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@@ -509,13 +509,14 @@ Martin Atzmueller:
 Daniel Barlow:
   His contributions have included support for shared object loading
   (from CMUCL), the Cheney GC for non-x86 ports (from CMUCL), Alpha
-  and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new)
-  and native threads support for x86 Linux (new).  He also refactored
-  the garbage collectors for understandability, wrote code
-  (e.g. grovel-headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find
-  machine-dependent and OS-dependent constants automatically, and was
-  original author of the asdf, asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets,
-  sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix contrib packages.
+  and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new),
+  native threads support for x86 Linux (new), and the initial x86-64
+  backend (new).  He also refactored the garbage collectors for
+  understandability, wrote code (e.g. grovel-headers.c and
+  stat_wrapper stuff) to find machine-dependent and OS-dependent
+  constants automatically, and was original author of the asdf,
+  asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets, sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix
+  contrib packages.
 
 Robert E. Brown:
   He has reported various bugs and submitted several patches, 
@@ -549,12 +550,19 @@ Paul Dietz:
   analysis phase in the compiler.
 
 Brian Downing:
-  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.
+  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.  He
+  found and fixed the cause of backtraces failing for undefined
+  functions and assembly routines.
 
 Miles Egan:
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
   (which?) platforms.
 
+Andreas Fuchs:
+  He provides infrastructure for monitoring build and performance
+  regressions of SBCL.  He assisted with the integration of the
+  Unicode work.
+
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
   cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
@@ -575,6 +583,11 @@ Matthias Hoelzl:
 Espen S Johnsen:
   He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
 
+Teemu Kalvas:
+  He worked on Unicode support for SBCL, including parsing the Unicode
+  character database, restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization and
+  developing external format support.
+
 Frederik Kuivinen:
   He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
 
@@ -598,7 +611,8 @@ Eric Marsden:
   Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported
   to SBCL.  He also maintains the cl-benchmark package, which gives
   us some idea of how our performance changes compared to earlier
-  releases and to other implementations.
+  releases and to other implementations.  He assisted in development
+  of Unicode support for SBCL.
 
 Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
@@ -625,6 +639,10 @@ Gerd Moellman:
   faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
   less buggy.
 
+Timothy Moore:
+  He designed and implemented the original CMUCL linkage-table, on
+  which the SBCL implementation thereof is based.
+
 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the
@@ -666,23 +684,33 @@ Rudi Schlatte:
   string extractor that keeps function documentation in the manual
   current.
 
+Julian Squires:
+  He worked on Unicode support for the PowerPC platform.
+
 Nikodemus Siivola:
   He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
-  implemented package locks, and has fixed many (stream-related and 
-  other) bugs besides.
+  implemented package locks, ported the linkage-table code from CMUCL,
+  reimplemented STEP, and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs 
+  besides.
 
 Juho Snellman:
   He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
-  function on strings, and removal of unneccessary bounds checks.
+  function on strings, removal of unneccessary bounds checks, and
+  multiple improvements to performance of common operations on
+  bignums.  He ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written by
+  Gerd Moellmann for CMU CL.  He completed the work on the x86-64 port
+  of SBCL.
 
 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
-  stream types and operations on them.
+  stream types and operations on them.  (These versions did not end up
+  in the system, but did to a large extent influence the support which
+  finally did get merged.)
 
 Raymond Toy:
   He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
   floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been
-  ported to SBCL.
+  ported to SBCL, including his Sparc port of linkage-table.
 
 Peter Van Eynde:
   He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
@@ -699,6 +727,9 @@ Colin Walters:
   cmucl-imp@cons.org mailing list, was the inspiration for similar MAP
   code added in sbcl-0.6.8.
 
+Cheuksan Edward Wang:
+  He assisted in debugging the SBCL x86-64 backend.
+
 Raymond Wiker:
   He ported sbcl-0.6.3 back to FreeBSD, restoring the ancestral
   CMU CL support for FreeBSD and updating it for the changes made