Welcome to ProjectFortress
Welcome, we are mostly done moving our old Trac-basedwebsite to Java.net. We still need to move the old Wiki andblog contents over. If you have questions about your mailinglist subscription, joining the project, or accessing the Mercurial repository,check here.
Plans
We think it would be good to adopt Maven, and perhaps Hudson or some similar tools.This will require some directory reorganization to bring things into their expected shape.If anyone in our community has experience with these tools, we'd love to hear from you.If there are other standard-ish tools that might be helpful, we'd like to hear about those, too.
Compiler news
- Recent work in the bytecode optimizer improved compiled-code performance on the test benchmark to about 4x Java timings (your mileage will vary).
- The compiler generates Fortress-specific run-time type information. Its first client will be dispatch of overloaded functions that include generics.
- Library work is proceeding; the static checker is finding bugs in the library, and vice-versa.
- Covariant types are on the radar; they are necessary for the "right" implementation of the numeric hierarchy.
