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NEWS entries -- user-visible?


From: Andy Wingo
Subject: NEWS entries -- user-visible?
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:32:01 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Greets,

It seems that some of the NEWS entries that are currently there for the
1.9.0 release reflect awesomeness, but not awesomeness which users can
react to.

Specifically, I am going to remove the following NEWS entries, which are
great stuff but thankfully invisible to the user:

    ** Guile now uses Gnulib as a portability aid

    ** Primitive procedures (aka. "subrs") are now stored in double cells
    This removes the subr table and simplifies the code.

    ** Primitive procedures with more than 3 arguments (aka. "gsubrs") are
    no longer implemented using the "compiled closure" mechanism.  This
    simplifies code and reduces both the storage and run-time overhead.

Let me know any feedback you might have. I'll be working on compiling a
more comprehensive NEWS tonight and in the coming days.

Peace,

Andy
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