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The redesign introduces no fundamental incompatibilities, but it does involve minor breaking changes: * The simulator commands were moved from hdl.ast to back.pysim (instead of only being reexported from back.pysim). * back.pysim.DeadlineError was removed. Summary of changes: * The new simulator compiles HDL to Python code and is >6x faster. (The old one compiled HDL to lots of Python lambdas.) * The new simulator is a straightforward, rigorous implementation of the Synchronous Reactive Programming paradigm, instead of a pile of ad-hoc code with no particular design driving it. * The new simulator never raises DeadlineError, and there is no limit on the amount of delta cycles. * The new simulator robustly handles multiclock designs. * The new simulator can be reset, such that the compiled design can be reused, which can save significant runtime with large designs. * Generators can no longer be added as processes, since that would break reset(); only generator functions may be. If necessary, they may be added by wrapping them into a generator function; a deprecated fallback does just that. This workaround will raise an exception if the simulator is reset and restarted. * The new simulator does not depend on Python extensions. (The old one required bitarray, which did not provide wheels.) Fixes amaranth-lang#28. Fixes amaranth-lang#34. Fixes amaranth-lang#160. Fixes amaranth-lang#161. Fixes amaranth-lang#215. Fixes amaranth-lang#242. Fixes #262.
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