13.28.2 Other Changes
- The
sicstus
command line flag -l can now be
specified more than once and will load the files in the order
specified.
- The low-level memory allocator has been re-implemented. The new
implementation should be faster and avoids some poor worst-case
behavior.
- The memory-allocation hook
SP_set_memalloc_hooks()
has been
deprecated and is, by default, no longer available. Please contact
SICStus Support if this is a problem for you.
- Improved performance of
library(timeout)
.
- A performance problem when using the Linux performance monitoring tool
perf
has been fixed.
- Stack shifting and garbage collection policies have been adjusted,
and the
gc_margin
Prolog flag has been given a more dynamic meaning.
- Changes to the testing framework,
library(plunit)
:
- - It is now possible to programmatically obtain the number of
successful, skipped, and failed tests.
- - The number of skipped tests, i.e. where
condition/1
is false,
is reported when the tests have run.
- - Multiple occurrences of some options, like
true/1
, are
combined. It used to quietly discard all but one.
- - Test options are more thoroughly checked, and incompatible options are
reported.
- - Problems with options, and with test initialization, are now reported
and counted as a failure also when the test is run. It used to print a
warning but not be counted towards the number of failed tests.
- - A test body that succeeds while leaving as choice point will now be
treated as a test failure, unless
nondet
is specified. This was
always the documented behavior, but it used to only print a warning.
- The Java code in libraries and examples has been cleaned up to avoid warnings and use of deprecated features.
- The Java code in
se/sics/jasper/
has been changed to use
generic types. This may trigger some Java compiler warnings for
existing code. Code that use ‘raw’ types may need to be updated,
e.g. changing Map
to Map<String,Term>
for the maps that
specify variable bindings.
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