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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&nbsp;count</tt>, which can be used to test code coverage. 
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 A bytecode generator, available via <tt>-codegen&nbsp;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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