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[Guile-commits] 01/02: Update NEWS.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[Guile-commits] 01/02: Update NEWS. |
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Sun, 21 Jun 2020 16:50:48 -0400 (EDT) |
civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guile.
commit 492717db95c69bd6ab26de33808ebcd5804d2a5e
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Jun 21 22:16:58 2020 +0200
Update NEWS.
* NEWS: Update.
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NEWS | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 591eb8b..c11e266 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ These replace the wonky "bit-set*!" procedure.
Previously statprof would show strings like "anon #x1234" for primitives
written in C.
+** Compiler reduces 'equal?' when passed a character literal
+
+The compiler now properly reduces expressions such as (equal? c #\x) to
+(eq? c #\x). This was not the case in 3.0.2, which could lead to slower
+code, especially in 'match' expressions with many clauses with with
+character literals.
+
** JIT bugs on ARMv7 have been fixed
(<https://bugs.gnu.org/40737>,
<https://gitlab.com/wingo/lightening/-/issues/12>)