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@ -6,17 +6,23 @@ Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
Changes in alpha 2.9.3 (since alpha 2.9.2):
Changes in alpha 2.9.4 (since alpha 2.9.3):
* Notable changes
** Improved just-in-time machine code generation
** Improved compilation of `sqrt' and `abs'
Guile's JIT compiler emits better code for indirect procedure calls,
atomic instructions, numeric comparisons, procedure prologues,
well-known closures with no free variables, calls and returns, and
allocations. Together these improvements can speed up some benchmarks
by up to 50%.
Heavy floating-point computations that use `sqrt' and `abs' will be
faster, as the compiler can unbox inexact rationals (flonums) in more
cases.
** Improved compilation of internal `define'
Internal definitions -- like the `define' in `(let () (define x 10)
...)` -- are now compiled more optimally, using the algorithm from
Ghuloum and Dybvig's "Fixing Letrec (reloaded)" paper. This change
makes internal `define' just as efficient as `let', `let*', `letrec',
and similar.