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MKCL 1.1.11 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 03 May '19

03 May '19

MKCL 1.1.11 <http://common-lisp.net/project/mkcl/releases/MKCL-1.1.11.tar.gz> is now available for general use on the MKCL <http://common-lisp.net/project/mkcl> page along with the usual set of pre-compiled binaries for MS-Windows. This release is mostly a consolidation of all the bug fixes accumulated along the last 2 years and a half or so. Please consult the log on MKCL's gitlab repository <https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/mkcl/mkcl> for a detailed account of the changes. The content of the "contrib" directory has also been updated. Most notably, ASDF is now at 3.3.3 and CFFI at 0.20.0. Now, the future of MKCL is in somewhat of a state of flux. Changes to the code structure of what is currently evolving to become MKCL 1.2.0 have been extremely extensive. So much so that I have deemed best to drop this current code base and to rather start a complete rewrite from scratch that would then import the best and most recent parts of the previous code base when appropriate. The current work on MKCL 1.2.0 has already shown that great performance improvements both in time and space could be accomplished. The rewrite has clearly the potential to push this much further... Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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MKCL 1.1.10 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

MKCL 1.1.10 <http://common-lisp.net/project/mkcl/releases/mkcl-1.1.10.tar.gz> is now available for general use on the MKCL <http://common-lisp.net/project/mkcl> page along with the usual set of pre-compiled binaries for MS-Windows. This release is mostly a consolidation of all the bug fixes accumulated along the last 2 years and a half or so. Please consult the log on MKCL's gitlab repository <https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/mkcl/mkcl> for a detailed account of the changes. The content of the "contrib" directory has also been updated. Most notably, ASDF is now at 3.1.7 and CFFI at 0.18.0. Going back to MKCL 1.2.0 and its spectacular performance improvements both in time and space... Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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Re: mkcl-announce Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1
by Mark Andrews 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

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[Mkcl-announce] C-based runtime of MKCL passes Coverity scan.
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Hello all, I am happy to announce you that the C-based runtime of MKCL has passed with great success the scrutiny of the source code scanning tool of Coverity. After a bit more than a week of use of that tool, Coverity now reports a defect density of 0.01 per 1000 lines for MKCL C-runtime on Linux and a defect density of 0.00 per 1000 lines for MKCL C-runtime on Microsoft Windows (Win32 and Win64). The code submitted to Coverity for these results currently sits in our Github repository on head of the master branch. This code will be the basis of upcoming version 1.1.10. I hope to release 1.1.10 in a few weeks, after some updates to its "contrib" bundle. Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[Mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.9 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

MKCL 1.1.9 is now available for general use. For the most part it is a compilation of minor bug fixes along with one notable sub-component upgrade, i.e.: the GC has been upgraded from bdwgc 7.2c to bdwgc 7.4 in hope it will be a better fit for the upcoming ARM/iOS/Android ports. One relevant change in the GC configuration happened on all MS-Windows versions where it is now hard configured to avoid the use of function SignalObjectAndWait since Microsoft has reneged on its promise of atomic behavior. If you observe a deadlock of MKCL 1.1.8 or earlier on MS-Windows 7 or later this would be a possible cause. You should then either upgrade to MKCL 1.1.9 or later, or set the environment variable MK_GC_MARKERS to 0 in order to prevent parallel marking and its use of SignalObjectAndWait. I hope that MKCL 1.1.9 will be the last in the MKCL 1.1.X line before the release of MKCL 1.2.0 in the coming months. Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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MKCL 1.1.8 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

MKCL 1.1.8 is now available for general use. It is mostly a large bug fix compilation release but with the peculiarity that it was mainly driven by the need to upgrade bundled ASDF from ASDF 2.26 to ASDF 3.0.3. As usual, please consult http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/mkcl/mkcl.git if you need a detailed log. Now, back to MKCL 1.2.0... Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin P.S.: Please don't look for MKCL 1.1.7, it never became a release although it came very close. It has been quickly replaced by MKCL 1.1.8 after correction of a critical bug that was quietly present on all MKCL's platforms but severely affected MKCL on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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MKCL 1.1.6 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 14 Sep '13

14 Sep '13

MKCL 1.1.6 is now available for general use. It is a bug fix compilation release that collects all changes currently committed to the MKCL git repository, please consult http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/mkcl/mkcl.git if you need a detailed log. In the meantime, MKCL 1.2.0 is making steady progress... Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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Re: MKCL 1.1.5 is now available, Resent for the sake of Gmane archiving
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

mkcl-announce and mkcl-devel should be available on Gmane from now on. Cheers, J.-C. On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Jean-Claude Beaudoin < jean.claude.beaudoin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > MKCL 1.1.5 is now available for general use. It is a bug fix compilation > release > that collects all changes currently committed to the MKCL git repository, > please consult http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/mkcl/mkcl.git if > you need a detailed log. > > The creation of yet another bug fix release in the MKCL 1.1.X series is > due to the fact that work on MKCL 1.2.0 has hit a bump recently and > its release will be delayed by a few more months, making a bug > fix release therefore relevant. > > Upon careful inspection of the major defining macros part of MKCL > it was realized that a good number of them were not ANSI compliant > but rather conformed to CLTL2 with a few still only CLTL1 or > somewhere in between (but clearly not ANSI). To correct this > situation macros defmacro, defsetf and deftype have been > completely reimplemented. This effort is the cause of a two months > delay in the evolution of MKCL 1.2.0. > > Cheers, > > Jean-Claude Beaudoin > >

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MKCL 1.1.5 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

MKCL 1.1.5 is now available for general use. It is a bug fix compilation release that collects all changes currently committed to the MKCL git repository, please consult http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/mkcl/mkcl.git if you need a detailed log. The creation of yet another bug fix release in the MKCL 1.1.X series is due to the fact that work on MKCL 1.2.0 has hit a bump recently and its release will be delayed by a few more months, making a bug fix release therefore relevant. Upon careful inspection of the major defining macros part of MKCL it was realized that a good number of them were not ANSI compliant but rather conformed to CLTL2 with a few still only CLTL1 or somewhere in between (but clearly not ANSI). To correct this situation macros defmacro, defsetf and deftype have been completely reimplemented. This effort is the cause of a two months delay in the evolution of MKCL 1.2.0. Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.4 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

MKCL 1.1.4 is now available for general use. It is a bug fix compilation release that collects all changes currently committed to the MKCL git repository, please consult http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/mkcl/mkcl.git if you need a detailed log. MKCL 1.1.4 is most likely to be (nearly) the last release in the 1.1.X series since work on MKCL 1.2.0 is moving fast and will near completion in a few weeks with a significant number of new features. Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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