SWEET! :D Thanks, Dino! (just getting back from OSCON so only now getting caught up with the latest news. A few photo's for those with interest > http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10353&l=944b5&id=502036603 < (URI is publicly accessible))
On 7/26/07, Dino Viehland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello IronPython Community, > > We have just released IronPython 2.0 Alpha 3. This release is a snapshot > of the on-going progress with IronPython 2.0 and the DLR. The most > significant changes in this release include more work to use dynamic sites > from IronPython and improved evaluation mode support. This release is also > timed to closely coincide with the IronRuby release and provides a > near-identical DLR release. > > > > The improved support for dynamic sites from IronPython has resulted in a > performance improvement for a number of scenarios including method lookup, > indexing operations, and member access. We expect future releases to > continue with this trend to get improved performance in future versions. > There are no significant changes to the underlying dynamic site > infrastructure in this release but we expect some changes there which will > also improve performance in future releases. > > > > This release also contains near complete support for evaluation support. > There are now only a handful of corner cases where evaluation support is > incomplete. Evaluation support enables the DLR to interpret code instead of > compiling it and executing it resulting in faster run times for code that is > executed once or rarely executed at all. > > > > There are also a number of small tweaks to the underlying DLR > infrastructure as it continues to evolve. None of the changes in this > release are radical and most external language implementations should be > able to easily move from Alpha 2 to Alpha 3. > > > > Note: Again due to dependencies upon APIs that are not present in > Silverlight 1.1 Alpha (released at MIX) you won't be able to re-build this > release for use with Silverlight. As both products stabilize more we expect > better compatibility between releases. > > > You can download IronPython v2.0 Alpha 3 at http://www.codeplex.com > /IronPython/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3749 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com<http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com> > /listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com<http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com> > > -- /M:D M. David Peterson http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155
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