diff --git a/general-info/release-19b.txt b/general-info/release-19b.txt index 12b8ee6937c03fde5449925ae670a72af0b4fb4b..d1a090967c5b8585d4b8bf0b601c2e72c47d3021 100644 --- a/general-info/release-19b.txt +++ b/general-info/release-19b.txt @@ -23,14 +23,20 @@ New in this release: faster bignum reader. - Extended REQUIRE to support *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS* from SBCL. - - NetBSD supported + - NetBSD supported. - SIMPLE-STREAM fixes: o READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE for signed-byte/unsigned-byte 8 streams. o Memory-mapped file streams. - Large file support for Solaris, so CMUCL can handle files larger than 2GB. - - Support for Mac OS X + - Support for Mac OS X. + - A much faster GCD implementation. + - A faster Karatsuba multiplier when the number of words of the + bignums is not a power of 2. (Break-even is still around 1500 + bits, though.) + - New command-line switch -debug-lisp-search to show how lisp is + searching for its core file. * Numerous ANSI compliance fixes: - FILE-AUTHOR should signal errors appropriately. @@ -52,7 +58,9 @@ New in this release: returned for negative args. - EXPT sometimes returne NaN instead of 1 when the power was 0. - Weak pointers don't have O(n^2) GC behavior anymore. - + - X11 authorization changes to solve problems seen with servers + that don't listen to TCP connection requests. + * Other changes: * Improvements to the PCL implementation of CLOS: