scanning for literals
  * charrange without :m should avoid ordat/ordfirst
  * Correct type conversion for default arguments.
  * Support for decoder streams (user level string decoding)
  * Add LEFT/RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS in matching brackets list
  * Properly numify non-ascii tokens in regex/grammars

- update to version 2016.07
  * Support for new REPL supporting code spread over multiple lines
  * Workaround for unsigned attribute access bug.
  * Fix crash in unsinged attributeref code-gen.
  * Avoid a load of hash allocation/copies.
  * Performance improvements for regexes and compilation
  * Use MoarVM's optimized mutli-dispatch path.
  * Fix icicle graph in profiler
  * Support new heap profiler
  * Improved sprintf error reporting
  * Option for a source-name different from the actual source file
  * Fix massive memory leak in EVAL
  * Support BEGIN time EVAL in precompilation
  * Make mappers in MASTOperations cheaper
  * Hook up new bytecode loading ops
  * Improve code-gen by avoiding redundant deconts.
  * return is now a proper control exception making it much faster

- update to version 2016.01
  * entry for \0 was missing in character classes
  * Fixes for multi-line input on the interactive interpreter
  * Add subsecond file time ops stat_time and lstat_time

- update to version 2015.12
  * support for JavaScript backend
  * new I/O related ops
  * ops for multidimensional arrays
  * native calling updates

- update to version 2015.05
  * bring nqp in sync with moarvm
  * use new unicode features

- update to version 2014.08
  * use specialization and jit support from MOAR
  * lazy deserialization
  * many speed improvements
  * removed patch: arm-use-fpic.diff

- update to version 2014.02
- switch to moarvm as backend
- fix libdir calculation
  new patch: usenqplibdir.diff

- update to version 2013.06
  * improved jvm support

- update to version 2013.05
  * start of jvm support