[gambit-list] [ANN] Gambit v4.8.6 released

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Nov 17 09:23:57 EST 2016


It was important to do a release because some new inlined primitives were added to the compiler for parallel processing (##current-processor, etc), and these have to be in place for a smooth transition to the parallel Gambit.  I aim for version 5 of Gambit to include parallelism support that is publicly usable.  Currently a bit of black magic and alignment of the planets are needed to run trully concurrent Scheme threads.

Marc

> On Nov 17, 2016, at 9:09 AM, Adam <adam.mlmb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yey!
> 
> Does this release have a particular significance feature-wise or otherwise?
> 
> 2016-11-17 22:04 GMT+08:00 Logiciel Gambit <gambit at iro.umontreal.ca>:
> Gambit v4.8.6 is now available.
> 
> Changelog: https://github.com/feeley/gambit/commits
> 
> The sources and prebuilt distributions can be obtained from
> the Gambit web site by visiting one of the following links.
> 
> sources:
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/source/gambit-v4_8_6.tgz (for typical users)
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/source/gambit-v4_8_6-devel.tgz (for developers)
> 
> prebuilt:
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/prebuilt/gambit-v4_8_6-macosx-intel32.dmg
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/prebuilt/gambit-v4_8_6-macosx-intel64.dmg
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/prebuilt/gambit-v4_8_6-windows-mingw32.exe
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/prebuilt/gambit-v4_8_6-windows-mingw64.exe
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/prebuilt/gambit-v4_8_6-windows-visualc32.exe
>   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.8/prebuilt/gambit-v4_8_6-windows-visualc64.exe
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