X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FANNOUNCE;h=38ae768cdca8158586aae518325256126bcb3cc5;hb=8f9cbd2df7bdcbd7a91cdd80246f52dd3a80176a;hp=67e0f87cf8cdb496a4afa7d66edc6c2256c4c5d0;hpb=f37d53ba435a7f9a3bf9b69a6adc13c5f7ff8dc9;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE index 67e0f87..38ae768 100644 --- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.01 + The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.02 ============================================== We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell -Compiler (GHC), version 3.01. The source distribution is freely +Compiler (GHC), version 3.02. The source distribution is freely available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below. Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the @@ -14,16 +14,15 @@ related information is available from the Haskell home page at + What's new ============= -GHC 3.01 is a source-only release. Major news items: +GHC 3.02 is a source-only release. Major news items: - * Lots of bug-fixes for the mult-parameter type class support. + * A new specialiser, + * A new unsafeCoerce# primitive. + * A NOINLINE pragma. + * Many bugs fixed, including several performance-related ones, - * Re-organisation of libraries, and hslibs nuked. (see the - release notes/documentation for the full story). - - * The User's Guide is now in SGML, and the literate tools are - no longer required to format any of the documentation in the - tree, hence we removed them from the distribution. +GHC 3.02 produces the fastest code since 0.29, but there's still +plenty of tuning to do. + Mailing lists ================ @@ -80,6 +79,6 @@ Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work; an on-line version can be found at - http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.01/installation_guide/installing_toc.html + http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.02/installation_guide/installing_toc.html EOF