0.9.18.2: Win32 exceptions

[sbcl.git] / CREDITS

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@@ -559,7 +559,8 @@ Paul Dietz:
 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
@@ -588,7 +589,9 @@ Bruno Haible:
   primordial CMUCL.
 
 Cyrus Harmon:
-  He fixed many PPC FFI and callback bugs.
+  He fixed many PPC FFI and callback bugs.  He ported Raymond Toy's
+  work on the generational garbage collector for PPC to Linux, finding
+  and fixing other SBCL bugs in the process.
 
 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
@@ -596,6 +599,12 @@ Matthias Hoelzl:
 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 speeds, the interpreter-based evaluator
+  and the IR2-based single-stepper.
+
 Espen S Johnsen:
   He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
 
@@ -604,6 +613,11 @@ Teemu Kalvas:
   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.
+
 Frederik Kuivinen:
   He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
 
@@ -671,6 +685,9 @@ William ("Bill") Newman:
   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.
+
 Patrik Nordebo:
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
@@ -682,6 +699,9 @@ Luís Oliveira:
 Scott Parish:
   He ported SBCL to OpenBSD-with-ELF.
 
+Timothy Ritchey:
+  He implemented SB-BSD-SOCKETS support for the win32 port.
+
 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
@@ -722,12 +742,11 @@ Nikodemus Siivola:
   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