X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=74c27882c2194312a24a88cac58151cc29d5be4c;hb=c2ac5ba3964165ee2d21ccd4c6bf8bdc48e1a165;hp=f2699ca7dd393ab1e31c0bf387a82a932d509608;hpb=b76e5fdf19ce4ab1c6983e6f4b301196484eecc2;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f2699ca..74c2788 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,15 +1,41 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.14 relative to sbcl-1.0.13: + * bug fix: RESOLVE-CONFLICT (and the other name conflict machinery) + is now actually exported from SB-EXT as documented. (reported by + Maciej Katafiasz) + changes in sbcl-1.0.13 relative to sbcl-1.0.12: + * minor incompatible change: RUN-PROGRAM now uses execvp(3) to find + an executable in the search path, and does so in the child + process's PATH. The function FIND-EXECUTABLE-IN-SEARCH-PATH has + been removed; it can be found in the CVS history, for somebody who + needs that search behavior (see the manual). + * minor incompatible change: compiler policy re. weakening type + checks has changed: now type checks are weakened on if SAFETY < 2 + and SAFETY < SPEED. * SB-EXT:NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes a new keyword AS-FILE, forcing unparsing of directory pathnames as files. Analogously, SB-EXT:PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING takes an AS-DIRECTORY, forcing a filename to parse into a directory pathname. + * enhancement: implicit generic function creation now signals a + specific style-warning IMPLICIT-GENERIC-FUNCTION-WARNING, which + users can bind handlers for and muffle around calls to LOAD. * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM allows unicode arguments and environments to be used (using the default stream external format), and allows non-simple strings to be used. (thanks to Harald Hanche-Olsen) - * optimizations: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for + * optimization: COPY-SEQ, FILL, and SUBSEQ are 30-80% faster for strings and vectors whose element-type or simplicity is not fully known at compile-time. + * optimization: STRING-TRIM and related functions no longer allocate + a new string when no trimming needs to be performed. These functions + are also faster than before when the input string has been declared + as a simple-string. + * optimization: READ-SEQUENCE on simple-strings is up to 80% faster. + * optimization: READ-LINE is significantly faster for files containing + long lines. + * optimization: non-open coded uses of character comparison operators + (e.g. char=) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter + on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation. * bug fix: READ-SEQUENCE on composite stream wrapping a Gray stream with STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) signalled an error. * bug fix: COPY-SEQ on lists did not signal a type-error on improper