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| 19 | <dt>No more failures in Maxima's test suite</dt> |
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| 20 | <dd>Working together with the developers from the Maxima program, we've been |
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| 21 | able to identify the causes for the last few remaining failures and |
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| 22 | apply fixes - mostly to ABCL, but some in Maxima too. Thanks guys!</dd> |
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| 23 | <dt>Fixes to stop JRockit JVM's optimizer from crashing</dt> |
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| 24 | <dd>Some specific aspects of the byte code we generated was a problem |
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| 25 | for the optimizer in JRockit JVM. JRockit has been fixed, but the release |
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| 26 | won't be out for some time. Since we identified the offending code, we |
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| 27 | decided to change our byte code as well.</dd> |
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| 28 | <dt>Fixes to CLOS thread safety.</dt> |
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| 29 | <dd>Taking advantage of the java.util.concurrent package, we have both been |
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| 30 | able to eliminate many synchronized blocks, reducing chances for |
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| 31 | contention as well as increasing protection by using types with built-in |
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| 32 | protection. |
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| 34 | <dt>Updated ASDF2</dt> |
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| 35 | <dd>ASDF2 has been updated to its latest version 2.010.1</dd> |
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| 36 | <dt>Experimental support for the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION</dt> |
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| 37 | <dd>Support for the long form of DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION has been added, |
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| 38 | however, this support is derived from Sacla and XCL, which probably means |
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| 39 | that the code hasn't been excercised all that much and does contain |
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| 40 | bugs. You're strongly urged to help debug and define test-cases in order |
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| 41 | to fix any issues in the code.</dd> |
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| 42 | <dt>A new (generic) class writer</dt> |
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| 43 | <dd>Our compiler used to contain code to generate class files which exactly |
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| 44 | match ABCL's usage patterns. However, in order to expand ABCL's compiler |
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| 45 | possibilities - as well as providing support for extension of Java classes |
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| 46 | at runtime - a more generic class file generator is required. We have one |
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| 47 | now! </dd> |
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