ChaiScript 3.1.0 - Changelog

What's new in ChaiScript 3.1.0:

June 22nd, 2011

· Numeric operations performance has increased approximately 10x.
· Looping operations performance has increased up to 2x.
· Engine start up time has decreased.
· Several parsing bugs related to index operators have been fixed.
· Full support has been added for all C algebraic types: double, long double, float, int, long, char, uint8_t, uint16_t, uint32_t, uint64_t, int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, and int64_t. Enhanced support for capturing of exceptions thrown from ChaiScript in C++.

What's new in ChaiScript 3.0.0:

May 24th, 2011

· Major code reorganization, bugfixes, and updates.
· Automatic conversions between ChaiScript functions and boost::function optinos.
· Function introspection support.
· Improved const support.
· Improved object lifetime during script execution.
· Rewritten documentation.
· 30% more unit tests.
· Improved support for clang, VS2010, and 64-bit environments.
· Command line options have been added to chai eval.

What's new in ChaiScript 2.3.2:

January 19th, 2010

· Added support for 0b1010 style binary numbers
· Fixes to support VS 2010
· Bugfixes for swap and vector initialization

What's new in ChaiScript 2.3.1:

December 12th, 2009

· Fixed compilation in Visual Studio 2008
· Fixed compilation in MinGW

What's new in ChaiScript 2.3:

December 8th, 2009

· Saving and restoring script engine state
· Object type introspection
· Intelligent int types
· 5-10% speedup
· Bugfixes for array lookups, single-line comments, and const return values.

What's new in ChaiScript 2.1:

October 20th, 2009

· Support for octal and hexadecimal numbers.
· Bit shifting operators ''.
· Generic comparison functions 'eq', 'lt', and 'gt'.
· Simplified method aliasing.
· Operator overloading.
· Bugfixes.

What's new in ChaiScript 2.0:

September 23rd, 2009

· New features include automatic thread-safety, native dynamic object support, support for extending existing C++ classes with new methods, try/catch/finally exception handling with guarded catch blocks, support for throwing exceptions, binary module loading, readline support for command line eval, NaN and Infinity support, in-string evaluation, and faster compilation.
· Const support was improved, so C++ const objects and parameters should be fully respected now.
· Runtime execution is approximately 25% faster. std::list support was added. Simple multiline splitting of argument lists was added.

What's new in ChaiScript 1.3:

August 28th, 2009

· Allow floating point numbers without a leading 0.
· Fix dispatch of functions that take boost::shared_ptr parameters.
· Add "use" function for loading ChaiScript files from within ChaiScript files.
· Double performance of tightloops by speeding up operator dispatches.
· Prevent the use of reserved words as function and object names.
· Fix error messages for failed "clone" calls.