Since there might be tricky cases in the analyzer (in the case of unsafe
lines) which would need to be properly checked again. Instead, this
splits the code generator in two functions and use information set by
the analyzer to tell which function to use, without a need to re-check.
This adds initialization to every typed temporary stack slot at the
beginning of the function call instead of emitting instructions, since
those might be in a conditional branch and not be called.
There's now only 3 addressing modes: stack, constant, and member.
Self, class, and nil are now present respectively in the first 3 stack
slots. Global and class constants are moved to local constants when
compiling. Named globals is only present on editor to use on tool
singletons, so its use now emits a new instruction to copy the global to
the stack.
This allow us to further optimize the VM later by embedding the
addressing modes in the instructions themselves, which is better done
with less permutations.
When the type cannot be validated at compile time, the runtime must do a
check to ensure type safety is kept, as the code might be assuming the
return type is correct in another place, leading to crashes if the
contract is broken.
- Use `Array[type]` for type-hints. e.g.:
`var array: Array[int] = [1, 2, 3]`
- Array literals are typed if their storage is typed (variable
asssignment of as argument in function all). Otherwise they are
untyped.
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community!
2020 has been a tough year for most of us personally, but a good year for
Godot development nonetheless with a huge amount of work done towards Godot
4.0 and great improvements backported to the long-lived 3.2 branch.
We've had close to 400 contributors to engine code this year, authoring near
7,000 commit! (And that's only for the `master` branch and for the engine code,
there's a lot more when counting docs, demos and other first-party repos.)
Here's to a great year 2021 for all Godot users 🎆
George Marques
Marcel Admiraal
Aaron Franke
Rémi Verschelde
Julien Nguyen
Rémi Verschelde
PouleyKetchoupp
Brian Semrau
Thakee Nathees