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December 19, 2007

Parrot 0.5.1 Released

Posted: 2007-12-19 21:35:56
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Parrot 0.5.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: documentation updates; a redesign of the Parrot Compiler Toolkit; NQP updates; the reimplementation of the perl6, abc, punie and pynie language implementations using PCT and NQP; new 'die', 'addhandler' and 'copy' opcodes; bug fixes; dead code removal; and other changes.