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COBOL to WebAssembly compiler
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Upgrade to gnucobol-3.x #3

Open XVilka opened 3 years ago

XVilka commented 3 years ago

2.2 is very old, compatibility with proprietary COBOL dialects and standard greatly improved since:

KTSnowy commented 2 years ago

It's been a year, will it ever be updated to gnuCOBOL 3.x?

GitMensch commented 10 months ago

@xtuc An update to GnuCOBOL 3.2 which brings a lot of performance improvements would be quite useful.

Note that you also won't need autoconf or textinfo in the build worker, but likely want to update the worker itself to a newer Ubuntu version than 18.04.

A nice addition, which should likely be moved out to a separate issue, would be support for ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED. BDB is quite heavy, but you could go with a plain C implementation of a real ISAM library: VBISAM. Find a link to the base for the upcoming version along with a performance patch at https://sourceforge.net/p/vbisam/bugs/11/.