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@@ -136,13 +136,14 @@ chance to see it.
 
 SBCL aims for but has not reached ANSI compliance.
 
-SBCL compiles Lisp to native code, or optionally to more-compact but
-much slower byte code.
+SBCL compiles Lisp to native code. (Unlike earlier versions of SBCL,
+byte compilation is no longer supported.)
 
-SBCL's garbage collector is generational and conservative.
+SBCL uses a generational conservative garbage collector for some ports,
+and a simple stop-and-copy garbage collector for other ports.
 
 SBCL includes a source level debugger, as well as the ANSI TRACE
-facility and a rudimentary profiler.
+facility and a profiler.
 
 .SH DIFFERENCES FROM CMU CL
 
@@ -257,12 +258,8 @@ Unlike its distinguished ancestor CMU CL, SBCL is currently on X86
 straightforward to port the CMU CL support for SPARC, or to port to
 NetBSD.
 
-As of version 0.6.11, SBCL requires on the order of 16Mb to run. In
-some future version, this number could shrink significantly, since
-large parts of the system are far from execution bottlenecks and could
-reasonably be stored in compact byte compiled form. (CMU CL does this
-routinely; the only reason SBCL doesn't currently do this is a
-combination of bootstrapping technicalities and inertia.)
+As of version 0.6.13, SBCL requires on the order of 16Mb RAM to run
+on X86 systems. 
 
 .SH ENVIRONMENT