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"The Sangihe hanging parrot (Loriculus catamene) is a small (length: 12-13.5 cm) parrot endemic to the small island of Sangihe, north of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
This is an arboreal parrot. It is predominantly green, with a red throat patch, rump, elongated uppertail-coverts and tip of tail.
In 2009 this parrot was downlisted from Endangered to Near Threatened because although it has a very small range within which there has been extensive forest loss and fragmentation, it apparently remains common in degraded and cultivated habitats and there is no evidence of a continuing decline. The current population is estimated at between 10000 and 46000 individuals."
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangihe_hanging_parrot
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 7.9.0, also known as "Sangihe hanging parrot".
Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 7.9.0 News:
- Core
+ StringBuilder.clone and ResizablePMCArray write barrier optimizations.
1.14% faster, GH #1123
+ More StringBuilder optimizations with substr, set_pmc, push_pmc,
i_concatenate, and do less overallocation. <1% faster. GH #1123
+ Support -D1 GC stats with --ccflags=-DMEMORY_DEBUG for --gc=ms
+ Added a Parrot_{un,}block_GC_move API for the 2 string compacting
collectors ms and ms2, which are ~20% faster.
+ Fixed a --gc=ms segv in Parrot_io_write_s GH #1196
+ Fixed --gc=inf string header allocation and failing tests
+ const/ARGIN all read-only IO api arguments
+ Deprecated ListChunk GC API and src/list.c GH #1179
- Build
+ --optimize: Replace -O2 from perl5 with -O3 on clang or gcc. GH #1185
5% faster
+ Fixed make clean realclean and install which sometimes forgot pmc_default.h
GH #1194, GH #1206
- Tests
+ Use the faster travis docker infrastructure without sudo
