asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets, sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix
contrib packages.
+Zach Beane:
+ He provided a number of additions to SB-POSIX, implemented the
+ original timer facility on which SBCL's timers are based. and also
+ contributed the :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS support for SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE.
+
James Bielman:
- He assisted in work on the port to the Windows operating system.
+ He assisted in work on the port to the Windows operating system, and
+ was instrumental in :EXECUTABLE support for SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE.
Alastair Bridgewater:
He contributed a port of the system to the Windows operating system.
CL:DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO, and a generalization of the type system's
handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+Larry D'Anna:
+ He provided several parts of SB-CLTL2 environment access, and has
+ also worked on bugs in the IR2 conversion stage of the compiler.
+
Alexey Dejneka:
He fixed many, many bugs on various themes, and has done a
tremendous amount of work on the compiler in particular, fixing
Brian Downing:
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.
+ functions and assembly routines. He wrote the core of SBCL's
+ alternative interpreter-based EVAL.
Miles Egan:
He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
(which?) platforms.
+Helmut Eller:
+ A lot of the code in the SB-INTROSPECT and SB-COVER contrib modules
+ was originally written by him for Slime/Swank.
+
Lutz Euler:
He made a large number of improvements to the x86-64 disassembler.
Daisuke Homma:
He added support for SunOS on x86 processors.
+ITA Software:
+ They hired Juho Snellman as a consultant to work on improvements to
+ SBCL, to be released into the public domain. The work they've funded
+ includes faster compilation, various improvements to the statistical
+ profiler, the SB-COVER code coverage tool, the interpreter-based
+ evaluator and the IR2-based single-stepper.
+
Espen S Johnsen:
He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
character database, restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization and
developing external format support.
+Yaroslav Kavenchuk:
+ He implemented several missing features and fixed many bugs in
+ the win32 port. He also worked on external-format support for
+ SB-ALIEN.
+
+Richard M Kreyter:
+ He added documentation support for CLOS slot readers and writers,
+ provided several SB-POSIX and NetBSD patches, and cleaned up
+ several of the filesystem/pathname interfaces.
+
Frederik Kuivinen:
He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
under CLISP.
+Gabor Melis:
+ He mainly worked on robustness related to signal handling, threads,
+ timers with small excursions to constraint propagation, weak hash
+ tables (based on CMUCL code) and optimizing x86/x86-64 calling
+ convention.
+
Perry E. Metzger:
He ported SBCL to NetBSD with newer signals, building on the
work of Valtteri Vuorikoski. He also provided various cleanups to
updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
+NIIMI Satoshi:
+ He contributed a number of fixes to the FreeBSD port, implemented
+ some external-formats and JOIN-THREAD, and also worked on
+ the :EXECUTABLE support.
+
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.
+Timothy Ritchey:
+ He implemented SB-BSD-SOCKETS support for the win32 port.
+
+Tobias Rittweiler
+ He has made several contributions relating to source locations,
+ pretty printing, SB-INTROSPECT, and the reader.
+
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
Debian packages of SBCL.
+Joshua Ross:
+ He fixed some bugs relating to foreign calls and callbacks on the
+ Linux PowerPC platform.
+
Christophe Rhodes:
He ported SBCL to SPARC (based on the CMUCL backend), made various
port-related and SPARC-related changes (like *BACKEND-SUBFEATURES*),
Nikodemus Siivola:
He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
implemented package locks, ported the linkage-table code from CMUCL,
- reimplemented STEP, and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs
- besides.
+ reimplemented STEP, implemented the compare-and-swap interface, and
+ has fixed many bugs besides.
Juho Snellman:
- He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
- 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.
+ He provided a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements to
+ the compiler, the standard library functions, and to the garbage
+ collector. 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
in the system, but did to a large extent influence the support which
finally did get merged.)
+Robert Swindells:
+ He ported SBCL to NetBSD/Sparc.
+
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, including his Sparc port of linkage-table.
+Larry Valkama:
+ He resurrected the HPUX port, and worked on the HPPA backend in
+ general.
+
Peter Van Eynde:
He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
(clocc ansi-test) which can be used on SBCL, provided a slew of
INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
-VJA Vincent Arkesteijn
-MNA Martin Atzmueller
-DB Daniel Barlow (also "dan")
-DTC Douglas Crosher
+AB Alastair Bridgewater
+AL Arthur Lemmens
APD Alexey Dejneka
-PFD Paul F. Dietz
-NJF Nathan Froyd
CLH Cyrus Harmon
-AL Arthur Lemmens
+CSR Christophe Rhodes
+DB Daniel Barlow (also "dan")
DFL David Lichteblau
-RAM Robert MacLachlan
-PRM Pierre Mai
+DTC Douglas Crosher
+JES Juho Snellman
+JRXR Joshua Ross
+LAV Larry Valkama
MG Gabor Melis
-WHN William ("Bill") Newman
-CSR Christophe Rhodes
-THS Thiemo Seufer
+MNA Martin Atzmueller
+NJF Nathan Froyd
NS Nikodemus Siivola
-JES Juho Snellman
+PFD Paul F. Dietz
+PRM Pierre Mai
PVE Peter Van Eynde
PW Paul Werkowski
+RAM Robert MacLachlan
+TCR Tobias Rittweiler
+THS Thiemo Seufer
+VJA Vincent Arkesteijn
+WHN William ("Bill") Newman