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