X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4a68deb29ff90893efa6138e2790ac78fe789e4a;hb=c589b9363d23ec9133e5396adaf4240cb0a8bd18;hp=0e3f455437582d494ea3ba92994b9a0e50715c41;hpb=72ec08324e0faaaebe41dfbe5361fdd815e882ce;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0e3f455..4a68deb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,61 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.30: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.31 + * optimization: faster FIND and POSITION on strings of unknown element type + in high SPEED policies. (thanks to Karol Swietlicki) + * optimization: faster CONCATENATE 'STRING in low SPEED policies (reported + by David Vázquez) + * improvement: better error signalling for bogus parameter specializer names + in DEFMETHOD forms (reported by Pluijzer) + * bug fix: DELETE-FILE once again works on logical pathnames (regression + since 1.0.30.49) + * bug fix: LOGICAL-PATHNAME signals a TYPE-ERROR if pathspec is specified + incorrectly. + * bug fix: redefinition of a class via DEFCLASS without :DEFAULT-INITARGS + removes previous default initargs (reported by Lars Rune Nøstdal and + Samium Gromoff) + * bug fix: correct WHO-CALLS information for inlined lambdas with complex + lambda-lists. (reported by Peter Seibel) + * bug fix: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE option :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS did not work + correctly when starting from an executable core without saved runtime + options (reported by Faré Rideau, thanks to Zach Beane) + * bug fix: (SETF SLOT-VALUE) signalled a warning which should have been + an optimization note instead. (reported by Martin Cracauer) + * bug fix: WITH-SLOTS did not work with THE forms. (thanks to David Tolpin) + * bug fix: Have RUN-PROGRAM with :INPUT T only run the subprocess in a + new process group if it doesn't need to share stdin with the sbcl + process. (thanks to Leslie Polzer) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.31 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. + * improvements related to Unicode: + ** the Unicode character database has been upgraded to the + Unicode 5.1 standard, giving names and properties to a number of new + characters, and providing a few extra characters with case + transformations. + ** the system now recognizes and produces names for Unicode Hangul + syllable characters. + ** the EBCDIC-US external-format is now supported for octet operations + (as well as for stream operations). * 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: TRUNCATE on known single- and double-floats is upto 25% + faster. * 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) + * optimization: SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with constant slot names on + known structure objects are as efficient as defstruct generated accessors. + * optimization: unused vector creation can now be optimized away. + * improvement: ASDF systems can now depends on SB-INTROSPECT. * 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 @@ -25,17 +68,39 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.30: * 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. + 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: calls to DECODE-FLOAT and INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT whose value was + unused were deleted in safe code. (reported by John Fremlin) + * bug fix: a failing AVER compiling certain MAKE-ARRAY forms. (reported + by James Wright) + * bug fix: some out-of-line array predicates were missing (reported by + Stelian Ionescu) + * 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: DELETE-FILE once again deletes the file named by the pathname + designator argument, rather than its truename. (reported by Luis + Oliveira) * 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 be miscompiled if the result was declared to be dynamic extent. + * bug fix: on x86, SAP-REF of sizes greater than 8 bits with offsets of the + form (+ ) were miscompiled under certain + circumstances. * bug fix: in some cases no compiler note about failure to stack allocate was emitted, even if the objects were in fact heap allocated. * bug fix: minor violation of "otherwise inaccessible" rule for stack @@ -43,6 +108,7 @@ 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