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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.

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