Archive-name: languages/scheme/gambit/1990-12-23
Archive: acorn.cs.brandeis.edu:/dist/gambit1.5.tar.Z [129.64.3.8]
Original-posting-by: ······@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Marc Feeley)
Original-subject: Gambit 1.5 now available
Reposted-by: ···@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)
Gambit 1.5 annoucement
======================
The new version of the Gambit Scheme system is now available. A
couple of minor bugs have been fixed from version 1.4. The support
for parallelism has been greatly improved. The compiler now generates
very efficient code for futures. There is also a new tool, gsx, for
visualizing processor activity on the GP1000 parallel computer.
You can get a copy of Gambit (release 1.5) via anonymous ftp from
the machine acorn.cs.brandeis.edu (address 129.64.3.8). It is in the
/dist directory and is compressed (about 400K). Don't forget to set
binary mode when you transfer the system.
For those who don't know about Gambit, here is a repeat of the
previous annoucement:
Gambit is an optimizing Scheme compiler/system under development at
Brandeis university. It was designed with efficiency and portability
as primary concerns. The current release has a back end which
generates M68020 code that runs on M680x0 based unix machines (SUN3,
HP300, BBN GP1000, etc).
Gambit supports the IEEE Scheme standard and the `future' construct.
Only exact arithmetic is implemented (bignums and ratnums but no
flonums). The system contains an interpreter that offers a minimal
debugging environment.
When compiled with Gambit, Gabriel's benchmarks take (on the average)
50% and 70% of the run time required by code compiled with MIT-Scheme
and T3.1, respectively.
Please give me some feedback on the system if you do try it out.
Marc -- ······@cs.brandeis.edu