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Just stumbled on Planet Emacsen. At last, there is an aggregation for Emacs-related blogs. Currently it doesn’t seem to filter emacs unrelated posts, but I guess that will happen over time.

Today, the SBCL team released the long awaited version 1.0. Besides the bugfixes, this version introduces several interesting optimizations:

• method calls with &OPTIONAL or &KEY arguments are faster and don’t cause extra consing
• MAP and MAP-INTO are significantly faster on vectors whose elements types have been declared.
• Improvements to SB-SPROF:
  • Support for allocation profiling
  • Reduced profiling overhead, especially for long profiling runs

There are also improvements to the Windows port.

Great work! Congratulations, guys.