* Luau Recap: February 2022
* Rebuild pages
* Fixed Markdown linter warnings, converted tabs to spaces and added a note on 'select' optimization
* Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Alexander McCord <11488393+alexmccord@users.noreply.github.com>
* Added information about new lint
* Update docs/_posts/2022-02-28-luau-recap-february-2022.md
Co-authored-by: Alexander McCord <11488393+alexmccord@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Alexander McCord <11488393+alexmccord@users.noreply.github.com>
Prototypes booleans and relational operators.
As part of this I removed `FFI/Data/Bool.agda`, because it was getting in the way - we already use `Agda.Builtin.Bool` instead for other cases.
Changed the GHA workflows to:
- Not run `build` and `release` workflows for PRs that only affect `prototyping/`
- Run `prototyping` workflow when PRs affect `Analysis/**`, `Ast/**`, or the `luau-ast` source files
We don't emit type annotations right now for `AstLocal`s in the JSON encoder. This makes it really hard to surface annotations in the Agda implementation. This PR changes it to emit location and type annotations, if present.
Adds a `luau-ast` CLI that dumps Luau source to JSON. @asajeffrey and I are planning to use this functionality to construct an Agda model of the Luau type system/operational semantics, to allow formally proving properties of Luau's type systems.
- Improve refinement support for unions, in particular it's now possible to implement tagged unions as a union of tables where individual branches use a string literal type for one of the fields.
- Fix `string.split` type information
- Optimize `select(_, ...)` to run in constant time (~2.7x faster on VariadicSelect benchmark)
- Improve debug line information for multi-line assignments
- Improve compilation of table literals when table keys are constant expressions/variables
- Use forward GC barrier for `setmetatable` which slightly accelerates GC progress
- TableOperations lint now includes a warning for table.create(N, {}) (which is likely a mistake since the table is shared by all entries)
- Type checker now type checks #v when v is a union
- Parser now rejects sources that consists of a single unfinished long comment
- Work around significant MSVC 2022 performance regression, bringing it more or less in line with MSVC 2019
- Compiler now predicts array size for newly allocated tables when the table is filled in a short loop
- Small improvements in compilation throughput (~2% faster)
- Implement paged sweeper for GC which improves sweep throughput 2-3x and reduces memory consumption by 8 bytes per object (once it is stabilized we will see additional 8 bytes per object of savings)
- Improve Repl Tab completion
- Repl now supports -i (interactive mode to run code in context of a script's environment) and -On (to control optimization flags)
