Releases

v0.12

Hawk v0.12 is the latest release. It includes:

• Unicode strings, characters, case conversion, and UTF-8 input/output
• JIT recording for apply
• improved operand scheduling and register allocation
• faster inexact complex-number allocation
• numeric, reader, runtime, and garbage-collection fixes

Download the v0.12 source tarball, Debian amd64 package, or Arch Linux PKGBUILD.

tar xf hawk-v0.12.tar.gz
cd hawk-v0.12
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build
./build/hawk --version

v0.11

Hawk v0.11 It includes an improved garbage collector.

Download the v0.11 source tarball.

tar xf hawk-v0.11.tar.gz
cd hawk-v0.11
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build
./build/hawk --version

v0.10

Hawk v0.10 It includes:

• faster stack limit checks and VM stack scanning
• operand and constant fusion for more efficient generated code
• improved x86-64 and aarch64 code emitters
• optimized integer hashing and assv
• the --unsafe option for disabling array bounds checks
• Arch Linux and Debian package support

Download the v0.10 source tarball.

tar xf hawk-v0.10.tar.gz
cd hawk-v0.10
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build
./build/hawk --version

v0.9

Hawk v0.9 is the first public source release. It includes:

• a tracing JIT compiler for Scheme
• bytecode compiler, VM, runtime, garbage collector, and native emitters
• x86-64 and aarch64 support
• release tarballs with a pregenerated boot image, so Gauche is not needed for normal release builds

Download the v0.9 source tarball.

tar xf hawk-v0.9.tar.gz
cd hawk-v0.9
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build
./build/hawk --version