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Re: [Gcl-devel] GCL 2.6.12 is released
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Camm Maguire |
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Re: [Gcl-devel] GCL 2.6.12 is released |
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Tue, 28 Oct 2014 20:10:14 -0400 |
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Greetings, and thanks! Indeed, an oversight now remedied.
Take care,
Blake McBride <address@hidden> writes:
> Should there be a GIT tag named "Version_2_6_12"?
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Greetings! The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version
> 2.6.12, the latest achievement in the 'stable' (as opposed to
> 'development') series. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for
> downloading information.
>
> This release was largely motivated to accelerate closure construction
> and compiler hash table performance for ACL2(h). Along the way,
> support was added for ACL2 static-consing, making GCL at present one
> of two lisps offering this optimization for very large and heavy jobs.
> This release also features a TAGS target in make, a variety of
> compiler speed improvements, an overhaul and standardization of the
> error, conditions, and restart systems, protection of system and fork
> from SIGPROF, and getc/putc from SIGINT, faster l2 list functions and
> nani/address, proper handling of missing objdump and generic TMP
> environment variables, processing of mismatched fast-link calls slowly
> without error, ppc64le and aarch64 fixes, support for the
> si::*link-list* fast-linking diagnostic, more robust segfault
> trapping, and full pathname fixes to the unradomize/re-exec
> mechanism.
>
> Take care,
> --
> Camm Maguire address@hidden
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