The Parrot team proudly presents the Parrot 0.1.0 leap release. It provides some milestones like objects and multi-threading1[1] and supports many more platforms.
After some pause you can grab it from <http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.1.0.tar.gz> or just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at <http://dev.perl.org/cvs/>.
Turn your web browser towards <http://www.parrotcode.org/> for more information about Parrot, get involved, and:
Have fun! leo
[1] The list of changes includes:
- "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... objects!" - Huge documentation overhaul - More supported platforms, s. PLATFORMS - Basic thread support for pthread based architectures - Basic event handling for timers and signals including: - PASM callbacks for NCI (native C) functions. - Improved platform configuration - COW stacks now working, stacks code redone - Structure handling vastly improved - Random PMC and rand primitives - Better subroutine call syntax in PIR - Make PIR subroutines compliant with pdd03 - Improved profiling (DOD, GC timings) - Hash code improvements, incl. random key order support - Experimental freeze/thaw code for some PMC types - IO improvements for buffered layer and Win32 - String iterators - String bitwise vtables - Many new opcodes - Suppport for JIT, where malloced memory isn't executable - Priority DOD scheme for objects that need timely destruction - Improved byte code loading (e.g. onLoad functions) - Language updates: forth, Perl6/P6C, m4 - Libraries: Getopt_Long, SDL, Dumper, Sort - new JAPH examples - Unified imcc and parrot test handling - Many new tests (make test reports 1386 tests) - Numerous bug fixes
