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Thursday, December 23, 2004 |
Version 1.0 of the Alice Programming Language has been released. From the announcement, highlights of the release are:
SEAM Virtual Machine
A newly designed VM with support for just-in-time compilation
improves execution speed by a factor of up to 5 compared to
previous versions. Mozart is no longer required to run Alice.
GECODE Constraint Library
Constraints are now based on Gecode, an up-coming, cutting-edge
constraint library that is more than 10 times faster than the
previous implementation and features a significant number of
new, state-of-the-art constraints.
Graphical Tools
Inspector and Explorer have been reimplemented, providing
more functionality and better looks.
Component Model Overhaul
The component system has been cleaned up and is now more
flexible. Components are fully dynamic.
Standard Library
Now contains all mandatory modules of the Standard ML Basis.
Alice ML is a mostly conservative extension of Standard ML
featuring:
Futures
selective laziness and light-weight concurrency with
implicit dataflow synchronisation
Higher-order modules
higher-order functors and abstract signatures
Packages
dynamically typed ML modules as first-class values
Pickling
type-safe, generic & platform-independent marshalling,
including code, types and full modules
Components
type-safe lazy dynamic linking across the Internet
Distribution
type-safe remote functions and network mobility
Constraints
constraint propagation and programmable search for
solving hard combinatorical problems
Virtual Machine
portable implementation with support for just-in-time
compilation
Interactive tools
graphical browsers for data structures and search spaces
For an overview of the Alice language have a look at the short tour.
10:22:09 AM
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© Copyright 2005 Chris Double.
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