[Sbcl-announce] sbcl-2.3.7 released

[Christophe Rhodes]

Dear all,

I have just released SBCL 2.3.7, tagged in source control and with
sources uploaded to SourceForge. The major changes in this release are
summarized below. Please compile responsibly.

Christophe

changes in sbcl-2.3.7 relative to sbcl-2.3.6:
* minor incompatible change: MACROLET macro functions are now compiled with
(SPEED 1), leading to fewer efficiency notes being emitted when compiled
in otherwise high-SPEED environments.
* minor incompatible change: when coalescing list data, the file compiler
respects substructure equality more accurately, with the side-effect of
coalescing along CDR chains as well as CARs. (lp#2025086)
* minor incompatible change: FUNCTION type declarations for local variables
generate assertions around their use when called.
* platform support
** on OpenBSD, the regression test suite expectations have been updated.
(lp#2026809, thanks to Sebastien Marie)
** on OpenBSD, the data limit is now 1GB. (lp#2027536, thanks to
Sebastien Marie)
** on Darwin with the SB-FUTEX feature, do not use unpaired
mach_thread_self() syscalls, avoiding resource leaks when creating
threads.
** on 64-bit RISCV, add support for some REM-by-multiplication
optimizations.
** on Windows, work around a C compiler bug relating to SYSV_ABI.
* bug fix: FILE-POSITION on string output streams no longer crashes or
causes arbitrary memory overwrites. (lp#1839040)
* bug fix: the compiler no longer constant-folds POSITION to NIL if the
START or END arguments are not valid.
* optimization: the compiler derives types of &KEY arguments in local calls.
(lp#655562)
* optimization: type tests of values of known union type can be faster if
the type being tested for has a non-trivial intersection with the known
type.
* optimization: the low-level implementation of NUMBERP, REALP and RATIONALP
has been improved on x86-64 and arm64.
* optimization: the compiler removes known-NIL arguments from calls to
APPEND and NCONC, and empty sequences from calls to CONCATENATE.
* optimization: checks for symbols being bindable are now memoized, speeding
up compiled uses of PROGV.
* optimization: SLOT-VALUE on STRUCTURE-OBJECTs with non-constant slot-name
argument is faster.



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