[plt-dev] Release Announcement for v4.2.5

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 1 11:30:14 EDT 2010

Can we please eliminate the word 'true' from this first line?


On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Robby Findler wrote:

> Uhh... okay:
>
>  - PLT Scheme now supports true multi-core parallelism via futures.
> Futures create tasks that run in parallel, as long as the tasks stay
> in the "fast path" of the runtime system. For more information, see:
>
>  http://docs.plt-scheme.org/guide/performance.html?q=future#(part._effective-futures)
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>  
> wrote:
>> At Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:56:35 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>> Matthew:
>>>   - Futures are on by default
>>>   - wrap each top-level form in a module with a prompt (if visible
>>>     enough)
>>>   - basic set library
>>>   - things from r18375, if visible enough
>>>   - scribble/jfp
>>
>> Only futures deserve a bullet I think. Maybe Robby wants to write it?
>>
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