0.10 Beta Release October 2022

This release contains the following.

New features

• Incremental builds for code analysis and Fortran compilation.
  • When you rebuild, previously created artefacts are reused.
• Prebuilds
  • Share incremental build artefacts between users.
  • A new build step to grab prebuilds. They can also be copied manually.
  • See tbd.
• Fortran call analysis
  • Fab will now detect Fortran dependencies from CALL statements, not just USE statements.
  • Can greatly reduce use of the unreferenced_deps argument to the Analyse step for some projects.
• Busby style metrics for visualising single-file bottlenecks.
• Optional two-stage compilation.
  • A potential optimisation to deal with single-file bottlenecks, as described in Busby.

Other developments

• Improved documentation.
• Improved confidence through testing.

Limitations

• Fortran call analysis doesn't detect calls on a single-line if statement.