new release of MLton

Stephen Weeks sweeks@intertrust.com
Fri, 14 Jul 2000 02:10:08 -0700 (PDT)


A new version of MLton has been released, and the MLton home page and
mailing addresses have changed.  By virtue of being on the old mailing 
list, MLton-discuss@research.nj.nec.com, you have been moved over to
the new mailing list, MLton-discuss@sourcelight.com.  If you want to
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Here is the release announcement.  Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce a new release of MLton, an optimizing
compiler for Standard ML.  MLton runs on X86 machines under Linux.
MLton has the following features.

   + Generates standalone executables with good runtime performance 
   + SML 97 compliant 
   + Mostly complete basis library 
   + Fast IntInf based on the GNU multiprecision library (gmp) 
   + Libraries for continuations, threads, signal handlers, 
     and heap save and restore 
   + Profiling 
   + Fast C FFI 

The latest version of MLton is 20000712, and is distributed in RPM
format.  For more information, go to MLton home page: 

	http://www.sourcelight.com/MLton/

Send comments, questions and bug reports to MLton@sourcelight.com.