[m-rev.] diff: announce 0.13 release on webpage

Peter Wang wangp at students.csse.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Sep 15 15:41:01 AEST 2006


On 2006-09-15, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> +Note: please do not be alarmed by the fact that this software has some 
> bugs.
> +ALL useful software has bugs.  During the development of the Mercury
> +implementation we have found bugs in gcc, as, ld, the dynamic loader,
> +and even the OS kernel.  We hope that by listing the known outstanding bugs
> +here we are doing our users a service.  It would be disappointing if
> +anyone were to infer the wrong thing from it.

In my opinion this paragraph is unnecessary.  I suggest deleting at
least the second sentence -- it should still get the point across
without sounding bitchy.

> +<li>We have implemented an optimization, --tuple, that can replace several
> +  arguments that are usually passed to predicates together with a single
> +  tuple. This can reduce parameter passing overheads.

Leave that out, please ;-)

Peter
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