The CMU CL garbage collector was credited to "Christopher Hoover,
Rob MacLachlan, Dave McDonald, et al." in the CMU CL code/gc.lisp file,
with some extra code for the MIPS port credited to Christopher Hoover
-alone.
+alone. The credits on the original "gc.c", "Stop and Copy GC based
+on Cheney's algorithm", said "written by Christopher Hoover".
Guy Steele wrote the original character functions
code/char.lisp
Also, Christopher Hoover and William Lott wrote compiler/generic/vm-macs.lisp
to centralize information about machine-dependent macros and constants.
-Sean Hallgren converted compiler/generic/primtype.lisp for the Alpha.
+Sean Hallgren is credited with most of the Alpha backend. Julian
+Dolby created the CMU CL Alpha/linux port. Douglas Crosher added
+complex-float support.
The CMU CL machine-independent disassembler (compiler/disassem.lisp)
was written by Miles Bader.
(Note: (1) This is probably incomplete, since there's no systematic
procedure for updating it. (2) Some more details are available in the
NEWS file, in the project's CVS change logs, and in the archives of
-the sbcl-devel mailing list.)
+the sbcl-devel mailing list. (3) In this, as in other parts of SBCL,
+patches are welcome. Don't be shy.)
Martin Atzmueller:
He reported many bugs, fixed many bugs, ported various fixes
from CMU CL, and helped clean up various stale bug data. (He has
been unusually energetic at this. As of sbcl-0.6.9.10, the
- total number of bugs involved likely exceeds 100.)
+ total number of bugs involved likely exceeded 100. Since then,
+ I've lost count. See the CVS logs.)
Daniel Barlow:
- He contributed sblisp.lisp, a set of patches to make SBCL
- play nicely with ILISP. (Those patches have since disappeared from the
- SBCL distribution because ILISP has since been patched to play nicely
- with SBCL.) He also figured out how to get the CMU CL dynamic object
- file loading code to work under SBCL.
+ He made SBCL play nicely with ILISP. He figured out how to get the
+ CMU CL dynamic object file loading code to work under SBCL. He
+ ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL. He wrote
+ code (e.g. grovel_headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle
+ machine-dependence and OS-dependence automatically, reducing
+ the amount of hand-tweaking required to keep ports synchronized.
+ He's also provided support for SBCL (as well as for free
+ Common Lisp in general) through his CLiki website.
Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
including the implementation of EQUALP hash tables for CMU CL;
then agreed to release the EQUALP code into the public domain,
- giving SBCL (and CMU CL) EQUALP hash tables.
+ giving SBCL (and CMU CL) its EQUALP hash tables.
Douglas Crosher:
He continued to improve CMU CL after SBCL forked from it, creating
many patches which were directly applicable to SBCL. Notable examples
include fixes for various compiler bugs, and a generalization
of the type system's handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style
- (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+ (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+
+Alexey Dejneka:
+ He has fixed many, many bugs. There's no single summary theme, but
+ he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and it appears
+ that a lot of his fixes there and elsewhere reflect systematic
+ public-spiritedness, fixing bugs as they show up in sbcl-devel or as
+ archived in the BUGS file.
+
+Nathan Froyd:
+ He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
+ cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
+ maintenance. (E.g. converting the PCL code to use LOOP instead
+ of the old weird pre-ANSI ITERATE macro so that the code can be
+ read without being an expert in ancient languages and so that
+ can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology.)
+
+Arthur Lemmens:
+ He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting SBCL
+ to bootstrap under <some other Common Lisp system, which could
+ probably be found in the sbcl-devel archives>.
Robert MacLachlan:
He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to,
problems, has been invaluable to the CMU CL project and, by
porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well.
-Bill Newman:
- He continued to work on SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
+Dave McDonald:
+ He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
+ under CLISP.
+
+William ("Bill") Newman:
+ He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the
system, deleting unused extensions, improving performance in
some areas (especially sequence functions and non-simple vectors),
- and updating documentation.
+ updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
+ rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
+
+Christophe Rhodes:
+ He has done various low-level work on SBCL, especially for the
+ SPARC port (and for CPU-architecture-neutral things motivated by
+ it, like *BACKEND-FEATURES*). He's also contributed miscellaneous
+ bug fixes.
Raymond Toy:
He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
CMU CL support for FreeBSD and updating it for the changes made
from FreeBSD version 3 to FreeBSD version 4. He also ported the
CMU CL extension RUN-PROGRAM, and related code, to SBCL.
+
+
+INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
+
+AL Arthur Lemmens
+MNA Martin Atzmueller
+DB Daniel Barlow
+DTC Douglas Crosher
+APD Alexey Dejneka
+NJF Nathan Froyd
+RAM Robert MacLachlan
+WHN William ("Bill") Newman
+CSR Christophe Rhodes
+PVE Peter Van Eynde
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