X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=47be00e88679313935a5da0b3f19c39bd03eb722;hb=b8359d1e6db950b0a7bd4a255ed6d57a3eac08ef;hp=2e0dba0a2d922756645aace913f4b8e89cd6d293;hpb=d4b41d5e69c921361e0978e5d4a7519ae54b9c6a;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2e0dba0..47be00e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.58: + * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling + source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T. + * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer + comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs. + * bug fix: Reading floats with large exponents no longer takes too much time + before reporting that the exponent is too large. + * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the + manual. (lp#656839) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57: * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package in which the new generic function is being created. * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive @@ -12,13 +22,16 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57: * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP. * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is - of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (thanks to James - M. Lawrence) + of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043, + thanks to James M. Lawrence) * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit - function cannot escape. + function cannot escape. (lp#1002534) * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs. + * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution + speed (around 1/3 the time in some cases), and a little better in terms of + comparison calls. (Thanks to Takeru Ohta) * bug fix: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants emittable by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions to compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes @@ -43,6 +56,10 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57: * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since 1.0.56.19) + * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's + controling terminal. + * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process + (lp#1012811). changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56: * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes: