GOALS

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Chapel Public Release Goals (version 1.12.0)
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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 or the
  community mailing lists hosted at SourceForge)

* 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, single-locale implementation of ranges and
      irregular domains and arrays;

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

For more detailed notes on what is or is not supported in this
release, refer to the STATUS file in this directory.