0.8.19.25:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
     coerce function designators to functions.
   * optimization: code with many calls to CLOS methods specialized on
     CLOS classes has had redundant type checks removed.
+  * optimization: added declarations to speed up operations that access
+    the internal character database (for example STRING-UPCASE)
+  * optimization: comparison operations between floats and sufficiently small
+    fixnums no longer create extra rationals
   * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
     ** portions of multibyte characters at the end of buffers for
        character-based file input are correctly transferred to the
@@ -40,6 +44,10 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.20 (0.9alpha.0?) relative to sbcl-0.8.19:
        secondary constituent character trait.
     ** SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR correctly copies multiple-escape character
        syntax.
+    ** WITH-INPUT-FROM-STRING should only update the index place on
+       normal termination.
+    ** Pretty-printing backquoted forms when *PRINT-CIRCLE* is true
+       works more reliably.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
   * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux