merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
* enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
disassembling SSE instructions. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+ * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
+ (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
* optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
:ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
* optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64