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Parrot 1.3.0 Released
Platforms :: Parrot
Parrot 1.3.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.
This release includes: IO system optimizations, fixes to the inheritance hierarchy of FileHandle and Socket PMC types, a cleanup and refactoring of the GC internals, PMC class manipulations that use type numbers instead of string names, memory leak fixes, the addition of the root_new opcode, documentation updates, updates to the OpenGL library, bug fixes, and other changes.
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