Barak.Pearlmutter@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (01/02/89)
Some source files were inadvertently omitted from the Oaklisp distribution tar file. These problems should be corrected as of noon on Monday Jan 2. I apologize to those who were inconvenienced by this problem. If you FTPed the distribution already and just want some particular files, you should be able to find them in oak/src/release/mac/, which is publically accessible. Below I repeat the original announcement, for your FTP convenience. Oh, and watch the symbolic links. "CD ~" will get you back to the ftp guest home directory. ------ A new release of Oaklisp is available. There are some tiny bug fixes, the emulator should compile properly on machines with 16 bit int C compilers, and bignums, complexes and rationals are fully supported. No flonums, but you can fake them with rationals. The bignums are surprisingly fast, about a factor of 6 slower than T 3.1 at naive factorial of 100. An O((log n)^1.59) algorithm is used for multiplying pairs of really large integers. Not O(log n) Schonhage-Strassen, but at least it's not O((log n)^2). The distribution can be FTPed from host DOGHEN.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU (aka 128.2.222.37), user "anonymous", file "oak/release.tar.Z". Be sure to use binary mode. Bug fixes and reports are appreciated, particularly with regard to portability to odd architectures. A 36 or 48 bit word port would be nice. Requests for tapes from people without FTP will be denied. Oaklisp is unsupported, but Kevin and I will consult.