+1
This is terrific news at the end of a crappy week!
-Aaron
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Dominikus Herzberg <
dominikus.herzb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations for the release! Fantastic work!
>
> Regards,
>
> Dominikus
>
> 2012/8/17 John Benediktsson <mrj...@gmail.com>:
> > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - Mark Twain
> >
> > I'm very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.95! You can
> > find download links on the Factor website:
> >
> > http://factorcode.org
> >
> > This release is brought to you with over 2,500 commits by the following
> > individuals:
> >
> > Alex Vondrak, Alfredo Beaumont, Andrew Pennebaker, Anton Gorenko,
> > Brennan Cheung, Chris Double, Daniel Ehrenberg, Doug Coleman, Eric
> > Charlebois, Eungju Park, Hugo Schmitt, Joe Groff, John Benediktsson,
> > Jon Harper, Keita Haga, Maximilian Lupke, Philip Searle, Philipp
> > Brüschweiler, Rupert Swarbrick, Sascha Matzke, Slava Pestov,
> > @8byte-jose, @yac, @otoburb, @rien
> >
> > In addition to lots (and lots!) of bug fixes and improvements, I want to
> > highlight the following features:
> >
> > * GTK-based UI backend
> > * Native image loaders using Cocoa, GTK, and GDI+
> > * Sampling profiler replacing counting profiler
> > * Code coverage tool to improve unit tests
> > * VM and application-level signal handlers
> > * ICMP support and an IPv4 "ping" implementation
> > * DNS client and "host" implementation
> > * Support frexp and log of "really big numbers"
> > * Cross-platform "open URL in webbrowser"
> > * Cross-platform "send file to trash"
> > * Speedup bignum GCD and ratio operations
> > * Speedup in thread yield performance on Mac OS X
> > * CSV library is 3x faster
> > * XML library is 2x faster
> > * JSON library is 2-3x faster
> > * Many documentation improvements
> > * Many stability and performance enhancements
> >
> > Some possible backwards compatibility issues:
> >
> > * Change alien references from "<int>" to "int <ref>" and "*int" to "int
> deref"
> > * Removed Windows CE, BSD, and Solaris platform support
> > * Natively support binary (0b), octal (0o), and hexadecimal (0x) number
> syntax
> > * Unify "( -- )" and "(( -- ))" stack effect syntax
> > * Change prepend to return type of first sequence to match append
> behavior
> > * Change ".factor-rc" to be ".factor-rc" on all platforms
> > * Cleanup specialized array syntax to be more generic and consistent
> > * Change to quadratic probing instead of linear probing in hashtables
> > * Allow dispatching on anonymous intersections/unions
> >
> > For more details, please see the full announcement at:
> >
> > http://re-factor.blogspot.com/2012/08/factor-095-now-available.html
> >
> >
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