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In article <4155@seti.UUCP> Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr (Xavier Leroy) writes:
>Concerning SML on a PC, I have heard about three implementations:
>
>* Micro-ML, [...]
>
>* A port of Edinburgh ML 0.35. [...]
>
>* A port of the New Jersey compiler to the 80386 PC under Windows,
>developed by Yngvi Guttesen at the Technical University of Denmark.  A
>report on this appeared in the last ML workshop, but I don't know if
>the system is distributed yet. Seems to require a high-end PC (32M).

I'm not sure if Guttesen is supporting his Windows port.  I suspect he
is not.  I've been unable to contact him.

I have ported the SML/NJ runtime system (versions 0.66 & 0.82) to
Mach386 and BSD/386, and I've rewritten quite a bit of Guttessen's
code generator.  This code will probably be incorporated into the
standard SML/NJ distribution "real soon now".  If you want to try a
"pre-alpha" release, let me know.  It may take a bit of work to get it
running on non-BSD Unix variants.

I've run it on a 25 MHz laptop PC with only 12M of memory, and the
performance is tolerable on medium-sized programs.  It does much
better on a fast 486 with lots of memory.

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Mark Leone  <mleone@cs.cmu.edu>
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213  USA