0.8.21.39: implement optimization #25

[sbcl.git] / CREDITS

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@@ -509,13 +509,14 @@ Martin Atzmueller:
 Daniel Barlow:
   His contributions have included support for shared object loading
   (from CMUCL), the Cheney GC for non-x86 ports (from CMUCL), Alpha
 Daniel Barlow:
   His contributions have included support for shared object loading
   (from CMUCL), the Cheney GC for non-x86 ports (from CMUCL), Alpha

-  and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new)
-  and native threads support for x86 Linux (new).  He also refactored
-  the garbage collectors for understandability, wrote code
-  (e.g. grovel-headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find
-  machine-dependent and OS-dependent constants automatically, and was
-  original author of the asdf, asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets,
-  sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix contrib packages.
+  and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new),
+  native threads support for x86 Linux (new), and the initial x86-64
+  backend (new).  He also refactored the garbage collectors for
+  understandability, wrote code (e.g. grovel-headers.c and
+  stat_wrapper stuff) to find machine-dependent and OS-dependent
+  constants automatically, and was original author of the asdf,
+  asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets, sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix
+  contrib packages.

 
 Robert E. Brown:
   He has reported various bugs and submitted several patches, 
 
 Robert E. Brown:
   He has reported various bugs and submitted several patches, 

@@ -557,6 +558,14 @@ Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
   (which?) platforms.
 
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
   (which?) platforms.
 

+Lutz Euler:
+  He made a large number of improvements to the x86-64 disassembler.
+
+Andreas Fuchs:
+  He provides infrastructure for monitoring build and performance
+  regressions of SBCL.  He assisted with the integration of the
+  Unicode work.
+

 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
   cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
   cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for

@@ -577,6 +586,11 @@ Matthias Hoelzl:
 Espen S Johnsen:
   He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
 
 Espen S Johnsen:
   He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
 

+Teemu Kalvas:
+  He worked on Unicode support for SBCL, including parsing the Unicode
+  character database, restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization and
+  developing external format support.
+

 Frederik Kuivinen:
   He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
 
 Frederik Kuivinen:
   He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
 

@@ -600,7 +614,8 @@ Eric Marsden:
   Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported
   to SBCL.  He also maintains the cl-benchmark package, which gives
   us some idea of how our performance changes compared to earlier
   Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported
   to SBCL.  He also maintains the cl-benchmark package, which gives
   us some idea of how our performance changes compared to earlier

-  releases and to other implementations.
+  releases and to other implementations.  He assisted in development
+  of Unicode support for SBCL.

 
 Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.

@@ -627,6 +642,10 @@ Gerd Moellman:
   faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
   less buggy.
 
   faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
   less buggy.
 

+Timothy Moore:
+  He designed and implemented the original CMUCL linkage-table, on
+  which the SBCL implementation thereof is based.
+

 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the
 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the

@@ -668,25 +687,33 @@ Rudi Schlatte:
   string extractor that keeps function documentation in the manual
   current.
 
   string extractor that keeps function documentation in the manual
   current.
 

+Julian Squires:
+  He worked on Unicode support for the PowerPC platform.
+

 Nikodemus Siivola:
   He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
 Nikodemus Siivola:
   He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,

-  implemented package locks, and has fixed many (stream-related and 
-  other) bugs besides.
+  implemented package locks, ported the linkage-table code from CMUCL,
+  reimplemented STEP, and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs 
+  besides.

 
 Juho Snellman:
   He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
 
 Juho Snellman:
   He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash

-  function on strings, and removal of unneccessary bounds checks.  He
-  ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written by Gerd
-  Moellmann for CMU CL.
+  function on strings, removal of unneccessary bounds checks, and
+  multiple improvements to performance of common operations on
+  bignums.  He ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written by
+  Gerd Moellmann for CMU CL.  He completed the work on the x86-64 port
+  of SBCL.

 
 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
 
 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and

-  stream types and operations on them.
+  stream types and operations on them.  (These versions did not end up
+  in the system, but did to a large extent influence the support which
+  finally did get merged.)

 
 Raymond Toy:
   He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
   floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been
 
 Raymond Toy:
   He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
   floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been

-  ported to SBCL.
+  ported to SBCL, including his Sparc port of linkage-table.

 
 Peter Van Eynde:
   He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
 
 Peter Van Eynde:
   He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite

@@ -703,6 +730,9 @@ Colin Walters:
   cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing list, was the inspiration for similar MAP
   code added in sbcl-0.6.8.
 
   cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing list, was the inspiration for similar MAP
   code added in sbcl-0.6.8.
 

+Cheuksan Edward Wang:
+  He assisted in debugging the SBCL x86-64 backend.
+

 Raymond Wiker:
   He ported sbcl-0.6.3 back to FreeBSD, restoring the ancestral
   CMU CL support for FreeBSD and updating it for the changes made
 Raymond Wiker:
   He ported sbcl-0.6.3 back to FreeBSD, restoring the ancestral
   CMU CL support for FreeBSD and updating it for the changes made