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+changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12:
+ * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing
+ unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously,
+ SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a
+ filename to parse into a directory pathname.
+ * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments
+ to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows
+ non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen)
+ * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for
+ strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully
+ known at compile-time.
+ * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate
+ a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions
+ are also faster than before when the input string has been declared
+ as a simple-string.
+ * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster.
+ * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing
+ long lines.
+ * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators
+ (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
+ on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
+ * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream
+ with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error.
+ * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper
+ lists in safe code.
+ * bug fix: some sequence functions elided bounds checking when
+ SPEED > SAFETY.
+ * bug fix: too liberal weakening of union-type checks when SPEED >
+ SAFETY.
+ * bug fix: more bogus fixnum declarations in ROOM implementation
+ have been fixed.
+
changes in sbcl-1.0.12 relative to sbcl-1.0.11:
+ * new feature: MAKE-HASH-TABLE now experimentally accepts a
+ :SYNCHRONIZED argument, which makes the hash-table safe for
+ concurrent accesses (but not iteration.) See also:
+ SB-EXT:WITH-LOCKED-HASH-TABLE, and
+ SB-EXT:HASH-TABLE-SYNCHRONIZED-P.
+ * optimization: CONCATENATE on strings is an order of magnitue faster
+ in code compiled with (> SPEED SPACE).
+ * optimization: SUBSEQ is ~50% faster on lists.
+ * bug fix: bug 417 fixed -- source location reporting is now more robust.
+ * bug fix: SUBSEQ on a list will now correctly signal an error if if
+ END is smaller then START.
+ * bug fix: SB-PROFILE will no longer report extra consing for nested
+ calls to profiled functions.
+ * bug fix: ROOM implementation had bogus fixnum declarations which
+ could cause type-errors when calling ROOM on large images.
+ * bug fix: if file compilation is aborted, the partial fasl is now
+ deleted, and COMPILE-FILE returns NIL as the primary value.
+ * bug fix: number of thread safety issues relating to SBCL's internal
+ hash-table usage have been fixed.
* bug fix: SB-SYS:WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS could cause garbage values to
be returned from its body when the values were being returned
using unknown-values return convection and the W-P-O was wrapped