Parrot 0.1.0 Released

Parrot 0.1.0 "Leaping Kakapo" Released!

The Parrot team proudly presents the Parrot 0.1.0 leap release. It
provides some milestones like objects and multi-threading1[1] and
supports many more platforms.

After some pause you can grab it from
<http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.1.0.tar.gz> or
just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at
<http://dev.perl.org/cvs/>.

Turn your web browser towards <http://www.parrotcode.org/> for more
information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!
leo

[1] The list of changes includes:

  - "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... objects!"
  - Huge documentation overhaul
  - More supported platforms, s. PLATFORMS
  - Basic thread support for pthread based architectures
  - Basic event handling for timers and signals including:
  - PASM callbacks for NCI (native C) functions.
  - Improved platform configuration
  - COW stacks now working, stacks code redone
  - Structure handling vastly improved
  - Random PMC and rand primitives
  - Better subroutine call syntax in PIR
  - Make PIR subroutines compliant with pdd03
  - Improved profiling (DOD, GC timings)
  - Hash code improvements, incl. random key order support
  - Experimental freeze/thaw code for some PMC types
  - IO improvements for buffered layer and Win32
  - String iterators
  - String bitwise vtables
  - Many new opcodes
  - Suppport for JIT, where malloced memory isn't executable
  - Priority DOD scheme for objects that need timely destruction
  - Improved byte code loading (e.g. onLoad functions)
  - Language updates: forth, Perl6/P6C, m4
  - Libraries: Getopt_Long, SDL, Dumper, Sort
  - new JAPH examples
  - Unified imcc and parrot test handling
  - Many new tests (make test reports 1386 tests)
  - Numerous bug fixes

• Parrot 0.1.0 Released by Leopold Toetsch