From d72818e3a390a7e887e18568e82b26ba99214717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Araq Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:42:31 +0200 Subject: updated news.txt --- web/news.txt | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'web') diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt index acf193088..3d962172f 100644 --- a/web/news.txt +++ b/web/news.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ News 2014-10-19 Nimrod version 0.9.6 released ======================================== -**Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language has been renamed to +**Note: 0.9.6 is the last release of Nimrod. The language is being renamed to Nim. Nim slightly breaks compatibility.** This is a maintenance release. The upcoming 0.10.0 release has @@ -37,13 +37,20 @@ Changes affecting backwards compatibility will disappear soon! +Compiler improvements +--------------------- + +- Multi method dispatching performance has been improved by a factor of 10x for + pathological cases. + + Language Additions ------------------ -- This version introduces the new ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used +- This version introduces the ``deprecated`` pragma statement that is used to handle the upcoming massive amount of symbol renames. -- ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that have a return value. It then returns a flow - variable of the wrapped return type. +- ``spawn`` can now wrap proc that has a return value. It then returns a data + flow variable of the wrapped return type. Library Additions -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0