From f11a28a9f7a94a08daff620ed58885b5a9804764 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum@cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:04:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] * Added a dedications file.

---
 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 DEDICATIONS     | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 DEDICATIONS

diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
index 1a5a854..58b6a4f 100644
--- a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+++ b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
@@ -6,9 +6,13 @@ much harder.  I'm very thankful.
 
    Aziz,,,
 
+
 ====================================================================
 VERSION 0.0.2:
 
+- Everybody who took the time to email me when Ikarus was released.
+  Thanks for the encouragements.
+
 - Eric Hanchrow (offby1) reported the first public bug on bignum
   division error
 
@@ -16,7 +20,8 @@ VERSION 0.0.2:
   FreeBSD, increasing the number of supported platforms from 3 to 5.
   The Solaris port is still unfinished though.
 
-- Tom Gordon reported installation problems on 64-bit systems.
+- Tom Gordon reported installation problems on 64-bit systems which
+  resulted in improving the error report of the configure script.
 
 - Jens Axel Søgaard(and his brother) provided solutions for
   compiling Ikarus on 64-bit machines.
@@ -29,10 +34,11 @@ VERSION 0.0.2:
   making the command-line procedure consistent for scripts and
   interactive sessions, installing the boot file in a proper
   location (along with some help in using automake and autoconf),
-  and filed bug reports (on expt, modulo, error, get-line,
+  filed bug reports (on expt, modulo, error, get-line,
   number->string, truncate, fltruncate, flabs, substring,
-  define-record-type, put-u8, the expander, and the
-  compiler).
+  define-record-type, put-u8, the expander, and the compiler), and
+  helped cut startup time in half by instrumenting the ikarus
+  loader.
 
 - Phil Bewig wrote SRFI-41 (streams) in R6RS, which loads flawlessly
   in Ikarus.
@@ -45,9 +51,13 @@ VERSION 0.0.2:
   reading identifiers containing unicode escape sequences and
   corrected a minor bug with export classifications.
 
+- Kent Dybvig approved of an idea for optimizing closures that
+  resulted in cutting the bootstrap time in half.
+
 - Will Clinger indirectly reported that Ikarus does not support the
   #!r6rs comment.
 
+
 ====================================================================
 VERSION 0.0.1:
 
@@ -55,7 +65,7 @@ VERSION 0.0.1:
   release should build and install using the standard ./configure,
   make, make install sequence.   This made the lauch of Ikarus very
   successful as people had little or no problems building and
-  installing it.
+  installing it.  
 
 - Will Byrd gave suggestions about the minimum stuff that should go
   into the user's guide and suggested having a small R6RS tutorial.
diff --git a/DEDICATIONS b/DEDICATIONS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8444271
--- /dev/null
+++ b/DEDICATIONS
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+Ikarus is dedicated to the people who made Ikarus possible.
+
+To my advisor Kent Dybvig, 
+  for teaching me everything he knew about compilers, and 
+  for making Chez Scheme: an example to be followed.
+
+To my wife Ghaidaa,
+  for persevering with me during the hardships, and
+  for the thousands of hacking hours that she allowed for.
+
+To my parents,
+  for waiting, patiently, for their son in his voluntary 
+  exile.