0.8.8.34:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1d40778..61d8a4b 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2327,6 +2327,11 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
     WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
     more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
     behaviour.
+  * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
+    that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions.  (thanks to Juho
+    Snellman)
+  * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
+    needless bounds checking.  (thanks to Juho Snellman)
   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
@@ -2351,6 +2356,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
        constitute a word.
     ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ", 
        rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
+    ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
+       less than 10 works correctly.
+    ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
+       more than 10 works correctly.
+    ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
+       the readtable currently in effect.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles