release announcement

[Stephen Weeks]

Here is the announcement.  Please send corrections and comments.


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

   + Generates small, standalone executables with good runtime performance 
   + SML 97 compliant, with a mostly complete basis library 
   + Fast IntInf based on the GNU multiprecision library (gmp) 
   + Fast C FFI 
   + Profiling 
   + Libraries for continuations, interval timers, random numbers,
       signal handlers, sockets, system logging, threads, 
       and heap save and restore  

The latest version of MLton is 20010706, and is distributed in RPM and
gzipped tar formats.  For more information, go to MLton home page: 

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

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