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========================== C M U C L 18 c =============================
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December 25, 2000
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The CMUCL project is pleased to announce the release of CMUCL 18c.
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This is a major release which contains numerous enhancements and
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bugfixes from the 18b release.
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CMUCL is a free, high performance implementation of the Common Lisp
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programming language which runs on most major Unix platforms. It
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mainly conforms to the ANSI Common Lisp standard. CMUCL provides a
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sophisticated native code compiler; a powerful foreign function
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interface; an implementation of CLOS; the Common Lisp Object System;
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which includes multimethods and a metaobject protocol; a source-level
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debugger and code profiler; and an Emacs-like editor implemented in
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Common Lisp. CMUCL is maintained by a team of volunteers collaborating
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over the Internet, and is in the public domain.
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Features new in this release:
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* Every platform now supports `(complex single-float)` and
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* Every platform now supports signed-array's with elements of type
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* On the x86 and sparc platform, much larger heaps are available.
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* Support for glibc2 on x86.
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* Support for FreeBSD 4.x, Solaris 2.7 & 8.
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* Better support for Sparc V9 machines (UltraSparc II and later).
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* Better handling of logical pathnames and pathnames in general.
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* equalp hash tables implemented.
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* New implementations of some sequence functions to run significantly
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* Specialized arrays and various other objects can be printed readably
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* `LOCALLY` is a special form, not a macro.
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* `COMPILER-LET` is now in the extension package.
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* `PRINT-OBJECT` methods can be used with structures. (But the
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* The dynamic heap size is now controllable from the command line with
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* The {{[-batch``` commandline option flushes all output on exit, and
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* A new `-quiet` commandline to suppress informational messages.
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* `:cmu17` is no longer a `*feature*`. This may break existing code. A
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Some sparc-specific changes:
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* Bigger spaces:
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* Added VOPS for complex single/double-float operations.
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* Try not to use deprecated instructions in the V9 architecture.
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* In certain situations, use conditional move instructions available
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And finally,
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* Lots and lots of bug fixes, improvements to ANSI CL conformance
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This release is not binary compatible with code compiled using CMUCL
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18b; you will need to recompile FASL files.
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See <URL:http://www.cons.org/cmucl/> for download information, guidelines
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on reporting bugs, and mailing list details.
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We hope you enjoy using this release of CMUCL! |