* Implement compileSetting() and compileSettingSeq()
* Change from magic to vmop
* better design for querySetting
Co-authored-by: genotrance <dev@genotrance.com>
* Increased regBx size from 16 to 24 bits to increase jump range in the VM
from 32K to 8M instructions. Fixes#12727
* Increased VM TInst register field sizes to 16 bits to allow up to 65535 VM registers per proc
* Added test case for >255 VM registers
* make fullpaths the default in error messages and stack traces for more convenient development
* split up -d:release into -d:release and -d:danger flags
* workaround a Nim config parser bug
* fixes an old nim config parser bug
* make megatest green again
* make nimpretty tests work again
* make nimsuggest green
This plugin provides essential building block for implementing incremental computations in your programs. The idea behind incremental computations is that if you do the same calculation multiple times but with slightly different inputs you don't have to recompute everything from scratch. Also you don't want to adopt special algorithms either, you would like to write your code in standard from scratch manner and get incrementality for free when it is possible.
The plugin computes the digest of the proc bodies, recursively hashing all called procs as well . Such digest with the digest of the argument values gives a good "name" for the result. Terminology loosely follows paper "Incremental Computation with Names" link below. It works well if you have no side effects in your computations. If you have global state in your computations then you will need problem specific workarounds to represent global state in set of "names" . SideEffect tracking in Nim also useful in this topic.
Classical examples:
Dashboard with ticking data. New data arrives non stop and you would like to update the dashboard recomputing only changed outputs.
Excel spreadsheet where user changes one cell and you would like to recompute all cells that are affected by the change, but do not want to recompute every cell in the spreadsheet.
* Rework exception handling in the VM
Make the safepoint handling more precise and less forgiving.
The new code is clearer and more commented.
Perform cleanup on `return`.
The no-exception-thrown case in a try block should be slightly faster
since we don't parse the whole set of exceptions every time.
More tests.
* Fix silly error that broke a few tests
* Testament doesn't like files having the same name
* Remove test case that failed compilation to js
