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* NEWS: Add 2.9.2 information.
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Guile NEWS --- history of user-visible changes.
Copyright (C) 1996-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 1996-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
Changes in alpha 2.9.2 (since alpha 2.9.1):
* Notable changes
** Just-in-time code generation support on ARMv7, ia32, AArch64
This release adds just-in-time (JIT) native code generation for the
ia32, ARMv7, and AArch64 platforms, in addition to the x86-64 support
already present in 2.9.1.
** Cheaper just-in-time code generation
Guile now includes a forked version of GNU Lightning. This "Lightening"
effort, spun out as a separate project, aims to build on the back-end
support from GNU Lightning, but adapting the API and behavior of the
library to match Guile's needs.
One of the important points that this project fixes is run-time
overhead. With the adoption of Lightening, Guile has lowered its
thresholds for when to generate native code at run-time, so that user
programs run faster, sooner.
For more information, see https://gitlab.com/wingo/lightening.
Changes in alpha 2.9.1 (since the stable 2.2 series):