This should be a considerable improvement over sbcl-0.5.0. From the
NEWS file:
* tidied up "make.sh" script
* tidied up system directory structure
* better "clean.sh" behavior
* added doc/FOR-CMUCL-DEVELOPERS
* many many small tweaks to output format, e.g. removing possibly-confusing
trailing #\. character in DESCRIBE-INSTANCE
* (EQUALP #\A 'A) no longer signals an error.
* new hashing code, including EQUALP hashing
* tidied up Lisp initialization and toplevel
* initialization files (e.g. /etc/sbclrc and $HOME/.sbclrc)
* command line argument processing
* added POSIX-GETENV function to deal with Unix-ish environment variables
* more-Unixy handling of *STANDARD-INPUT* and other Lisp streams, e.g.
terminating SBCL on EOF
* non-verbose GC by default
* There is no more "sbcl" shell script; the sbcl file is now the C
runtime executable (just like CMU CL).
* removed some unused fops, e.g. FOP-UNIFORM-VECTOR, FOP-CHARACTER, and
FOP-POP-FOR-EFFECT
* tweaked debug-info.lisp and debug-int.lisp to make the debugger store
symbol and package information as Lisp native symbol and package objects
instead of strings naming symbols and strings naming packages. This way,
whenever packages are renamed (as in warm init), debug information is
transformed along with everything else.
* tweaked the optimization policy declarations which control the building
of SBCL itself. Now, among other things, the system no longer saves
source location debugging information. (This helps two problems at once
by reducing SBCL size and by keeping SBCL from trying to look for its
sources -- which may not exist -- when reporting errors.)
* added src/cold/chill.lisp, to let SBCL read its own cold sources for
debugging and testing purposes
* cleaned up printing, making the printer call PRINT-OBJECT for
instances, and using PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT for most PRINT-OBJECT
methods, giving nearly-ANSI behavior
* tweaked *PRINT-LEVEL* and *PRINT-LENGTH* settings used during build,
since now that very primitive printing methods have to be used before
CLOS is set up, we'd otherwise be in danger of infinite regress
* converted almost all special variables to use *FOO* naming convention
* deleted PARSE-TIME functionality, since it can be done portably
* moved some files out of cold init into warm init
* moved DEF!FOO macros into SB!INT package
* deleted DEFUN UNDEFINED-VALUE, replaced (UNDEFINED-VALUE) forms
with (VALUES) forms
* regularized formatting of source files
* added an install.sh script
* fixed ridiculous memory usage of cross-compiler by making
compiler/alloc.lisp not try to do pooling unless it can hook
itself into the GC of the cross-compilation host. Now the system
builds nicely on my old laptop.
* added :SB-ALLOC in target-features.lisp-expr
* deleted mention of :ANSI-DOC from target-features.lisp-expr (since it
was not implemented)
* re-did condition handling and note reporting in the compiler. Notes
are no longer handled by signalling conditions. Style warnings
and warnings are handled more correctly and reported in such a way
that it's easy to find one or the other in your output (so that you
can e.g. figure out which of many problems caused COMPILE-FILE to
return FAILURE-P).
* changed the severity of several compiler warnings from full WARNING
to STYLE-WARNING in order to conform with the ANSI spec
* made PROCLAIM and DECLAIM conform to ANSI. PROCLAIM is now an ordinary
function. As a consequence, START-BLOCK and END-BLOCK declarations are
no longer supported, since their implementation was deeply intertwingled
with the magical, non-ANSI treatment that PROCLAIM received in CMU CL.
* removed bogus "support" for compiler macros named (SETF FOO), and
removed the compiler macro for SETF INFO (but only after making a fool
of myself on the cmucl-imp mailing list by posting a bogus patch for
DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO..)
* Compiled files containing forms which have side effects on the Lisp
reader (such as DEFPACKAGE forms) are now handled more correctly.
(Compiler queuing of top level lambdas has been suppressed by setting
*TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDA-MAX* to 0. )
* deleted various currently-unused source files, e.g. gengc.lisp. They
may be added back at some point e.g. when porting to other architectures,
but until they are it's distracting to distribute them and to try to
maintain them.
* deleted "UNCROSS couldn't recurse through.." style warnings, since
there were so many of them they're just distractions, and UNCROSS is
known to be able to handle the current sources
?? moved PROFILE functionality into TRACE, so that it will be clear
how the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you profile them
interacts with the wrapping and unwrapping of functions when you
trace them. (Actually, the functionality isn't there yet, but at least
the interface specification is there. Hopefully, the functionality will
arrive with some future maintenance release.)
* removed host-oops.lisp
?? fixed READ-SEQUENCE bug
* tweaked verbose GC output so that it looks more like the progress
output that ANSI specifies for functions like LOAD
?? wrote non-trivial CREDITS file
?? regularized boilerplate at the head of source files
?? checked into CVS
?? set up the system on sourceforge.com, with home pages, mailing lists, etc.
* added <http://sbcl.sourceforge.com> to the banner information printed by
the sbcl executable
?? tweaked the build process so that fasl files are created in the same
directories as their source files (instead of the old system of
obj/from-host/ and obj/from-xc/ directories)
--
William Harold Newman <william.newman@...>
software consultant
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