We are pleased to announce a new release of MLton, the whole-program
optimizing compiler for Standard ML.  MLton runs on X86 machines with
Linux.  MLton has the following features.

   + Generates standalone executables with good runtime performance
   + SML 97 compliant, with a mostly complete basis library
   + Fast IntInf based on the GNU multiprecision library (gmp)
   + Fast C FFI
   + Profiling
   + Libraries for continuations, interval timers, random numbers,
       resource limits, resource usage, signal handlers, sockets, system
       logging, threads, and heap save and restore

For more information, go to the MLton home page. 

	http://www.sourcelight.com/MLton/

Send comments, questions, and bug reports to MLton@sourcelight.com.

doc directory contents:
	CHANGES			changelog
	HTML/			html user guide
	README			this file
	cmcat.sml		a utility for producing whole programs in SML/NJ
	examples/		example SML programs
	license/		license information
	user-guide.ps.gz	postscript user guide
