MKCL 1.0.0 is finally out as a stable full release!
Thank you very much to all of you (you know who you are) that privately
contributed to this outcome. I appreciate your support.
I have high hopes that this the beginning of a very long run that will prove
MKCL to be one of the most solid and stable Common Lisp environments ever.
Cheers,
Jean-Claude Beaudoin
RC7 is the happy conclusion of the performance tuning effort for version
1.0.0. With proper type annotation, MKCL can now generate near-optimal code
that brings it to (and sometimes exceeds) the top of the class speed-wise on
the large majority of benchmarks of cl-bench. Release Candidate 7 will from
now on enter a 2 to 3 weeks probation period that will bring the 1.0.0
release process to its conclusion provided that no major new bug is reported
before the end of this probation period.
RC6 is a significant performance tuning step for the most part. Code
controlling floating-point exception handling has also been entirely
reworked. The --enable-unicode option is now working again but is still off
by default and remains experimental.
The performance difficulties were considered serious enough to postpone the
completion of the 1.0.0 release process.
There will be one last release candidate (7) before final release. It will
complete the performance tuning, fix a few minor
issues in slime and be a general opportunity to clean-up the source code.
RC5 is a general upgrade of the "contrib" libraries and of the MinGW support
environment included in the MS-Windows versions.
A few more bugs were fixed.
Short of a major bug discovery, RC5 is very likely to be the last major step
before the final 1.0.0 release.
MKCL 1.0.0 Release Candidate 4 is now available.
RC4 is a much stronger release candidate that RC3.
You are strongly advised to upgrade to it and stop using any of RC1, RC2 and
RC3.
Cheers,
Jean-Claude Beaudoin
RC3 brings you binary installation packages for MS-Windows, an upgrade of
the included GMP to 4.3.2, and a few more bug fixes.
With this, it is getting close to full release time!
Cheers,
Jean-Claude Beaudoin
MKCL 1.0.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available.
RC2 is a much stronger release candidate that RC1.
You are strongly advised to upgrade to it and stop using RC1.
Cheers,
Jean-Claude Beaudoin