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@@ -136,13 +136,14 @@ chance to see it.
 
 SBCL aims for but has not reached ANSI compliance.
 
 
 SBCL aims for but has not reached ANSI compliance.
 

-SBCL compiles Lisp to native code, or optionally to more-compact but
-much slower byte code.
+SBCL compiles Lisp to native code. (Unlike earlier versions of SBCL,
+byte compilation is no longer supported.)

 
 

-SBCL's garbage collector is generational and conservative.
+SBCL uses a generational conservative garbage collector for some ports,
+and a simple stop-and-copy garbage collector for other ports.

 
 SBCL includes a source level debugger, as well as the ANSI TRACE
 
 SBCL includes a source level debugger, as well as the ANSI TRACE

-facility and a rudimentary profiler.
+facility and a profiler.

 
 .SH DIFFERENCES FROM CMU CL
 
 
 .SH DIFFERENCES FROM CMU CL
 

@@ -257,12 +258,8 @@ Unlike its distinguished ancestor CMU CL, SBCL is currently on X86
 straightforward to port the CMU CL support for SPARC, or to port to
 NetBSD.
 
 straightforward to port the CMU CL support for SPARC, or to port to
 NetBSD.
 

-As of version 0.6.11, SBCL requires on the order of 16Mb to run. In
-some future version, this number could shrink significantly, since
-large parts of the system are far from execution bottlenecks and could
-reasonably be stored in compact byte compiled form. (CMU CL does this
-routinely; the only reason SBCL doesn't currently do this is a
-combination of bootstrapping technicalities and inertia.)
+As of version 0.6.13, SBCL requires on the order of 16Mb RAM to run
+on X86 systems. 

 
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 
 
 .SH ENVIRONMENT