http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337A bipolar guy in a pressure-cooker industryen-ushttp://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3490726Yes, I'm still here <img src='http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/images/smileys/wink.gif' border=0><BR> <BR> Thanks all for the kind words and support. Every little bit helps.http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3488419My clock reads 1:00 AM exactly. So does my cell phone, which I've obsessively checked every 30 seconds for as long as I've been awake.<BR> <BR> At least, I think that's what I've been doing; my short term memory is so butchered I can barely remember what I...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3472924<b>Epoch Release 7 is Now Available</b><BR> The seventh major snapshot of the Epoch programming language is now available for <a href="http://epoch-language.googlecode.com/files/Epoch%20Release%207.rar">download</a> from <a href="http://epoch-language.goog...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3472317If you've been desperately F5'ing my journal for the last few days, you'll have noticed that every evening or so I manage to scratch off yet another item or three from the Evil To-Do List.<BR> <BR> If you've noticed <i>that</i>, chances are you've also not...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3470217So, guess what I'm going to talk about today!<BR> <BR> Are you bored of this stuff yet?<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <ul><li>Integrate new features with the assembler and bytecode systems</li><BR> <li><strike>Fix some bugs in nested response map support</strike></li...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3469390Gather 'round, kiddies! It's time for our daily task list update! Yayy!<BR> <BR> <ul><li>Integrate new features with the assembler and bytecode systems</li><BR> <li><strike>Pop the parser stack correctly to improve error responses</strike></li><BR> <li>Fix...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3468826Development &#111;n R7 today has been a mixed bag. At times it feels like I make &#111;ne step forward and three steps back. The infix operator logic needed a complete rewrite, which has made it (and some peripherally related areas) much more robust - but ...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3467965I've officially opened up the Google Code site for Epoch, at <a href="http://code.google.com/p/epoch-language/">http://code.google.com/p/epoch-language/</a> (alternatively reachable at <a href="http://epoch-language.googlecode.com/">http://epoch-language.g...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3467408More headway &#111;n Release 7 today. As you can see in the previous post, a lot of items are getting checked off. In fact, it's worth taking a look at the remaining items in a fresh list. So here it is:<BR> <BR> <ul><li>Integrate new features with the ass...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3466305After working &#111;n tuning up the inter-thread message passing system, I kind of got &#111;nto an optimization kick, and started exploring other options for gaining better performance in the Epoch VM.<BR> <BR> The biggest change is in the way lexical sco...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3465580So far the weekend has been pretty productive &#111;n the Epoch front; as I mentioned in the last entry I've been working &#111;n replacing the memory management in the message passing code, to avoid expensive locks during new/delete operations.<BR> <BR> I...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3464643I can officially cross off unary operators, parenthetical expressions, and the <tt>buffer</tt> datatype.<BR> <BR> I decided to make buffer purely heap-allocated, and use a garbage collector to reclaim unused buffers, similar to how I plan to handle strings...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3463447Had a good run this evening working &#111;n Epoch Release 7; the main bits I've added are as follows:<BR> <BR> <ul><li><tt>map()</tt> function for applying a unary function to a series (list) of elements</li><BR> <li><tt>reduce()</tt> function for applying...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3462504Put in some more time &#111;n Epoch R7 this weekend; so far the results are slow but promising. Lots of tiny little niceties are working correctly now, mostly to do with infix operators.<BR> <BR> I've been pretty lax with keeping track of the changes and u...http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&reply_id=3460703I've spent the few rare free moments I have working &#111;n Epoch lately; there's a healthy set of things getting checked off the R7 work list (see <a href="http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/mod/journal/journal.asp?jn=345337&cmonth=4&cyear=2009&cday=...