SBCL 12.5 months after 1.0 #
hacking, December 17th 2007
It is now a bit over a year since SBCL 1.0 was released.
Author: William Harold Newman
Date: Thu Nov 30 02:36:43 2006 +0000
1.0:
release, will be tagged as sbcl_1_0
What's changed since then? I'll list my own favorites here (in reverse order of appearance).
- Hash-tables with synchronization support over multiple accesses.
- Compare and swap support on several kinds of places.
- Support for user-defined subclasses of SPECIALIZER.
- Code coverage support.
- XREF support.
- Support for user-defined subclasses of SEQUENCE.
Not counting optimizations or bugfixes here at all. If I was, I'd make a big deal about how SBCL threads are finally starting to mature. Or list Big-Oh / order of magnitude optimizations. Or rant about the old chestnut, interrupt-safety...
Maybe it's time to start thinking about 1.1...