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