bigloo 4.0a

bigloo is an open source scheme compiler that delivers small and fast stand alone binary executables.

The current version has been compiled and tested on:

· x86-linux (Debian 3.0, Mandrake 8.1, Sun JDK 1.4.1)
· x86-win32 (Windows 2000, XP)
· x86-FreeBSD (4.0)
· x86-NetBSD (1.6)
· x86-MinGW ()
· PowerPC G4 (MacOS X xnu-201.5)
· PowerPC G3 (Gentoo Linux)
· SPARC (Solaris 2.6 and 2.8, Sun JDK 1.3, Linux (Debian))
· Compaq Alpha (Digital Unix 4.0f aka True64, JDK 1.3)
· Compaq Alpha (Linux 2.2 (Debian))
· Arm (Linux (Debian))
· IA64 (Linux (Debian))
· IBM P660 (AIX RS-6000 4.3.3)

Even if not tested, it should run correctly on:

· SGI (IP32)
· Intel (NeXTStep)
· IBM RS-6000 (AIX)
· SGI (IP20 and IP22)
· MAC PPC (2.2.15pre20)

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Here are some key features of "bigloo":

· Module support
· An extended Java interface
· An extended C interface
· An object oriented layer
· Threads
· Simple exception
· Practical IOs
· Posix support
· Library support
· An explicit type system and compile time type mismatch detections
· Dsssl support
· Unicode support

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A new API and new implementation multi-threading.