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@hvacengi hvacengi released this 23 Dec 08:54
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This release was primarily focused on speedups and smoothness
of execution. We welcomed a new developer (github username @tsholmes)
who contributed a lot of bottleneck analysis and code speedups. The
goal was to reduce the burden kOS causes to the physics rate of the
game, and consequently also allow tech tree scaled performance by era
for the kOS computer parts themselves (slow at first, faster later).

BREAKING CHANGES:

  • If you use the compiled script feature YOU MUST RECOMPILE ALL KSM FILES,
    USING KSM FILES COMPILED IN A PREVIOUS VERSION WILL RESULT IN AN ERROR.
  • Files now have an implied local scope, causing the following change:
    • Previously: If you declared a variable as local at the
      outermost scope of a program file (outside any curly braces),
      then it had the same effect as global, creating a variable
      that you could see from anywhere outside that program file.
    • New behavior: Now that there is an outermost scope for a file,
      local actually means something in that scope. To get the
      old behavior you would need to explicitly call the variable
      global.
      (The variables magically created via the lazyglobal system will still
      be global just like they were before.)
  • Parameters to programs now have local scope to that program file.
    (Previously they were sort of global and visible everywhere, which
    they shouldn't have been. If you relied on this behavior your
    script might break.) This is of particular note when working with locks and
    triggers as the local parameters may conflict with the global scope of these
    features.
  • Functions declared at the outermost scope of a program will now
    keep proper closure, making them see variables local to that program
    file even when called from outside that file. This may hide a global
    variable with a more local variable of the same name, when previously
    the global variable would have been accessible from the function.
    (You probably weren't relying on this buggy behavior before, but
    if you were, this fix will break your script.)

NEW FEATURES:

  • File scope: Previously, kerboscript did not wrap program files
    in their own local scope. (Declaring a local in a file had
    the same effect as declaring a global there). Now each program file
    has its own scope (and also the parameters passed to a program file
    are local to that file scope).
    • NOTE: For backward compatibility, there is one important exception
      to the file scope - functions declared at the outermost level by
      default can be globally seen in other programs. You CAN get functions
      that are local to the file's scope, but you have to explicitly include
      the local keyword in the function declaration to make that happen.
      pull request

OPTIMIZATIONS:

  • The regular expression syntax used to compile programs has been heavily
    modified to speed up file parsing using start string anchors and eliminating
    string copying.
    pull request
    pull request
  • Suffix lists are no longer initialized on every call, saving both execution
    time and memory.
    pull request
  • Various string operation optimizations for internal string lookups.
    pull request
    pull request
  • The cpu stack was re-written to use two stacks instead of using a single stack
    with hidden offsets.
    pull request
  • Cache type lookup data for suffix delegates.
    pull request
  • Begin encoding identifiers directly in opcodes instead of pushing a string
    identifier prior to executing the opcode.
    pull request
    pull request
  • General optimizations for the C# source code, including for unit tests.
    pull request
    pull request
    pull request
    pull request

BUG FIXES:

  • Functions at the outermost file scope level now have closures that can
    see the file scope variables properly. Previously they could not (but
    this did not matter since there was no file scope to matter. This bug
    got exposed by the other file scope changes.)
    pull request
  • Fixed inability to use flight controls on a craft with local control when
    RemoteTech is installed, both with and without a probe core installed.
    pull request
  • Fixed a crash to desktop when attempting to parse very large numbers.
    pull requst
  • Fixed syntax errors in the exenode tutorial documents. The code as displayed
    has been tested to work correctly as of this release.
    pull request
  • Parsing numbers on host computers that normally expect the , character to
    be used as a decimal symbol will no longer be blocked. kOS now forces the use
    of CultureInvariant when parsing numbers, so all locales will be required
    to use the . character for decimals.
    pull request
  • Action Groups Extended support should once again work as the the method used
    to detect that the mod is installed has been repaired.
    pull request
  • Attempting to delete a path that does not exist no longer throws a null
    reference error.
    pull request
  • Documentation was added for part:hasmodule suffix.
    pull request
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