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[sbcl.git] / CREDITS

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@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ Daniel Barlow:
   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
+  (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.
@@ -540,15 +540,20 @@ Alexey Dejneka:
   tremendous amount of work on the compiler in particular, fixing
   bugs and refactoring.
 
-Paul Dietz
-  He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite for the
-  requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard.  Already, at the
-  halfway stage, it has caught hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and provided
-  simple test cases for them.
+Paul Dietz:
+  He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite
+  for the requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Already, at
+  the halfway stage, it has caught hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and
+  provided simple test cases for them. His random crash tester has
+  caught an old deep problem in the implementation of the stack
+  analysis phase in the compiler.
 
-Miles Egan
+Brian Downing:
+  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.
+
+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
@@ -559,6 +564,11 @@ Nathan Froyd:
   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.
 
@@ -594,14 +604,20 @@ Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 Brian Mastenbrook:
-  He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X.  He found a way to
-  overcome binary compatibility issues between different versions of
-  dlcompat on Darwin.
+  He contributed to and extensively maintained the port of SBCL to
+  MacOS X. His contributions include overcoming binary compatibility
+  issues between different versions of dlcompat on Darwin, other 
+  linker fixes, and signal handler bugfixes.
 
 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 
+Perry E. Metzger:
+  He ported SBCL to NetBSD with newer signals, building on the
+  work of Valtteri Vuorikoski.  He also provided various cleanups to
+  the C runtime.
+
 Gerd Moellman:
   He has made many cleanups and improvements, small and large, in
   CMU CL (mostly in PCL), which we have gratefully ported to SBCL.  Of
@@ -621,6 +637,9 @@ Patrik Nordebo:
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 
+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
@@ -641,6 +660,20 @@ 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.
 
+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,
+  and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs besides.
+
+Juho Snellman:
+  He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
+  function on strings, and removal of unneccessary bounds checks.
+
 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
   stream types and operations on them.
@@ -674,10 +707,12 @@ Raymond Wiker:
 
 INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
 
+VJA  Vincent Arkesteijn
 MNA  Martin Atzmueller
 DB   Daniel Barlow (also "dan")
 DTC  Douglas Crosher
 APD  Alexey Dejneka
+PFD  Paul F. Dietz
 NJF  Nathan Froyd
 AL   Arthur Lemmens
 RAM  Robert MacLachlan