X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e6b1d1e09d01e4e200a889dc1f11d8ad8ae80ac3;hb=102b7c83b326855e16c3bc3ce4fa60c6d7aaba85;hp=0609e7fa2d5802e34e6a66ab65c36f26aad99dfb;hpb=1ac7e7c95d8badd4ff01d676dffece6b710cea13;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0609e7f..e6b1d1e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,102 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.11 relative to sbcl-1.0.10: + * incompatible change: hash-table accessor functions are no longer + automatically protected by locks. Concurrent accesses on the same hash-table + from multiple threads can give inconsistent results or even corrupt the + hash-table completely. Multi-threaded applications should do their own + locking at the correct granularity. In the current implementation it is + still safe to have multiple readers access the same table, but it's not + guaranteed that this property will be maintained in future releases. + * minor incompatible change: (SETF MUTEX-VALUE) is not longer supported, + and will signal an error at runtime. + * enhancement: SB-THREAD package now exports a semaphore interface. + * enhancement: CONS can now stack-allocate on x86 and + x86-64. (Earlier LIST and LIST* supported stack-allocation, but + CONS did not.) + * enhancement: nested lists can now be stack allocated on + platforms providing stack allocation support. + * enhancement: dynamic-extent support has been extended to support + cases where there are multiple possible sources for the stack + allocated value. + * optimization: RELEASE-MUTEX no longer needs to perform a syscall + if the mutex is uncontested on Linux. + * bug fix: symbol-macro expansion now uses the *MACROEXPAND-HOOK* + as specified by the CLHS. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9: + * minor incompatible change: the MSI installer on Windows no longer + associates .lisp and .fasl files with the installed SBCL. + * minor incompatible change: :UNIX is no longer present in *FEATURES* + on Windows. (thanks to Luis Oliviera) + * new feature: SB-CLTL2 contrib module now implements + FUNCTION-INFORMATION. (thanks to Larry D'Anna) + * optimization: scavenging weak pointers is now more efficient, + requiring O(1) instead of O(N) per weak pointer to identify + scanvenged vs. unscavenged pointers. (thanks to Paul Khuong) + * optimization: typechecking (SETF SLOT-VALUE) is now ~5x faster in + method bodies using constant slot-names when the first argument is + a specializer parameter for the method. + * optimization: SLOT-VALUE &co are now ~50% faster for variable slot + names, when the class of the instance is a direct instance + STANDARD-CLASS or FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS (making them only 3x + as slow as the constant slot-name case.) + * optimization: member type construction is now O(N) instead + of O(N^2). + * optimization: UNION and NUNION are now O(N+M) for large + inputs as long as the :TEST function is one of EQ, EQL, EQUAL, or + EQUALP. + * enhancement: DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO lambda-list information is + now more readable in environments like Slime which display it. + (thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler) + * bug fix: SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP was non-atomic unless the compiler + was able to infer the correct argument type for the object on which + the CAS operation was being performed. + * bug fix: copy propagation interfered with parallel assignment + semantics in local calls. (reported by Paul Khuong) + * bug fix: the signed modular fixnum shift compiled to wrong code on + x86 and x86-64. (spotted by a slight modification to some of + PFD's random tests) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.9 relative to sbcl-1.0.8: + * minor incompatible change: SB-SYS:OUTPUT-RAW-BYTES is deprecated. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:FINALIZE accepts a :DONT-SAVE keyword argument, + indicating the finalizer should be cancelled when SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE + is called. + * enhancement: default PRINT-OBJECT methods for classes, slot-definitions, + and generic function now print the object identity for anonymous + instances. (thanks to Attila Lendvai) + * enhancement: as an extension to MOP, SBCL now supports SETF of + STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS. + (thanks to Attila Lendvai) + * enhancement: sb-cover has an alternate annotation mode which puts + the form annotations at the car of the form, instead of annotating + it completely. The benefit of this mode is that it shows better + which forms were instrumented by the compiler. + * bug fix: new compiler transforms for MEMBER and ASSOC were affected + by printer control variables. (reported by Dan Corkill) + * bug fix: system leaked memory when delayed output was performed by + the OS in smaller chunks then expected. (thanks to David Smith) + * bug fix: system leaked memory when file streams were not closed + properly. + * bug fix: large objects written to slow streams that were modified + after the write could end up with the modified state written to + the underlying file descriptor. + * bug fix: multiple threads operating in parallel on the same stream + could cause buffer-overflows. + * bug fix: source location information is stored correctly + (broken since 1.0.6). This bug would generally show up as the + Slime debugger higlighting the wrong form when the sldb-show-source + command was used. + * bug fix: Branch forms are again annotated as branches in the sb-cover + annotations. + * bug fix: GCD on MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM no longer causes an infinite loop + on x86-64. (reported by Gregory Vanuxem) + * bug fix: EQUALP could return wrong results for structures with raw + slots (slots with a :TYPE of SINGLE-FLOAT, DOUBLE-FLOAT, or a machine + word). (reported by Vjacheslav Fyodorov) + * bug fix: sb-sprof sampling didn't work on non-x86oid platforms. (patch + by Pierre Mai) + changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7: * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms. @@ -9,10 +107,13 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7: and x86-64. * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again non-consing. + * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up + eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names. * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8. - * optimization: MEMBER can now be open-coded for all combinations - of keyword arguments when second argument is constant, and in other - cases a specialized version is selected. + * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all + combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant + and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is + selected. * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and generic functions now signals a sensible error. * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.