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 and implemented the
+ original timer facility on which SBCL's timers are based.
+
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.
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.
He added support for SunOS on x86 processors.
ITA Software:
- They hired Juho Snellman as a consultant to work on improvements to
+ 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 speeds, the interpreter-based evaluator
- and the IR2-based single-stepper.
+ 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.
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.
rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
NIIMI Satoshi:
- He contributed a number of fixes to the FreeBSD port.
+ 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
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 a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements to
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