yap-6.3/LGPL/chr/Changelog

Sep 2, 2005

  * TS: Synchronized with hProlog.

Aug 31, 2005

  * TS: Added missing operator declarations for prefix (?).

Aug 9, 2005

  * JW: import lists into chr_compiler_utility.pl

  * JW: make message hook for query(yes) detect CHR global variables.

  * JW: Exported pairlist_delete_eq/3 from pairlist and use this in
    chr_hashtable_store.pl

Aug 4, 2005

  * TS: Renamed pairlist:delete/3 to pairlist:pairlist_delete/3.
	Mike Elston.
Aug 1, 2005

  * TS: Extended more efficient ground matching code to
	removed simpagation occurrence code.

Jul 28, 2005

  * TS: New input verification: duplicate constraint declaration
	now reported as an error. Requested by Mike Elston.
  * TS: More efficient matching code for ground constraints
	when matching an argument of a partner constraint with
	a ground term
  * JS: Bug fix in guard simplification.

Jul 3, 2005

  * TS: Factored out option functionality into separate module.
  * TS: Factored out utility code into separate module.

Jun 29, 2005

  * TS: Changed chr_show_store/1 to use print/1 instead of write/1.

Jun 28, 2005

  * TS: Removed spurious and conflicting operator definitions
	for +, - and ? as mode declarations.

Jun 27, 2005

  * TS: Added find_chr_constraint/1 functionality.

Jun 8, 2005

  * TS: Improved compiler scalability: use nb_setval/2 to
        remember compiled code through backtracking over
	compilation process instead of assert/1.
  * TS: Removed spurious comma from file.

Jun 1, 2005

  * TS: Added option to disable toplevel constraint store printing.
  * TS: Slightly improved hash table constraint store implementation.
 
Apr 16, 2005

  * JW: Added patch from Jon Sneyers.

Mar 11, 2005

  * TS: Improved head reordering heuristic.
  * TS: Added support primitive for alternate built-in solver dependency.

Mar 4, 2005

  * TS: Fixed bug that causes wrong output in chr_show_store.

Feb 25, 2005

  * TS: Fixed several bugs in generation of debugable code.

Feb 19, 2005

  * JW: Cleanup integration in SWI-Prolog environment:
	- Extended SWI-Prolog library ordsets.  Renamed ord_delete/3 to
	  ord_del_element/3 and ord_difference/3 to ord_subtract/3 for
	  better compatibility.
	- Renamed module find to chr_find to avoid name conflict and declared
	  preds as meta-predicate.
	- Re-inserted and exported strip_attributes/2 and
	  restore_attributes/2 in hprolog.pl. Deleted hprolog: from
	  chr_translate.chr.
	- Added dummy option declarations to bootstrap compiler.
	- Fixed path problems in makefile (-p chr=.) and install new
	  components.
	- Fixed typo 'chr show_store' --> chr_show_store.

Feb 17, 2005

  * JS: Added guard entailment optimizations and
	new syntax for type and mode declarations.

Dec 15, 2004

  * TS: Use prolog:message/3 hook to automatically print
	contents of CHR constraint stores with query bindings
	on toplevel.

Dec  3, 2004

  * TS: Bugfix in code generation. Reported by Lyosha Ilyukhin.

Jul 28, 2004

  * TS: Updated hashtable stores. They now start small and expand.

Jul 19, 2004

  * JW: Removed chr_pp: module prefixes
  * JW: Updated Windows makefile.mak (more similar organisation, added check)

Jul 17, 2004

  * TS: Added chr_hashtable_store library.
  * TS: Added find library.
  * TS: Added builtins library.
  * TS: Added clean_code library.
  * TS: Added binomial_heap library.
  * TS: Added a_star library.
  * TS: Added new intermediate bootstrapping step
  * TS: Synchronized CHR compiler with most recent development version

  Summary of changes:

   "The new version of the compiler contains several new optimizations, both
    fully automatic, such as the antimonotny-based delay avoidance (see
    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/publicaties/rapporten/cw/CW385.abs.html for
    the technical report), and enabled by mode declarations (see CHR
    documentation), such as hashtable-based constraint indexes."

Apr 9, 2004

  * JW: Added chr_messages.pl.  Make all debug messages use the print_message/2
    interface to enable future embedding.

Apr 7, 2004

  * JW: Added chr:debug_interact/3 hook.  Defined in chr_swi.pl to void
    showing constraints first as goal and then as CHR call.
  * JW: Added chr:debug_event/2 hook.  Defined in chr_swi.pl to make the
    CHR debugger honour a skip command from the Prolog tracer.

Apr 6, 2004

  * JW: Added b (break) to the CHR debugger.
  * TS: added chr_expandable/2 clause for pragma/2

Apr 5, 2004

  * JW: fixed reference to format_rule/2.
  * JW: Use select/3 rather than delete/3 in diff/2 in Tests/zebra.pl
  * TS: CHR translation now leaves CHR store empty

Apr 4, 2004

  * JW: added :- use_module(library(chr)) to all examples.
  * JW: mapped -O --> option(optimize, full).
  * JW: introduced file-search-path `chr' for clarity and to enable running
    make check from the local environment instead of the public installation.
  * JW: mapped prolog flag generate_debug_info --> option(debug, on)
  * JW: Replaced the chr -> pl step with term_expansion/2.
  * JW: Moved insert_declarations/2 to chr_swi.pl

Apr 2, 2004

  * JW: fixed Undefined procedure: chr_runtime:run_suspensions_loop_d/1
  * TS: Added <space> for creep and shortened debug line prefix to CHR:

Mar 29, 2004

  * JW: Use \+ \+ in chr_compile/3 to undo changes to the constraint
    pool.  Regression test suite using "make check" works again.

Mar 25, 2004

  * TS: Added skip and ancestor debug commands

Mar 24, 2004

  * TS: Added bootstrapping process for CHR compiler using CHR.
  * TS: CHR compiler now uses CHR.
  * TS: Fixed bug in compilation of multi-headed simpagation rules.
  * TS: Cleaned up compiler.
  * TS: Added analysis + optimization for never attached constraints.
  * TS: Exploit uniqueness (functional dependency) results to detect
    set semantics type simpagation rules where one rule can be passive
  * TS: Compiler generates 'chr debug_event'/1 calls
  * TS: Rudimentary support for debugging.
    option(debug,on) causes a trace of CHR events to be printed

Mar 15, 2004

  * JW: Fix operator handling.

Mar 3, 2004

  * JW: Integrated new version from Tom Schrijvers.