[Cmucl-cvs] [git] CMU Common Lisp branch 20f-branch updated. snapshot-2014-09-14-g227e508
Raymond Toy
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commit 227e5085c4e1bc0792c77a2cf0f06bfa518e4a38
Author: Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>
Date: Wed Oct 1 20:56:23 2014 -0700
Editorial fixes.
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* Rephrase some items.
* Fix typos.
diff --git a/src/general-info/release-20f.txt b/src/general-info/release-20f.txt
index 2cdc460..1dc4fb1 100644
--- a/src/general-info/release-20f.txt
+++ b/src/general-info/release-20f.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
========================== C M U C L 20 f =============================
-[In Progress]
-
The CMUCL project is pleased to announce the release of CMUCL 20f.
This is a major release which contains numerous enhancements and
-bug fixes from the 20c release.
+bug fixes from the 20e release.
CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp
programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It
@@ -19,12 +17,12 @@ over the Internet, and is mostly in the public domain.
New in this release:
* Known issues:
- * Support for x87 will be dropped after the 2014-04 snapshot. All
- further snapshots will require an x86 chip that supports sse2.
- SSE2 was introduced with the Pentium 4 in 2001.
+ * Support for x87 has been dropped (effective with the 2014-05
+ snapshot). All further releases will require an x86 chip that
+ supports sse2. SSE2 was introduced with the Pentium 4 in 2001.
* Feature enhancements
- * Trig functions are signficantly faster.
+ * Trig functions are significantly faster.
* Accuracy of trig functions improved. (Previously, they could be
off by one or two ulp.)
* RUN-PROGRAM accepts :ELEMENT-TYPE to allow specifying the
@@ -49,14 +47,14 @@ New in this release:
* Micro-optimization: (expt -1 power) just returns -1 or 1
without actually computing the power.
* Run-time checks for zero pages on newly allocated pages has been
- disabled now that the lazy zeroing of the heap pages has been
- the default for several months now.
+ disabled. Lazy zeroing of the heap pages is the default
+ now. which can speed up GC and allocation.
* Add lisp-unit as a contrib. Use (require :lisp-unit) to load
it. Precompiled fasls are not included.
* CMUCL now uses fdlibm C functions to implement the special
functions. All platforms use this so they should produce
identical results everywhere.
- * Consing for the trig functions is removed now since we call out
+ * Consing for the trig functions is reduced now since we call out
to fdlibm instead of implementing them in Lisp.
* Source location information has been added for
DEFINE-CONDITION. (From Helmut Eller.)
@@ -79,12 +77,12 @@ New in this release:
* On the ppc port, handle FP exceptions a bit better by not
failing if cmucl is unable to interpret the instruction that
caused the exception.
- * Microoptimization for sparc in rounding a double-float to a
+ * Micro-optimization for sparc in rounding a double-float to a
32-bit signed integer.
* The compiler can now derive the type of ROUND. (But more work is
needed.)
* Fix an issue with multi-processing destroy-process doesn't take
- effect for a schedulable processbecause it has no run-reason
+ effect for a schedulable process because it has no run-reason
and/or arrest-reason.
* ANSI compliance fixes:
@@ -120,7 +118,7 @@ New in this release:
cleared.
* In some situations KERNEL:DOUBLE-FLOAT-BITS on x86 would cause a
segfault. This has been fixed.
- * For linux, motifd is no longer a 64-bit app.
+ * For Linux, motifd is no longer a 64-bit app.
* (exp 1d0) now returns the correctly rounded value of
e. Previously, it was off by one bit.
* INTEGER-DECODE-FLOAT returns the correct values for denormal
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