Faster ISQRT on small (about fixnum sized) numbers.

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-changes relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
+changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
+  * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
+    the working directory of the spawned process.
+    (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
+  * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
+    of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
+    (lp#1096444)
+  * bug fix: handle errors when initializing *default-pathname-defaults*,
+    sb-ext:*runtime-pathname*, sb-ext:*posix-argv* on startup, like character
+    decoding errors, or directories being deleted.
+  * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
+
+changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
   * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.
     (lp#457053)
   * bug fix: :allocation slot option works for condition slots