X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d294148b6e337c55e85394c26924e8320d621ca4;hb=HEAD;hp=ab625a0d4e1e7e6ca69bba6fd40fee3649f8f467;hpb=0e3c4b4db102bd204a30402d7e5a0de44aea57ce;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ab625a0..d294148 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- changes relative to sbcl-1.1.14: - * improvement: support for "Mac Roman" external format. * new feature: the iterative spilling/coloring register allocator developed by Alexandra Barchunova during Google Summer of Code 2013 is now merged in. By default, it only activates for functions that optimize with @@ -9,8 +8,10 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.14: execution. The previous behaviour can be obtained by instead setting that variable to :greedy. Thanks again to Google for their support, and, more crucially, to Alexandra Barchunova for her hard work. - * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unkown dimensions is + * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unknown dimensions is much faster. + * optimization: make-array with unknown element-type is faster as well. + (lp#1004501) * enhancement: sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die on Windows now accepts :application-type argument, which can be :console or :gui. :gui allows having GUI applications without an automatically appearing console window. @@ -18,6 +19,9 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.14: conservative roots must be valid-looking tagged pointers or point within a code object, not merely point to within the allocated part of a page, in order to pin a page. + * enhancement: support for "Mac Roman" external format. + * enhancement: encapsulation of named generic functions now happens without + altering the identity of the function bound to the name. * bug fix: Windows applications without the console window no longer misbehave. (patch by Wilfredo Velazquez, lp#1256034). * bug fix: modular arithmetic optimizations do not stumble on dead branches