X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=fc41d572d1983cc9a203e77311b9b600975b0e58;hb=8bb34dad31b73a7bd4ca17b1630f4f5bdc94f347;hp=f6c1203cb22fa55e97867541f94aa6b62d30ea1f;hpb=4c09711eca1c33e60ff30a8f47f9c03b429d5994;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f6c1203..fc41d57 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,54 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.10 relative to sbcl-1.0.9: + * 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. + +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. * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY allows assining a global minimum value to optimization qualities (overriding proclamations and declarations). @@ -7,7 +56,13 @@ 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: 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. @@ -19,6 +74,12 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7: variables now works on x86-64. (reported by Christopher Laux) * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now thread safe. + * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list + as the property-list of a symbol. + * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body, + in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL + situations requested, are once again file-compileable. (reported + by Sascha Wilde) changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6: * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of