MLton History
| April 1997 | Stephen Weeks wrote a defunctorizer for SML/NJ | 
| Aug. 1997 | Begin independent compiler (smlc) | 
| Oct. 1997 | Monomorphiser | 
| Nov. 1997 | Polyvariant higher-order control-flow analysis (10,000 lines) | 
| March 1999 | First release of MLton (48,006 lines) | 
| Jan. 2002 | MLton at 102,541 lines | 
| Jan. 2003 | MLton at 112,204 lines | 
| Jan. 2004 | MLton at 122,299 lines | 
| Nov. 2004 | MLton at 141,311 lines | 
 
See History.