[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.3.4
At Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:16:07 -0400, Ryan Culpepper wrote:
> mflatt:
> - added file-truncate (48e05093)
> - mach-o: handle some new load commands (a229f292)
> - mach-o: code signing fixes (1744a787)
> - scribble/latex-properties: add command-extras (17865bfa)
> - ffi/com: improve handling of type-described (79266fcf)
> - added scribble/book and scribble/report langs (09d4aa3d)
> - add _size, _ssize, _ptrdiff, etc (d46411d3)
> - add phaseless modules (899a3279)
> - improve complexity of hash-iterate-{key-value} (7a8c2ff0)
> - add 'so-mode to system-type (cdf0f6b9)
> - add interactive to slideshow (454f4c3f)
> - ffi/com repairs, including mysterx compat (6e40caa7)
I think these are all too minor to mention.
(Cross-phase persistent modules may be worth announcing in the future,
when they work better.)
> Michael Filonenko:
> - extflonums (17b80926)
> - extflounum unboxing (840fc9c6)
* Extflonums, which are 80-bit floating-point numbers, are supported
on some x86/x86_64 platforms --- including Windows, and including
platforms where Racket is compiled to use SSE instructions for
flonum arithmetic. Thanks to Michael Filonenko.