1.0.6.39: COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION micro-optimization

[sbcl.git] / CREDITS

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@@ -519,6 +519,10 @@ Daniel Barlow:
   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.
 
@@ -559,12 +563,17 @@ 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
   (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.
 
@@ -598,6 +607,13 @@ 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, 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.
 
@@ -700,6 +716,10 @@ Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   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*),
@@ -735,12 +755,11 @@ 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
@@ -780,23 +799,25 @@ 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
+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
 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
+THS  Thiemo Seufer
+VJA  Vincent Arkesteijn
+WHN  William ("Bill") Newman