mruby 2.0.1

We are proudly announcing the stable release of mruby 2.0 series - mruby 2.0.1.


New Features

Core Language Features

  • Support string literal concatenation.

Core Libraries

Ruby 2.6 Features

  • Add Enumerator::Chain, Enumerable#chain and Enumerator#+.
  • Add function composition operators << and >> to Proc and Method.

Compatibility

  • Recover methods removed in mruby 2.0.0. String#to_str, Integer#to_int, Float#to_int
  • Improve compatibility to CRuby for Float#to_s #4225

mruby-class-ext

  • Add methods.
    Module#<, Module<=, Module>, Module>=, Module<=>

mruby-pack

  • Support Big-endian platform.

Tools

mruby debugger (mrdb)

  • Add info locals command.

New C APIs

mruby core

MRB_API mrb_value mrb_ary_splice(mrb_state *mrb, mrb_value self, mrb_int head, mrb_int len, mrb_value rpl);
MRB_API void mrb_notimplement(mrb_state*);
MRB_API mrb_value mrb_vformat(mrb_state *mrb, const char *format, va_list ap);

String class

MRB_API double mrb_cstr_to_dbl(mrb_state *mrb, const char *s, mrb_bool badcheck);
MRB_API mrb_value mrb_cstr_to_inum(mrb_state *mrb, const char *s, mrb_int base, mrb_bool badcheck);

Hash class

MRB_API void mrb_hash_foreach(mrb_state *mrb, struct RHash *hash, mrb_hash_foreach_func *func, void *p);
MRB_API mrb_int mrb_hash_size(mrb_state *mrb, mrb_value hash);

Object class

MRB_API void mrb_iv_foreach(mrb_state *mrb, mrb_value obj, mrb_iv_foreach_func *func, void *p);

Time class

MRB_API mrb_time_at(mrb_state *mrb, double sec, double usec, enum mrb_timezone zone);

Reducing Memory Consumption

  • Remove symbol hash table from mrb_state structure.
    Use linear search instead. Number of symbols is usually small (<1K), so we don’t need performance boost from hash tables. In our benchmark measurement, hash tables consumes 790KB for build/full-debug/mrbtest.

  • Implement inline packed symbols.
    Small symbols with all alphanumeric characters (<5) are packed in 32bit symbol integer a la base64.
    This means those small symbols are not listed in Symbol.all_symbols.


Breaking Changes

There are three major breaking changes from mruby 2.0.0

Binary (MRB) format

  • Change compiled binary format version. (“0005” -> “0006”)

Add RRange API

Developers must use following APIs for accessing attributes of RRange because RRange structure depends on boxing setting.

  • mrb_range_beg
  • mrb_range_end
  • mrb_range_excl_p

Remove C API

  • Functions to be made static (MRB_API was not needed):
    mrb_mod_module_function(), mrb_obj_hash(), mrb_str_len_to_inum(), sym2name_len()
  • Functions to remove MRB_API from definitions (referenced from within libmruby):
    mrb_mod_cv_defined(), mrb_mod_cv_get(), mrb_f_send()

Small incompatible changes in function prototypes

  • mrb_parser_get_filename: return value changed to mrb_sym.
  • mrb_debug_get_filename: add mrb_state* as a first argument.
  • mrb_debug_get_line: ditto.

Remove methods

  • Remove Kernel#class_defined? which is not available in CRuby; #3829

Major bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug on platforms without BYTE_ORDER; fix #4190
  • Fix 0.0 and -0.0 handling.
  • Fix dump/load float literal evaluate to infinity.
  • Fix Symbol#size for multi-byte characters with MRB_UTF8_STRING.
  • Add OP_ENTER to blocks without parameters; fix #4175
  • Should not check non-node value to void_expr_error; fix #4203 #4192
  • Should not copy keys&values when a hash table is empty; fix #4270
  • Raise error on failed comparison in sort; ref #4307
  • Fix memory leak in time_update_datetime; fix #4308

We have done 371 commits to 163 files, 2,397 lines were added, 1,570 lines removed since mruby 2.0.0. For more detail of the updates, see Commit Log.

Evaluated mrbgems list (NPO mruby forum)

See the list.

Let’s try mruby 2.0.1.