VIATRA/Releases/NewAndNoteworthy1.5

Support for more number literals in query language

All number literals supported by Xtend (see documentation for details) are now directly supported by the VIATRA Query language.

pattern circleConstantDiameter1(c : Circle) {
  Circle.diameter(c, 3l);
  Circle.area(c, 9.42f);
}

Performance improvements in the incremental query evaluator (Rete engine)

Constant values (more precisely constant-value filtering) within patterns are now handled more efficiently in many cases. In a proprietary code base, specifically for entire query packages where this feature is heavily used, we have observed a reduction between 15-30% in the memory footprint of Rete.