Info about ongoing work on Clean

Nick Kallen phantom@earthlink.net
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 14:57:11 -0800


>Well, we have to give priority to things.
>- Design and implemention of a distributed version of the object I/O lib


What exactly is meant by distributed in this context? Distributing
computation across multiple processors/machines?

>Extending Clean with
>- multi-parameter type constructor classes

Can you elaborate on this? Give a few short examples, how this will be
useful, etc.

>Some optimalisations in the code generation have been added (removing of
higher order
>functions, re-use of user defined uniqueness types) as well as profiling
options.

What are profiling options?

>Therefore we have decided to focus on Windows and Mac.
>We will update the Clean compiler on Linux/Elf and Sun/Solaris
>but for the time being we will not put effort in updating the I/O lib.

When can the Linux compiler be expected?