sbcl 2:1.1.15-1 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

sbcl (2:1.1.15-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream release
    changes in sbcl-1.1.15 relative to sbcl-1.1.14:
    * new feature: the iterative spilling/coloring register allocator developed
      by Alexandra Barchunova during Google Summer of Code 2013 is now merged
      in.  By default, it only activates for functions that optimize with
      (speed 3) and (> speed compilation-speed), but setting
      sb-regalloc:*register-allocation-method* to :iterative forces its
      execution.  The previous behaviour can be obtained by instead setting that
      variable to :greedy.  Thanks again to Google for their support, and, more
      crucially, to Alexandra Barchunova for her hard work.
    * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unknown dimensions is
      much faster.
    * optimization: make-array with unknown element-type is faster as well.
      (lp#1004501)
    * enhancement: sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die on Windows now accepts
      :application-type argument, which can be :console or :gui. :gui allows
      having GUI applications without an automatically appearing console window.
    * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms:
      conservative roots must be valid-looking tagged pointers or point
      within a code object, not merely point to within the allocated part
      of a page, in order to pin a page.
    * enhancement: support for "Mac Roman" external format.
    * enhancement: encapsulation of named generic functions now happens without
      altering the identity of the function bound to the name.
    * bug fix: Windows applications without the console window no longer misbehave.
      (patch by Wilfredo Velazquez, lp#1256034).
    * bug fix: modular arithmetic optimizations do not stumble on dead branches
      with bad constants. (reported by Douglas Katzman)
    * bug fix: CLISP can be used again as a cross-compilation host.
      (Thanks to Vasily Postnicov, lp#1261451)
    * bug fix: run-program crashed with :directory nil. (lp#1265077)

 -- Christoph Egger <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:17:03 +0100