From 8d5e4b2538ea7521f87be6c1fca82fbc2d0918b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: aarne Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 16:36:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] preliminary release --- doc/gf-index.html | 15 +++++++ doc/gf2.2-highlights.html | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/gf2.2-highlights.html diff --git a/doc/gf-index.html b/doc/gf-index.html index a613ab905..0d794dea2 100644 --- a/doc/gf-index.html +++ b/doc/gf-index.html @@ -18,6 +18,21 @@ November 8, 2004.

News

+May 9, 2005. Version 2.2 coming soon. Here is a +preliminary source release. +Here are the highlights. + +

+ +May 9, 2005. +PhD Thesis by +Kristofer Johannisson: + +Formal and Informal Software Specifications. + +

+ + March 15, 2005. Master's thesis by Björn Bringert on diff --git a/doc/gf2.2-highlights.html b/doc/gf2.2-highlights.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..27dabed31 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/gf2.2-highlights.html @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ + + + + +

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Grammatical Framework Version 2.2

+ +Highlights of GF version 2.2. + +

+ +9/5/2005 + +

+ +Aarne Ranta + +

+ + +

Summary of novelties in Version 2.2 in comparison to 2.1

+ +
  • New optimizations to reduce the size of GFC files +
  • Improved parsing algorithms +
  • Lots of bug fixes +
  • Separate reuse modules no longer needed +
  • Several new command options +
  • New documentation: + +
  • New resource libraries +
  • Visualization of module dependency graph +
  • In the editor GUI, text corresponding to subtrees with constraints marked with red colour +
  • Hierarchic modules used in the source code +
  • haddock documentation available for source code + + +

    Compiler optimizations

    + +The sometimes exploding size of generated gfc and +gfr files has made it urgent to find optimizations +that reduce the size of the code. There are five +combinations optimizations that can be chosen, as the value of the +optimize flag: + +The share and parametrize optimizations are always +just good, whereas the values optimization may slow down the +use of the table. However, it is very good for grammars mostly consisting +of the inflection tables of lexical items: it can reduce the file size +by the factor of 4. + +

    + +An optimization can be selected individually for each +resource and concrete module by including +the judgement +

    +  flags optimize=(share|parametrize|values|all|none) ;
+
    +in the module body. These flags can be overridden by a flag given +in the i command, e.g. +
    +  i -src -optimize=none Foo.gf
+
    +Notice that the option -src is needed if there already are +generated files created with other optimization flags. + + + + + +