[plt-dev] Release Announcement for v4.2.5

Whoops.

- PLT now supports 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 9:30 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> Can we please eliminate the word 'true' from this first line?
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> On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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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