X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=7bdf0e52842b164be9d7256af2b04798a133e3a1;hb=7217c0c2f1f8dc7934f8b0a25b9d3c4c4c6fe950;hp=9fdeeccb34d954207c3d665385504fe36a5caf34;hpb=9af8ab0a80bbd4d579ed4a12d2a2819a7490901a;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9fdeecc..7bdf0e5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -3,13 +3,22 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.30: * improvement: stack allocation is should now be possible in all nested inlining cases: failure to stack allocate when equivalent code is manually open coded is now considered a bug. + * improvement: the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the + Unicode 5.0.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new + characters, and providing a few extra characters with case + transformations. * new feature: experimental :EMIT-CFASL parameter to COMPILE-FILE can be used to output toplevel compile-time effects into a separate .CFASL file. + * optimization: COERCE to VECTOR, STRING, SIMPLE-STRING and recognizable + one-dimenstional subtypes of ARRAY is upto 70% faster when the coercion is + actually needed. * optimization: division of floating point numbers by constants uses multiplication by reciprocal when an exact reciprocal exists. * optimization: multiplication of single- and double-floats floats by constant two has been optimized. + * optimization: ARRAY-IN-BOUNDS-P is resolved at compile-time when + sufficient type information is available. (thanks to Leslie Polzer) * improvement: a STYLE-WARNING is signalled when a generic function clobbers an earlier FTYPE proclamation. * improvement: the compiler is able to track the effective type of @@ -19,8 +28,26 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.30: but assumed or declared function as well. * improvement: recompilation of systems using SB-GROVEL now works (thanks to Leslie Polzer) - * improvement: SB-CLTL2 functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, - and ENCLOSE have been documented (thanks to Larry D'Anna) + * improvements to SB-CLTL2 (thanks to Larry D'Anna): + ** functions DECLARATION-INFORMATION, PARSE-MACRO, and ENCLOSE have been + documented. + ** AUGMENT-ENVIRONMENT and DEFINE-DECLARATION have been implemented. + ** DECLARATION-INFORMATION now supports declaration name DECLARATION as + well as user defined declaration names. + ** VARIABLE-INFORMATION is now aware of alien variables. + * improvement: improved address space layout on OpenBSD (thanks to Josh + Elsasser) + * improvement: pretty-printing of various Lisp forms has been improved + (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler) + * bug fix: a failing AVER in CONVERT-MV-CALL has been fixed. (thanks to + Larry D'Anna) + * bug fix: a failing AVER in %ALLOCATE-CLOSURES conversion has been fixed + (thanks to Larry D'Anna) + * bug fix: SLEEP supports times over 100 million seconds on long on OpenBSD + as well. (reported by Josh Elsasser) + * bug fix: DELETE-FILE on streams no longer closes the stream with :ABORT T, + leading to possible attempts to delete the same file twice. See docstring + on DELETE-FILE for details. (reported by John Fremlin) * bug fix: the low-level debugger had 32-bit assumptions and was missing information about some array types. (thanks to Luis Oliveira) * bug fix: moderately complex combinations of inline expansions could @@ -32,6 +59,7 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.30: be heap allocated to be stack allocated. * bug fix: DESCRIBE signalled an error for generic functions under certain circumstances. (thanks to Leslie Polzer) + * bug fix: Fixed spelling of an error message. changes in sbcl-1.0.30 relative to sbcl-1.0.29: * minor incompatible change: SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and