bigloo Changelog

What's new in bigloo 4.0a

Jan 29, 2013
  • A new API and new implementation multi-threading.

New in bigloo 3.9a (Oct 29, 2012)

  • Closure unboxing optimization, new timed I/Os, and API optimizations (ALSA, FLAC, and mpg123).

New in bigloo 3.7a (Sep 27, 2011)

  • Enhanced compile-time type analysis, new compile-time optimisations, a new interpreter, and new multimedia libraries.

New in bigloo 3.6a (Jan 24, 2011)

  • This is a major version whose main highlights are new compile-time type analysis, enhanced error tracing, an operational Android port, and a new telephony API.

New in bigloo 3.5a (Nov 9, 2010)

  • This version improves portability on Arm/Android in particular by supporting native multi-threaded applications.
  • This version also supports new APIs and fixes many glitches of version 3.4a.

New in bigloo 3.4a (Jul 2, 2010)

  • This version improves portability by supporting two extra platforms, Arm/Android and OSGi bundles.
  • It supports new APIs and fixes many glitches in 3.3a.
  • It has been successfully installed on: x86/32, Linux 2.6, Arch Linux; x86/64, Linux 2.6, Fedora; Arm v6/v7, Linux, Maemo4/Maemo5, Android; PowerPC G3, Linux, Debian; x86/32, Windows SP2, MinGW; x86/32, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard; and x86/64, Mac OS X 10.6 SnowLeopard.

New in bigloo 3.2b (May 27, 2009)

  • An experimental .NET bytecode generator.
  • New library facilities (date, IOs, timer).
  • Improved code generation.

New in bigloo 3.2a (Jan 13, 2009)

  • A new mail API has been added wit support for Maildir, IMAP, vcard, RFC 2045, RFC 2047, and RFC 2822.
  • New compiler optimizations were implemented.
  • New system APIs were added, including getuid/setuid, os-charset, socket-option, and get-protocols.
  • New Makefiles that support parallel compilation were provided.
  • This version has been successfully installed on a range of platforms.

New in bigloo 3.1b (Sep 16, 2008)

  • A significant performance improvement was made for multi-threaded applications.
  • Performance of the IO system was improved. New APIs have been added for cryptography and multimedia.
  • New functions extend the existing APIs for things like dates, sockets, and IO.