asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets, sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix
contrib packages.
+Zach Beane:
+ He provided a number of additions to SB-POSIX, implemented the
+ original timer facility on which SBCL's timers are based. and also
+ contributed the :SAVE-RUNTIME-OPTIONS support for SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE.
+
James Bielman:
- He assisted in work on the port to the Windows operating system.
+ He assisted in work on the port to the Windows operating system, and
+ was instrumental in :EXECUTABLE support for SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE.
Alastair Bridgewater:
He contributed a port of the system to the Windows operating system.
CL:DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO, and a generalization of the type system's
handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+Larry D'Anna:
+ He provided several parts of SB-CLTL2 environment access, and has
+ also worked on bugs in the IR2 conversion stage of the compiler.
+
Alexey Dejneka:
He fixed many, many bugs on various themes, and has done a
tremendous amount of work on the compiler in particular, fixing
He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
(which?) platforms.
+Helmut Eller:
+ A lot of the code in the SB-INTROSPECT and SB-COVER contrib modules
+ was originally written by him for Slime/Swank.
+
Lutz Euler:
He made a large number of improvements to the x86-64 disassembler.
regressions of SBCL. He assisted with the integration of the
Unicode work.
+Stephan Frank:
+ He contributed the SB-GMP contrib to exploit libgmp in bignum and
+ ratio arithmetic.
+
Nathan Froyd:
He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
cleanup, not visible at the user level but important for
He added support for SunOS on x86 processors.
ITA Software:
- They hired Juho Snellman as a consultant to work on improvements to
+ They hired Juho Snellman as a consultant to work on improvements to
SBCL, to be released into the public domain. The work they've funded
- includes faster compilation speeds, the interpreter-based evaluator
- and the IR2-based single-stepper.
+ includes faster compilation, various improvements to the statistical
+ profiler, the SB-COVER code coverage tool, the interpreter-based
+ evaluator and the IR2-based single-stepper.
Espen S Johnsen:
He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
character database, restoring the FAST-READ-CHAR optimization and
developing external format support.
+Dmitry Kalyanov:
+ His work was crucial in bringing the Windows backend forward; he
+ implemented pthreads and ported SB-THREAD to this platform.
+
Yaroslav Kavenchuk:
He implemented several missing features and fixed many bugs in
the win32 port. He also worked on external-format support for
SB-ALIEN.
+Anton Kovalenko:
+ He introduced a safepoint-based stop-the-world protocol and greatly
+ contributed to features and bugfixes related to the Windows port.
+
+Richard M Kreyter:
+ He added documentation support for CLOS slot readers and writers,
+ provided several SB-POSIX and NetBSD patches, and cleaned up
+ several of the filesystem/pathname interfaces.
+
Frederik Kuivinen:
He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
SBCL to bootstrap under Lispworks for Windows.
David Lichteblau:
- He came up with a more memory-efficient representation for
- structures with raw slots.
+ He repeatedly failed to update his entry in this file.
Robert MacLachlan:
He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to,
He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
under CLISP.
+Gabor Melis:
+ He mainly worked on robustness related to signal handling, threads,
+ timers with small excursions to constraint propagation, weak hash
+ tables (based on CMUCL code) and optimizing x86/x86-64 calling
+ convention.
+
Perry E. Metzger:
He ported SBCL to NetBSD with newer signals, building on the
work of Valtteri Vuorikoski. He also provided various cleanups to
rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
NIIMI Satoshi:
- He contributed a number of fixes to the FreeBSD port.
+ He contributed a number of fixes to the FreeBSD port, implemented
+ some external-formats and JOIN-THREAD, and also worked on
+ the :EXECUTABLE support.
Patrik Nordebo:
He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
Timothy Ritchey:
He implemented SB-BSD-SOCKETS support for the win32 port.
+Tobias Rittweiler
+ He has made several contributions relating to source locations,
+ pretty printing, SB-INTROSPECT, and the reader.
+
Kevin M. Rosenberg:
He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
a number of MOP-related bug reports. He also creates the official
Nikodemus Siivola:
He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
implemented package locks, ported the linkage-table code from CMUCL,
- reimplemented STEP, and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs
- besides.
+ reimplemented STEP, implemented the compare-and-swap interface, and
+ has fixed many bugs besides.
Juho Snellman:
He provided a number of bug fixes and performance enhancements to
in the system, but did to a large extent influence the support which
finally did get merged.)
+Robert Swindells:
+ He ported SBCL to NetBSD/Sparc.
+
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, including his Sparc port of linkage-table.
+Larry Valkama:
+ He resurrected the HPUX port, and worked on the HPPA backend in
+ general.
+
Peter Van Eynde:
He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
(clocc ansi-test) which can be used on SBCL, provided a slew of
INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
AB Alastair Bridgewater
+AK Anton Kovalenko
AL Arthur Lemmens
APD Alexey Dejneka
CLH Cyrus Harmon
DTC Douglas Crosher
JES Juho Snellman
JRXR Joshua Ross
+LAV Larry Valkama
+LEU Lutz Euler
MG Gabor Melis
MNA Martin Atzmueller
NJF Nathan Froyd
PFD Paul F. Dietz
PRM Pierre Mai
PVE Peter Van Eynde
+PK/PVK Paul-Virak Khuong
PW Paul Werkowski
RAM Robert MacLachlan
+RLT Raymond Toy
+TCR Tobias Rittweiler
THS Thiemo Seufer
VJA Vincent Arkesteijn
WHN William ("Bill") Newman
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