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26<h1>Release20041109</h1>\r
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31<div class="paragraph"><p>This is an archived public release of MLton, version 20041109.</p></div>\r
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35<h2 id="_changes_since_the_last_public_release">Changes since the last public release</h2>\r
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40New platforms:\r
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45x86: FreeBSD 5.x, OpenBSD\r
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50PowerPC: Darwin (MacOSX)\r
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57Support 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.\r
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61<p>\r
62Support for dynamic libraries.\r
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66<p>\r
67Support for <a href="ConcurrentML">ConcurrentML</a> (CML).\r
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72New structures: <span class="monospaced">Int2</span>, <span class="monospaced">Int3</span>, &#8230;, <span class="monospaced">Int31</span> and <span class="monospaced">Word2</span>, <span class="monospaced">Word3</span>, &#8230;, <span class="monospaced">Word31</span>.\r
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77Front-end bug fixes and improvements.\r
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81<p>\r
82A new form of profiling with <span class="monospaced">-profile count</span>, which can be used to test code coverage.\r
83</p>\r
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86<p>\r
87A bytecode generator, available via <span class="monospaced">-codegen bytecode</span>.\r
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91<p>\r
92Representation improvements:\r
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97Tuples and datatypes are packed to decrease space usage.\r
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102Ref cells may be unboxed into their containing object.\r
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107Arrays of tuples may represent the tuples unboxed.\r
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113<div class="paragraph"><p>For a complete list of changes and bug fixes since 20040227, see the\r
114<a href="https://raw.github.com/MLton/mlton/on-20041109-release/doc/changelog"><span class="monospaced">changelog</span></a>.</p></div>\r
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118<h2 id="_also_see">Also see</h2>\r
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123<a href="Bugs20041109">Bugs20041109</a>\r
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