MLton 2001-10-06 is out

[Stephen Weeks]

Thanks very much Henry.  It looks great!  That's three releases in in three
months.  Not bad.

> ftp://ftp.research.bell-labs.com/dist/smlnj/benchmarks/110-benchmarks.tar.Z
> no  longer  exists.   In  the  same  directory  there  is   a   file   called
> SML97-benchmarks.tar.Z,  which  might  contain  what  we  got  from  the  old
> 110-benchmarks.tar.Z, but since I don't know exactly  which  benchmarks  came
> from   there   I   can't   be   sure.

Yeah, that's the right file, but I changed it to the following in the hope of a
longer URL life

	ftp://ftp.research.bell-labs.com/dist/smlnj/benchmarks/

> http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/files/programs/unix/latex2html/manual/
> is not responding.

Never has.  It's automatically generated by latex2html and I never looked into
how to fix it.

> http://www.daimi.au.dk/CPnets/workshop99/papers/Mortensen.ps.gz
> This  link is fine, but I hadn't seen it before.  When I grabbed it I noticed
> that in their comparison of MLton and SML/NJ they say that MLton code is  1/3
> the  speed  (but  half the size) of SML/NJ.  They were using the C version of
> MLton, who knows how long ago, but we should see if MLton now does better.

Yeah, it's way down on my todo list to look into his code (which I haven't
obtained yet).

> Stephen, you should send something to MLton-discuss on the new version.

Imminent.