X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=6d79fba8391549bb5276cfb70eb9a7daddeca113;hb=cb83aa22932bf4b9bc74ac6f0fcd91db1702ad33;hp=9455b9a9d471f67a5e59da5636064b3085816de0;hpb=dccd283c6fedf7fe61d2d2bede328a6b7d92f7be;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9455b9a..6d79fba 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,40 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- -changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18: +changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0: + * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information + abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands) + and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code + compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the + sb-introspect contrib. + * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on + x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8 + * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly + (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints) + work on Windows. + * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method + defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using + CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza) + * bug fix: recursion is now permitted in accessors through + SLOT-UNBOUND. (reported by Pascal Costanza) + * bug fix: an error was signaled at startup if the HOME environment + variable was defined, but had an empty value (reported by Peter Van Eynde) + * bug fix: non ordinary lambda-list keyword in ordinary lambda lists + signal a PROGRAM-ERROR, not a BUG. + * bug fix: SB-POSIX:READDIR works when built with large file support. + * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING works relative to #p"/" as well. (thanks + to Marco Monteiro) + * enhancement: DESTRUCTURING-BIND lambda-list uses &BODY instead of &REST + for better automatic indentation support. (thanks to Matt Pillsbury) + * optimization: loading generic functions no longer takes O(n^2) time, + proportional to the amount of methods in the generic function + (reported by Todd Sabin and Jeremy Brown) + * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions + are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been + declared. + +changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18: + * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86. + (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi) * improvement: runtime option --dynamic-space-size can be used to set the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup. * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in @@ -18,6 +53,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18: on Linux/x86 * improvement: added support for the Shift-JIS external format. (contributed by NIIMI Satoshi) + * improvement: callbacks are supported on Linux/PPC. (thanks to + Joshua Ross) * bug fix: compiler bug triggered by a (non-standard) VALUES declaration in a LET* was fixed. (reported by Kaersten Poeck) * bug fix: file compiler no longer confuses validated and already @@ -34,10 +71,15 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18: (reported by Josip Gracin) * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to displace arrays with incompatible element types (thanks to Mario Mommer) + * bug fix: more correct handling of wide characters in debug info + (bug reported by Attila Lendvai and fixed by Juho Snellman) * optimization: method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster and don't cause extra consing * optimization: MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors whose elements types have been declared. + * Improvements to SB-SPROF: + ** Support for allocation profiling + ** Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs * Improvements to the Windows port: ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly. ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.