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Chapel Public Release Goals (version 1.8.0)
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The goals of this release are as follows:

* to give the general public an opportunity to see the state and
  evolution of the Chapel implementation first-hand

* to get feedback on the Chapel language and its ongoing
  implementation (please direct to chapel_info@cray.com)

* to demonstrate Chapel's base language features

* to demonstrate Chapel's task parallel features in a multi-threaded,
  multi-locale setting

* to demonstrate Chapel's data parallel features via a combination of

  (i) a multi-threaded implementation of ranges and of non-distributed
      regular and irregular domains and arrays;

  (ii) a multi-threaded, multi-locale implementation of regular arrays
       using some standard distributions.
