source: trunk/abcl/CHANGES @ 12073

Version 0.16.0
(unreleased)

  Summary of changes:
  * Better initarg checking for make-instance and change-class. Fixes ansi-test
    errors CHANGE-CLASS.1.11, MAKE-INSTANCE.ERROR.3, MAKE-INSTANCE.ERROR.4,
    CHANGE-CLASS.ERROR.4 and SHARED-INITIALIZE.ERROR.4.
  * Improve performance of StackFrames (Erik Huelsmann, Ville Voutilainen,
    with input from Peter Graves and Douglas Miles)
  * Improve performance of CLOS eql-specializers via cache (Anton Vodonosov).
  * 'build-from-lisp.sh' shell script (Tobias Rittweiler).
  * New threading primitives aligned with Java/JVM constructs (Erik Huelsmann)

      SYNCHRONIZED-ON
      OBJECT-NOTIFY
      OBJECT-NOTIFY-ALL

  * THREADS package created to hold threads related primitives: 

      THREADP THREAD-UNLOCK THREAD-LOCK THREAD-NAME THREAD-ALIVE-P
      CURRENT-THREAD DESTROY-THREAD INTERRUPT-THREAD WITH-THREAD-LOCK
      MAKE-THREAD-LOCK MAKE-THREAD INTERRUPT-THREAD

      MAPCAR-THREADS
      
      GET-MUTEX MAKE-MUTEX WITH-MUTEX RELEASE-MUTEX

    These primitives are still part of the EXTENSIONS package but are
    now to be considered as deprecated, marked to be removed with
    0.22.

  
Version 0.15.0
(07 Jun, 2009) 

 Summary of changes:
  * 2 more MOP exported symbols to support Cells port
  * Updated FASL version
  * Support (pre)compilation of functions with a non-null lexical environment
  * Compiler and precompiler cleanups
  * 'rt.lisp' copy from ANSI test suite removed
  * Many documentation additions for the (pre)compiler
  * JSR-233 support improvements
  * Refactoring of classes:
   - deleted: CompiledFunction, ClosureTemplateFunction, CompiledClosure,
              Primitive0R, Primitive1R, Primitive2R
   - renamed: CompiledClosure [from ClosureTemplateFunction]
  * Compiler support for non-constant &key and &optional initforms
  * Fixed ticket #21: JVM stack inconsistency [due to use of RET/JSR]
  * Numerous special bindings handling fixes, especially with respect
    to (local) transfer of control with GO/RETURN-FROM
  * Paths retrieved using URL.getPath() require decoding (r11815)
  * Build doesn't work inside paths with spaces (r11813)
  * Compilation of export of a symbol not in *package* (r11808)
  * Moved compiler-related rewriting of forms from precompiler to compiler
  * Removed chained closures ('XEPs') in case of &optional arguments only
  * Loading of SLIME fails under specific conditions (r11791)
  * Binding of *FASL-ANONYMOUS-PACKAGE* breaks specials handling (r11783)
  * Fixed ANSI tests: DO-ALL-SYMBOLS.{6,9,12}, DEFINE-SETF-EXPANDER.{1,6,?},
      MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ.{5,8}, SYMBOL-MACROLET.8, COMPILE-FILE.{17,18}
  * COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE second and third values after a failed
      invocation inside the same compilation-unit (r11769)
  * JCLASS on non-existing classes should signal an error (r11762)
  * Dotted lambda lists break interpretation (r11760)
  * Implementation of MACROEXPAND-ALL and COMPILER-LET (r11755)
  * Switch from casting to 'instanceof' for performance (r11754)
  * Google App Engine support: don't die if 'os.arch' isn't set (r11750)
  * Excessive stack use while resolving #n= and #n# (r11474)


Version 0.14.1
(5 Apr, 2009)
svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.14.1/abcl

 Summary of changes:
  * Include this CHANGES file and scripting files in the tar and zip files


Version 0.14.0
(5 Apr, 2009)
svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.14.0/abcl

 Summary of changes:
  * Increased clarity on licensing (Classpath exception
     mentioned in COPYING, removed LICENSE)
  * Resolved infinite recursion on TRACEing the compiler
  * Changes on the lisp based build system for parity with Ant
  * Fixed interpreter creation in Java Scripting
  * libabcl.so no longer created; it was solely about installing
     a SIGINT handler. Libraries should not do that.
  * boxing of LispObject descendants in JCALL/JCALL-RAW fixed
  * OpenBSD and NetBSD platform detection
  * fixed special bindings restores in compiled code for
     MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND/LET/LET*/PROGV and function bodies
  * introduced variadic list() function to replace list1() ... list9()
  * fix return value type of ACOS with complex argument
  * fixed precision of multiplication of complex values
  * fixed use of COMPILE inside file compilation (i.e. COMPILE-FILE)
  * fix expansion of macros inside RESTART-CASE
     (fixes RESTART-CASE ANSI failures)
  * fix macroexpansion in the precompiler
  * Fixnum and Bignum now use a static factory method;
      constructors are now private -> increases chances of numbers
      being EQ
  * Code cleanup in EXPT to fix (EXPT <any-number> <Bignum>)


Version 0.13.0
(28 Feb, 2009)
svn://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/svn/tags/0.13.0/abcl

 Summary of changes:
  * Separated J and ABCL into two trees
  * Many many compiler code cleanups
  * NetBeans project files
  * Support for CDR6 (See http://cdr.eurolisp.org/document/6/)
  * More efficient code emission in the compiler
  * Ant build targets for testing (abcl.test)
  * Use ConcurrentHashMap to store the lisp threads for increased performance
  * Fix adjustability of expressly adjustable arrays (ticket #28)
  * Fix calculation of upperbound on ASH in the compiler
     (don't calculate numbers too big, instead, return '*')
  * Introduce LispInteger as the super type of Bignum and Fixnum
  * Boxing/unboxing for SingleFloat and DoubleFloat values,
      inclusive of unboxed calculations
  * Fixed URL decoding bug in loadCompiledFunction (use java.net.URLDecoder)
  * Fixed line number counting
  * Inlining of simple calculations (+/-/*)
  * All static fields declared 'final'
  * Add support for java.lang.Long based on Bignum to our FFI