0.9.9.38:

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -4,12 +4,16 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
     be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one 
     executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
     platforms.  (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
+  * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
+    the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin).  The
+    old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
+    (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
   * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
     contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
     links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
     in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
   * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
-    markedly larger.
+    markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
   * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
     certain complicated string types.  (reported by Gary King)
   * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
@@ -30,6 +34,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
     manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
     (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
     many others over the years)
+  * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
+    the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
+    (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
   * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating