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post	Released Cyclone Scheme 0.32.0	Added support for Alpine Linux and made several improvements to the garbage collector.

Features

Initiate major garbage collections faster after allocating a huge object (larger than 500K). This allows the system to reclaim the memory faster and keep overall memory usage low for certain workloads.
Cyclone will no longer memoize pure functions by default.
Added build option CYC_PTHREAD_SET_STACK_SIZE to allow Cyclone to specify a thread stack size rather than using the OS default. EG:
```
make CYC_PTHREAD_SET_STACK_SIZE=1 libcyclone.a
```

Bug Fixes

@nmeum fixed (scheme repl) to flush the output port prior to writing the prompt, guaranteeing the prompt is written at the correct time.
Fixed fxbit-set? to properly handle negative values of i.
Avoid unnecessary renaming of identifiers when the interpreter performs macro expansion.
When allocating a large vector we now guarantee all vector elements are initialized before the major collector can trace those elements. This avoids the potential for a race condition which could lead to a segmentation fault.
Ensure atomic objects are properly traced by the major garbage collector.