(thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
* optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
(UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
+ * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
+ type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
+ PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
+ stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
* (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles