Parrot 0.8.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.
This release includes: the expansion of float precision from 6 significant digits to 15, the auto-promotion of large integers in PIR to avoid precision loss, improved precision of complex square root, support for exception handlers registering the types of exceptions they catch, updates to the Cardinal implementation of Ruby, updates to the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6, new and updated examples, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.
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