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The main upgrade is a performance improvement. The intermediary
Python code is cached and reused when the STOL source does not change.
This increases speed significantly, especially for large STOL scripts.
The cache file is stored in StolFile.prc.py, where StolFile is your
file STOL file. Although the file has a .py extension it is actually
not a Python file, it is a cache of some internal containers generated
by 'pickle'. However, the Python source is pretty much in the clear.
If the STOL file or the version of the StolEmu.py file changes the
cached file is discarded and regenerated. So if you change the source
constantly you won't gain too much from this caching. There are
some other performance improvements, so even while developing a
STOL script this release should work faster.
In addition to the performance improvements there are some bug
fixes:
Local variables were not
passed properly to STOL procedure calls. Fixed.
If a local variable was defined after a GOTO statement and that
statement was executed an error was reported. Fixed.
This is an update release to
R186.018, only the StolEmu.py file is deployed. If you have
an earlier version than R186.018 installed you might want to upgrade
to R186.018 first before installing R186.020. There are separate
updates for Gseos4.5 and Gseos5.0. The Gseos5.0 release also contains
the GseosBDM_d.pyd file to fix a FRAME PROCESS problem.
Install:
Gseos4.5: Download StolEmu4.5.186.020.zip and extract the file
into the Messenger root directory (where the gseos.exe resides).
Gseos5.0: Download StolEmu5.0.186.020.zip and extract the files
into the Messenger root directory (where the gseos.exe resides).
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