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- Copyright (c) Xerox Corporation 1988. All rights reserved.
-
-
- These notes correspond to the "12/7/88 Can't think of a cute name PCL"
- version of PCL.
-
- Please read this entire file carefully. You may also be interested in
- looking at previous versions of the notes.text file. These are called
- xxx-notes.text where xxx is the version of the PCL system the file
- corresponds to. At least the last two versions of this file contain
- useful information for any PCL user.
-
- This version of PCL has been tested at PARC in the following Common
- Lisps:
-
- Symbolics 7.2
- Coral 1.2
- Lucid 3.0
- KCL (October 15, 1987)
- Allegro 3.0.1
-
- These three should work, but haven't been tested just yet.
-
- EnvOS Medley
- TI
-
- The notes file hasn't yet been fleshed out yet.
-
- The two major changes in this release are:
-
- - The generic function cache algorithm has been revised. In addition
- generic function caches now expand automatically. Programs that used
- to run into problems with lots of cache misses shouldn't run into
- those problems anymore.
-
- - the DEFCONSTRUCTOR hack now works. Please see the construct.lisp
- file for details. If you are consing lots of instances, you may be
- able to get a tremendous performance boost by using this hack.
-
-
- Another important change is that this version includes some KCL patches
- which dramatically improve PCL performance in KCL. See the kcl-mods.text
- file for more details.
-
-
-