[MLton-user] MLton experimental release 20041018

Joe Hurd joe.hurd@comlab.ox.ac.uk
Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:02:15 +0100


I'd like to try out the new profiling (-profile count), but can't find
any documentation about it in the profiling section of the on-line
user manual. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Joe

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:37:42 -0700, Stephen Weeks <sweeks@sweeks.com> wrote:
> 
> We are pleased to announce the availability of an experimental release
> of MLton, version 20041018.
> 
>         http://www.mlton.org/experimental/
> 
> This release is in anticipation of a public release to be made in
> several weeks time.  We would appreciate any feedback you can provide
> on this experimental release, so that we can make our public release
> as complete and as stable as possible.
> 
> This release has a number of improvements, including the following.
> 
>   + New platforms.
>     o x86: FreeBSD 5.x, OpenBSD
>     o PowerPC: Darwin (MacOS X)
>   + Support for ML Basis files, a new mechanism supporting programming
>     in the very large, separate delivery of library sources, and more.
>   + Support for dynamic libraries.
>   + Support for Concurrent ML (CML).
>   + New structures: Int2, Int3, ..., Int31 and Word2, Word3, ..., Word31.
>   + A new form of profiling with -profile count, which can be used to
>     test code coverage.
>   + A bytecode generator, available via -codegen bytecode.
>   + A number of representation improvements.
> 
> Please try out the experimental release and let us know what you
> think.  Thanks!
> 
> -- The MLton Team
> 
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