Squeak 2.3 news?
Dan Ingalls
DanI at wdi.disney.com
Sun Jan 3 08:23:35 UTC 1999
Dave (and all) -
>I recall reading 2 weeks or so ago that a production release of 2.3 was due
>within a few days. I was wondering if I missed a later announcement or did
>the holidays intervene?
Yes and no.
Yes, the holidays intervened.
No, that isn't the only reason.
We didn't feel a lot of time pressure on this release, so I elected to drag it in favor of including several desirable features.
The normal 2.3 Interpreter will be about 30% faster.
The Balloon graphics engine is substantially updated.
Lots of Morphic and scripting features have been added or improved.
Ian Piumarta is nearly done with a Model A (translation to portable threaded code) Jitter II plug-in accelerator.
Ian plans to wrap up his work within the coming week, and I will turn around the final release of 2.3 as soon therafter as possible.
I hope you will find Squeak 2.3 to have been worth the wait. I'm particularly happy that we have managed to keep it backward compatible, and that the new plug-in interface will allow future enhancements to Jitter independent of the normal Squeak release schedule (if you can call it that ;-).
- Dan (for The Squeak Team)
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