[Chicken-users] chicken 4.5.7

[Felix]

Hello!

A new development snapshot is now available:

  http://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2010/08/10/chicken-4.5.7.tar.gz


4.5.7

- the licenses used in all components of the core system have
  been collected in the LICENSE file (Thanks to Peter Bex)
- Added new compiler option `-no-module-registration' which
  omits generation of module registration code, even when
  generation of import libraries has not been enabled
- running `chicken' without arguments now hints at the
  existence of `csi' and `csc'
- `caar', `cdar' abnd `cddr' generate faster code
- calls to `list', `vector' and the internal structure
  allocation primitive that take 1 to 8 arguments generate
  faster code
- `chicken-install' now checks the version of the setup
  configuration file `setup.defaults'
- added option `-exact' to `chicken-status' and `chicken-uninstall',
  which treats the pattern argument as the literal name of the
  extension to be listed/deinstalled
- `assert' shows line-number information, if available
  (suggested by Alejandro Forero Cuervo)
- interpreted code records the lexical-environment at call-
  sites, which can in case of an error be inspected with the
  new `,c', `,f' and `,g' toplevel commands
- the evaluation-result history in `csi' can be inspected and
  cleared (to reduce memory load) with the toplevel commands
  `,h' and `,ch'
- unit `data-structures': deprecated `left-section' and 
  `right-section'
- fixed bug that caused the static syntax-environment of 
  syntax exported by a module to be incomplete
- module `setup-api': Documented the `version>=?' procedure
- unit `posix': `utc-time->seconds' is considerably 
  faster on Mac OS X (thanks to Jim Ursetto)
- the `time' macro now shows the correct number of minor
  garbage collections
- the immediate-object check inside the marking procedure
  of the garbage collector has been manually inlined which
  results in a significant GC speedup, depending on memory
  load
- unit `srfi-18' and `scheduler': various bugfixes (thanks
  to Joerg Wittenberger)
- unit `srfi-4': bugfix in 8-bit vector allocation routines
  (thanks to Kon Lovett)


cheers,
felix