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This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20041109.
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<h2 id="head-9fa56f6715598f7143da2e8633da0b6fa4b9cfa7">Changes since the last public release</h2>
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New platforms:
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x86: FreeBSD 5.x, OpenBSD
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PowerPC: Darwin (MacOSX)
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Support for the <a href="MLBasis"> ML Basis system</a>, a new mechanism supporting programming in the very large, separate delivery of library sources, and more.
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Support for dynamic libraries.
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Support for <a href="ConcurrentML">ConcurrentML</a> (CML).
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New structures: <tt>Int2</tt>, <tt>Int3</tt>, ..., <tt>Int31</tt> and <tt>Word2</tt>, <tt>Word3</tt>, ..., <tt>Word31</tt>.
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Front-end bug fixes and improvements.
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A new form of profiling with <tt>-profile count</tt>, which can be used to test code coverage.
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A bytecode generator, available via <tt>-codegen bytecode</tt>.
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Representation improvements:
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Tuples and datatypes are packed to decrease space usage.
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Ref cells may be unboxed into their containing object.
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Arrays of tuples may represent the tuples unboxed.
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For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since 20040227, see the <a href = "http://mlton.org/cgi-bin/viewsvn.cgi/*checkout*/mlton/tags/on-20041109-release/doc/changelog"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">changelog</a>.
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<h2 id="head-a4bc8bf5caf54b18cea9f58e83dd4acb488deb17">Also see</h2>
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<a href="Bugs20041109">Bugs20041109</a>
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Last edited on 2007-08-24 20:25:55 by <span title="fenrir.uchicago.edu"><a href="MatthewFluet">MatthewFluet</a></span>.
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