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| 11 | <h1>Release Notes for ABCL 0.25</h1> |
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| 19 | <dt>New :resolve-symlinks keyword argument for DIRECTORY |
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| 21 | <dd>Passing NIL as the value for :resolve-symlinks prevents DIRECTORY from |
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| 22 | returning truenames. |
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| 24 | <dt>LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION now includes Subversion revision info |
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| 26 | <dd>`svnversion` is used to retrieve the state of the working copy |
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| 27 | being compiled from; the information is included in the value returned |
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| 28 | by lisp-implementation-version. |
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| 29 | </dd> |
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| 30 | <dt>Object instantiation speedups |
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| 32 | <dd>A cache has been implemented to reduce the number of calculatoins |
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| 33 | required when determining whether the keyword arguments to |
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| 34 | MAKE-INSTANCE and REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE are valid. |
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| 36 | <dt>Compiler refactoring to prevent further stack inconsistency errors |
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| 37 | </dt> |
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| 38 | <dd>Due to earlier changes to the compiler and the overall structure, |
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| 39 | the Java class verifier would detect 'stack inconsistency' issues |
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| 40 | in some specific cases. The refactoring should put an end to that. |
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| 41 | In the short term, however, this change could have a slightly destabilizing |
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| 42 | effect. Tests have been carried out, but no issues were found so far. |
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| 44 | <dd>Instantiation of forward referenced classes |
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| 45 | </dd> |
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| 46 | <dt>When trying to instantiate a forward referenced class, the user |
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| 47 | will not get a vague error anymore, but a clear error about |
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| 48 | the situation. |
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