Graal/Truffle Release 0.2

[Wei Zhang]

Hi Andreas,

I noticed that you removed Node.fixupTree().
After migrating to 0.2, I still have to put the tree inconsistency fix up
back in to make couple of my tests work.

Is there a reason that you remove that?
Thanks,

/Wei


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Andreas Woess <andreas.woess at jku.at> wrote:

> While we're at it, let me also remind you about a Truffle API change in
> 0.2:
> If you haven't already migrated, the adoptChild and adoptChildren
> methods have been deprecated (soon to be removed now). You can use
> Eclipse's Inline Method feature to remove all usages at once: Select
> adoptChild in Node, then Refactor - Inline (shortcut: Alt+Shift+I).
> Calls to adoptChild after node creation, i.e. outside the node
> constructor need to use the new 'insert' method instead. Note that
> adoption now happens not until a call target is created.
>
> If you have any problems migrating, feel free to contact me off list.
>
> - andreas
>
> On 26.03.2014 09:55, Bernhard Urban wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > in order to make the life easier for external Truffle implementations, we
> > introduced a release model for Graal and Truffle some weeks ago.  The
> idea
> > is to release a truffle.jar which is in sync with a Graal enabled VM in
> > terms of API.  Yesterday we made version 0.2:
> > http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/builds/
> >
> > JRuby for example is one such external user: They specify the Truffle API
> > as dependency in Maven [1, 2].  In order to get high performance you also
> > need to run it with a Graal enabled JVM [3].
> >
> > Although those images are primarily intended for Truffle development, one
> > can also use them to run normal Java applications with Graal.  However,
> > keep in mind that Graal is still experimental, i.e. don't use it for
> > production mode.
> >
> > Have fun,
> > Bernhard
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/master/pom.xml#L30
> > [2] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/master/core/pom.xml#L204
> > [3] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle#running-with-graal
> >
>
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