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| # Version 1.0.0 (LLVM13) 2022-03-26 | ||
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| * Add ed hooks functionality for `ed` function. Accessible via `*ed-functions*` | ||
| dynamic variable. | ||
| * New compiled library format called FASP - it uses concatenated object files. | ||
| * Implemented `save-lisp-and-die`. This saves the state of a running environment | ||
| for loading and fast startup later. Our most complex environment Cando starts | ||
| up in ~4 seconds, which is 10x faster than the old startup that loaded | ||
| libraries. | ||
| * Atomics interface for lock-free concurrent programming, in the `mp:` package. | ||
| * Garbage collection hooks including finalizers. | ||
| * Specialized arrays for sub-byte integer types (int2, int4, etc.) | ||
| * Source tracking: Code locations are associated with source locations via | ||
| DWARF, to aid in debugging and project navigation. | ||
| * `clasp-debug` interface so that IDEs like SLIME can retrieve backtracces and | ||
| more to present during debugging. | ||
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| # Version 0.5.0 | ||
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| * Full integration of the Cleavir/[SICL][] compiler by Robert Strandh | ||
| * A nascent type inference system within Cleavir by Alex Wood | ||
| * LLVM whole program, Link-Time-Optimization | ||
| * Multi threading compatible with Bordeaux threads | ||
| * Unicode, 32bit wide characters | ||
| * Specialized arrays for many primitive types (int8, int16, int32, int64, | ||
| double, float) | ||
| * CFFI (C Foreign Function Interface) | ||
| * New build system based on waf (https://github.com/waf-project/waf) | ||
| * Code and file cleanup | ||
| * Better Emacs and Slime support including jumping to source (C++ and CL), | ||
| tab-completion and lambda-list display | ||
| * Many, many improvements and bug fixes | ||
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| # Version 0.4.0 | ||
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| * Clasp has a completely new compiler! The Cleavir Common Lisp compiler | ||
| developed by Robert Strandh as part of his SICL project. Cleavir is an | ||
| advanced compiler that generates fast code and is an excellent compiler for | ||
| testing advanced optimization algorithms. Cleavir carries out escape analysis | ||
| to properly assign variables to the stack/heap and it does aggressive | ||
| inlining. The best code that Cleavir generates has clocked within a factor of | ||
| four of the speed of C. For more details see [SICL][] | ||
| * Fixnum, character and single-float types are now immediate values and fixnums | ||
| are tagged using `#b000` in the bottom three bits to allow fast integer | ||
| arithmetic. | ||
| * General object pointers are tagged, cons cells have a separate tag to | ||
| accelerate are tagged. | ||
| * Building Clasp has been accelerated and now takes about 2.5 hours on a | ||
| reasonably powerful Linux system and 3.5 hours on OS X. | ||
| * Clbind library allows programmers to expose external C++ libraries to Clasp | ||
| Common Lisp. | ||
| * The build system has been improved and externals-clasp has been eliminated as | ||
| a requirement. | ||
| * Clasp version 0.4.0 is a Boehm only version of Clasp. The Memory Pool System | ||
| garbage collector is being tuned for Clasp and is planned to be in the 0.5.0 | ||
| release. | ||
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| # Version 0.11 | ||
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| * Added ASDF support. This is still alpha. Compile the ASDF module using | ||
| `(core:compile-asdf)`. After that you can load the module using | ||
| `(load "sys:kernel;asdf;build;asdf.bundle")`. It takes between 15-30 seconds | ||
| to load (this is why I'm integrating Cleavir). | ||
| * Added `:CLASP` to `*features*` and removed `:ECL` from `*features*`. Clasp | ||
| will continue to mimic the underlying ECL functionality so that Common Lisp | ||
| code that supports ECL can be made to support Clasp by converting `#+ecl` to | ||
| `#+(or ecl clasp)` and `#-ecl` to `#-(or ecl clasp)` | ||
| * Added code to generate object files directly from Clasp. The LLVM bitcode | ||
| compiler "llc" no longer needs to be in the PATH for Clasp to generate object | ||
| files from Common Lisp source. The "ld" linker does need to be accessible. | ||
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| [SICL]: https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL |