GAP.jl 0.4.3 released

Today GAP.jl 0.4.3 has been released.

Diff since v0.4.1

Summary of changes

The main achievements of this release are performance improvements.

Closed issues:

• Rename EvalString to something more Julia like (#473)
• Allow julia_to_gap(x; recursive=true) (#475)
• provide convert methods for GAP to Julia conversion, parallel to constructor methods (#482)
• doctest fail with Julia 1.6? (#484)
• Reduce the overhead for GAP symbol lookup via GAP.Globals.NAME (#485)
• Reduce overhead for calls from Julia to GAP (#486)
• Tab completion on GAP.Globals.FOOBAR could be faster (#489)
• Error thrown by GAP: Error, PackageManager: InstallPackage: must be a string (#499)

Merged pull requests:

• Run JuliaFormatter.format on some of our Julia code (#466) (@fingolfin)
• extend the documentation of GAP.jl (#472) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Rename artifact gap-4-11-0 to gap (#477) (@fingolfin)
• evalstr returns nothing if GAP returns no result (#478) (@ThomasBreuer)
• julia_to_gap: handle recursion via keyword argument (#479) (@ThomasBreuer)
• admit installing a package in Packages.load (#480) (@ThomasBreuer)
• added documentation and doctests for constructors … (#481) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Make calls from Julia to GAP faster (#487) (@fingolfin)
• make GAP.Globals. complete faster (#490) (@rfourquet)
• define some doctestfilters (#491) (@ThomasBreuer)
• more conversion variants and documentation (#492) (@ThomasBreuer)
• fix julia_to_gap conversion of strings (#493) (@ThomasBreuer)
• support computed external references (#494) (@ThomasBreuer)
• Avoid function call overhead when CxxWrap.jl is loaded (#495) (@fingolfin)
• Refactor code for accessing global GAP variables (#496) (@fingolfin)
• Optimize access to GAP records (#497) (@fingolfin)
• Fix some Traceur.jl warnings (#498) (@fingolfin)
• Remove use of @pure again (#500) (@fingolfin)
• Expose the handle returned by dlopen(“libgap”) (#501) (@fingolfin)
• Various tweaks (#502) (@fingolfin)
• Use optimized call_gap_func in more situations (#503) (@fingolfin)
• Refactor gap_to_julia for Matrix{T} (#504) (@fingolfin)
• Streamline some ccalls.jl code (#506) (@fingolfin)
• ccall GAP_register_GapObj only when really necessary (#507) (@fingolfin)