Wednesday, October 14, 2009

FreeMat 4.0 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of FreeMat 4.0 . This version brings major feature improvements and also changes to the internals of FreeMat. Here is a list of changes:

  • Improved Editor with integrated debugger
  • Improved Main Application UI with dockable workspace browser and command history:
  • Just In Time compiler (enabled by default)
  • Greatly improved compatibility with Matlab (over 366 compatibility tests pass)
  • Dynamic linking with BLAS (users can use custom optimized BLAS libraries)
  • Vectorized fprintf, sprintf, fscanf, sscanf functions
  • Added patch handle graphics object
  • Much faster figure drawing
  • Ability to handle huge arrays (more than 2GB) when compiled under 64 bit OS
  • Code profiler

Internal changes:

  • New array class implementation
  • Compatible type handling
  • JIT compiler. See an older post for details.
  • CMake build system

You can download the new 4.0 release as usual from our Sourceforge.net Download page.