Saturday, September 03, 2005

Version 1.2 of the Alice Programming Language has been released. New Byte Code Jitter optimized internal byte code produced by jitting, which is a lot faster than non-jitted code; unlike native code jitting it is available on all platforms Improvements to Interactive Toplevel many tweaks and fixes in the GUI; new features include type hints, and native look&feel on Windows (thanks to Gtk Wimp theme) Overhaul of Gecode Constraint Library many, many bug fixes in Gecode implementation and binding; simplified interface to set constraints Overhaul of Gtk Graphics Library re-structured into submodules with proper dynamic type checking; upgraded to Gtk 2.6, including bindings to GLib, Pango, and Atk Regular Expression Library a simple binding to the GNU Regex library is now included 64 Bit Support Alice can now support 64 bit architectures; a first package is available for Debian AMD 64 Bug Fixes lots of bug fixes and minor improvements all over the place 11:50:47 AM