1.0.9.49: NetBSD 2.0 build fix (Aymeric Vincent sbcl-devel 2007-09-05)

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 86c3dcf..875c36c 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
     associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL.
   * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES*
     on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera)
-  * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) are now >20% faster
-    for variable slot names, when the class of the instance is
-    an instance of STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS, and not
-    any of their subclasses.
+  * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot
+    names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance
+    STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x
+    as slow as the constant slot-name case.)
   * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead
     of O(N^2).
   * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9:
   * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is
     now more readable in environments like Slime which display it.
     (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
+  * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler
+    was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which
+    the CAS operation was being performed.
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8:
   * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated.