Nature v0.7 has achieved significant performance improvements through systematic optimizations of core modules including TCP/UDP/HTTP, CPU, string, GC, and closure. In benchmark tests, nature demonstrated unexpectedly strong performance, and there is still room for further optimization.

Installation Package

https://github.com/nature-lang/nature/releases/tag/v0.7.0

What's Changed

• Closure implementation refactored, JIT mode closure removed
• GC cleanup logic optimized, added needzero to distinguish whether a span needs cleanup
• String constantization handling, string as vec will perform deep copy
• HTTP server connection pool added
• Memory allocator performance optimized
• libuv usage refactored, removed multi-threading loop, using global loop
• TCP library performance optimized, connection pool added
• UDP removed libuv API, implemented using C API
• LIR BCC instruction assembly implementation optimized
• LIR safepoint instruction assembly implementation optimized, based on global flag to determine if GC is needed
• LIR stack instruction assembly implementation optimized, using sp register instead of fp register
• arm64/riscv64 added temporary variable elimination based on MOV instruction
• Struct instantiation method changed, assignment symbol from = to : https://github.com/nature-lang/nature/issues/174
• Editor NLS module development experience optimized, added language configuration files, struct completion, auto import, module suggestions, etc. https://github.com/nature-lang/nature/pull/178

Acknowledgments

Thanks to @arjendevos for code contributions to this release

Thanks to @mmachatschek @Angluca @nunu886 for financial support

Special thanks to @linky6565 for financial sponsorship, which has been a great help to the development of the nature programming language!