fasl file version.
changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
+* incompatible change: The default fasl file extension has changed
+ to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".)
* There are new compiler optimizations for various functions: FIND,
POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF, FILL, COERCE, TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and
CEILING. Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one
doubled, to 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time
GCing and you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
increasing it even more.)
-?? The system's handling of top-level forms and EVAL-WHEN is now
- more ANSI-compliant, fixing bugs
+* The EVAL and EVAL-WHEN code has been largely rewritten, and the
+ old CMU CL "IR1 interpreter" has gone away. The new interpreter
+ is probably slower and harder to debug than the old one, but
+ it's much simpler (several thousand lines of source code simpler)
+ and considerably more ANSI-compliant. Bugs
?? IR1-3 and
- ?? IR1-3a.
- It's also done by much newer code, so there might be some new bugs,
- but hopefully if so they'll be less fundamental and more fixable.
+ ?? IR1-3a
+ have been fixed. Since the code is newer, there might still be
+ some new bugs (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's
+ fixes:-). But hopefully any remaining bugs will be simpler, less
+ fundamental, and more fixable then the bugs in the old IR1
+ interpreter code.
* PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
it's trying to decide whether to truncate output . Thus e.g.
(print (aref possiblybigthings i) stream)))))
should truncate the logical block only at 50 lines, instead of
often truncating it at 8 lines.
-?? lots of tidying up internally: renaming things so that names are
+* :SB-CONSTRAIN-FLOAT-TYPE, :SB-PROPAGATE-FLOAT-TYPE, and
+ :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
+ features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
+ built into the system.
+* lots of tidying up internally: renaming things so that names are
more systematic and consistent, converting C macros to inline
functions, systematizing indentation
* The fasl file version number changed again, for any number of
instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]" sequence. (I was motivated
to do this when squabbles between ILISP and SBCL left me
very deeply nested in the debugger.)
-* The fasl file extension may change, perhaps to ".fasl".
* The default output representation for unprintable ASCII characters
which, unlike e.g. #\Newline, don't have names defined in the
ANSI Common Lisp standard, may change to their ASCII symbolic
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