[Caml-list] New release of core.

[Caml-list] New release of core.

[Till Varoquaux]

We are pleased to announce the third major release of Jane street's core 
library and support libraries (type-conv, sexplib,bin-prot and 
fieldslib). Due to our development process we are not able to provide a 
detailed changelog because this is very active codebase and there have 
been a lot of improvements and added features.

The changes include:
-> Everything is now packaged with oasis
-> Type-conv does not require the user to set type_conv_path anymore (it 
can use the filename).
-> Core has a new highly optimized version of Hashtables which is about 
as space and time efficient as (ocaml's) Hashtbl but degrades gracefully 
in the presence of hash collisions.
-> A lot of the functions in the List modules have been optimized 
(map,@...). They are now about as fast as the ones in the  standard 
library but are also tail recursive.

But wait there's more to come!

This is a beta release;
We are hoping to carve out a release soon that will work on ocaml 3.12; 
include support for generating the ocamldocs automatically and bundle 
core_extended.

All the packages are available on:
http://www.janestreet.com/ocaml <http://www.janestreet.com/ocaml>

We would love to hear your feedback and bug reports at:
opensource@janestcapital.com <mailto:opensource@janestcapital.com>

All of the released libraries are licensed under the 
LGPL-plus-linking-exception.

I would also like to thank Sylvain le Gall, Markus Mottl, Nicolas 
Pouillard and Xavier Clerc for their help.

Cheers,
Till