0.8.13.78: Birds of Feather

[sbcl.git] / CREDITS

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@@ -549,11 +549,13 @@ Paul Dietz:
   analysis phase in the compiler.
 
 Brian Downing:
   analysis phase in the compiler.
 
 Brian Downing:

-  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.
+  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.  He
+  found and fixed the cause of backtraces failing for undefined
+  functions and assembly routines.

 
 Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
 
 Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other

-  (which?) platforms
+  (which?) platforms.

 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal

@@ -564,6 +566,11 @@ Nathan Froyd:
   can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from
   the codebase.)
 
   can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from
   the codebase.)
 

+Bruno Haible:
+  He devised an accurate continued-fraction-based implementation of
+  RATIONALIZE, replacing a less-accurate version inherited from
+  primordial CMUCL.
+

 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
 
 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
 

@@ -632,6 +639,9 @@ Patrik Nordebo:
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 

+Scott Parish:
+  He ported SBCL to OpenBSD-with-ELF.
+

 Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
   a number of MOP-related bug reports.  He also creates the official
 Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
   a number of MOP-related bug reports.  He also creates the official

@@ -652,13 +662,23 @@ Stig Erik Sandoe:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
   which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
 
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
   which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
 

+Rudi Schlatte:
+  He ported Paul Foley's simple-streams implementation from cmucl,
+  converted the sbcl manual to Texinfo and wrote a documentation
+  string extractor that keeps function documentation in the manual
+  current.
+

 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,

-  and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs besides.
+  implemented package locks, 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.
+  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.

 
 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

@@ -705,5 +725,6 @@ RAM  Robert MacLachlan
 PRM  Pierre Mai
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PRM  Pierre Mai
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes

+NS   Nikodemus Siivola

 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski