remove world-lock from around FASL loading

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*-
 changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
+  * enhancement: FASL loading no longer grabs the world-lock.
   * enhancement: GENCGC reclaims space more aggressively when objects being
     allocated are a large fraction of the total available heap space.
     (lp#936304)
@@ -8,6 +9,8 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
   * optimization: fewer uses of full calls to signed modular functions.
     (lp#903821)
   * optimization: typechecking alien values is typically 5 x faster.
+  * optimization: FDEFINITION, SYMBOL-FUNCTION, MACRO-FUNCTION, and FBOUNDP
+    are 20% faster.
   * bug fix: fixed disassembly of some SSE instructions on x86-64.
   * bug fix: SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS signals an error for bogus :CLASS arguments in
     OPEN. (lp#969352, thanks to Kambiz Darabi)
@@ -29,6 +32,9 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56:
   * bug fix: account for funcallable-instance objects properly in ROOM.
   * bug fix: incorrect octets reported for c-string decoding errors.
     (lp#985505)
+  * bug fix: miscompilation of LDB on the PowerPC platform.  (thanks to Bruce
+    O'Neel)
+  * bug fix: better input error reporting for COMPILE-FILE. (lp#493380)
   * documentation:
     ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)