diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE index 92bbaadd425f5fee021c72dff8e380f66be256d4..aabfb653b1954954817426576cb6501fc3ab3884 100644 --- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.04 + The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.06 ============================================== We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell -Compiler (GHC), version 4.04. The source distribution is freely +Compiler (GHC), version 4.06. 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 @@ -18,16 +18,33 @@ GHC's Web page lives at + What's new ============= - - GHC is now officially Open Source, see the LICENSE file in the - distribution for details. +This should be a stable release. We have not made major changes +since 4.04 to the core compiler, but we have fixed lots of bugs. +We believe that 4.06 is in a nice stable well-tested state. (Ha!) - - Rewrite rules can be specified in the source using the RULES - pragma. This is used for automatic fusion of common list functions. +Apart from that, there are the following changes - - Performance tuning: compiled programs now allocate 30% less - and run 20% faster on average compared to GHC 4.02. + - Major library reorganisation. All libraries, except the ones that + are part of the Haskell 98 *language* specification, have moved to + fptools/hslibs/. The hslibs tree is independent of GHC, shared between + GHC, Hugs, and (we hope) other Haskell implementations. + The idea is to make it easier for people to contribute and maintain + libraries. - - GHC now uses a Happy parser instead of the old yacc/lex one. + The hslibs/ tree is organised in a Java-like fashion. Details in + the new Library guide. <url please> + + Existing programs that use the -syslib flag may need to change which + syslibs they include. + + - Support for "foreign export dynamic". + + - Clean up of concurrent I/O system; in particular, I/O is now non-blocking, + except (alas) on stdout/stderr for tiresome reasons. + + - Some refinements to the exceptions mechanism <url please> + + - More performance tuning: compiled programs now allocate 10% less than 4.04 For full details see the release notes: