Month: February 2018

Calculator REPL Part 4: Support bools

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This is the fourth installment in my discussion of building a calculator REPL in Rust. (For convenience, here are part 1 part 2 and part 3 .) I’ve decided that I like this project a lot, and that I’m going to gradually start trying to make it into a fully-featured Scheme interpreter. (It already has way too many parentheses, after all.)

The first thing I want to do in expanding beyond a calculator REPL is have two data types. Before I just had ints; now I’m going to add bools. Continue reading “Calculator REPL Part 4: Support bools” →

Investigating Performance Changes with git bisect

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This week, I have been working an issue with LALRPOP. Basically, at some point there was a performance degradation on a newer version of the library. Niko Matsakis mentioned that this is likely due to failing to cache some regular expressions that we need repeatedly. I assume he’s correct, but I want to understand how this performance degradation was introduced, and I’m very new to this code base, so I’m going to try to find the change that introduced it. To find this change, I will use a tool called git bisect. Continue reading “Investigating Performance Changes with git bisect” →