** DEFGENERIC with :METHOD options
** bug 126, in (MAKE-STRING N :INITIAL-ELEMENT #\SPACE))
** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
- He also pointed out some bogus old entries in BUGS.
+ He also pointed out some bogus old entries in BUGS, and fixed
+ a number of bugs which came into existence in the pre7 branch
+ (internal to the CVS repository), so that they never showed
+ up in release versions.
?? Old operator names in the style DEF-FOO are now deprecated in favor
of new corresponding names DEFINE-FOO, for consistency with the
naming convention used in the ANSI standard). This mostly affects
: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.
+?? The value of INTERNAL-TIME-UNITS-PER-SECOND has been increased
+ from 100 to 1000.
* The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has been
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
* The interpreter, EVAL, has been rewritten. Now it calls the
native compiler for the difficult cases, where it used to call
the old specialized IR1 interpreter code.
-* The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation,
- is no longer part of the base system. SourceForge has shut down
- its anonymous FTP service, and with it my original plan for
- distributing them separately. For now, if you need them you can
- download an old sbcl source release and get them from there.
+* The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation
+ from the time of the fork, is no longer part of the base system.
+ SourceForge has shut down its anonymous FTP service, and with it
+ my original plan for distributing the old CMU CL documentation
+ there. For now, if you need these files you can download an old
+ SBCL source release and extract them from it.
* lots of other tidying up internally: renaming things so that names
are more systematic and consistent, converting C macros to inline
functions, systematizing indentation, making symbol packaging