[MLton] the next public release

[Stephen Weeks]

> I agree that there should be a release soon, but byte code compiler?  Is
> there such a thing and I missed it?

I started work on one back in May and made some progress, which is in
the CVS.  It doesn't yet compile anything.  I plan to get back to it
in a couple of weeks, once the array/vector flattening stuff is
working.

It's a whole-program byte-code compiler, so it's not as nice as you
might hope.  But, it still should allow for a lot faster testing than
the native-code compiler.