stack-allocatable fill-initialized specialized arrays, take 2

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
     deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
   * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
     cases.
+  * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
+    :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
+    of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to Luís Oliveira, lp#901661)
+  * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
+    faster. (lp#902537)
+  * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
+    be stack-allocated. (lp#902351) 
   * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
     floating point constants used in full calls.
   * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
@@ -69,6 +76,14 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
     errors on debugger entry.
   * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
     (regression since 1.0.53)
+  * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
+    an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
+  * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
+    no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
+  * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
+    subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
+  * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
+    forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
   * minor incompatible changes: