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http://jikesrvm.svn.sourceforge.net/jikesrvm/?rev=15709&view=rev Author: dgrove-oss Date: 2009-06-12 13:13:43 +0000 (Fri, 12 Jun 2009) Log Message: ----------- committing 3.1.0 NEWS to trunk; thought I had done this when making release. Modified Paths: -------------- rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt Modified: rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt =================================================================== --- rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt 2009-06-12 06:48:58 UTC (rev 15708) +++ rvmroot/trunk/NEWS.txt 2009-06-12 13:13:43 UTC (rev 15709) @@ -5,12 +5,104 @@ This file contains the release notes since Jikes RVM 2.0.0, released on October 14, 2001, -* Jikes RVM 3.0.2 (Future) +* Jikes RVM 3.1.1 (Future) NOTE: Release notes are generated directly from JIRA. If you want something mentioned in the release notes, make sure there is -a JIRA item for it that when it is closed, you make it as fixed for 3.0.2. +a JIRA item for it that when it is closed, you make it as fixed for 3.1.1. +* Jikes RVM 3.1.0 (June 10, 2009) + +It's been almost nine months since the release of Jikes RVM 3.0.1, and +quite a bit has changed in Jikes RVM. + +We'd like to call out several items that may be of particular interest +to the community. + 1. Jikes RVM has switched to using native threading instead of + m-to-n (aka green) threading. + 2. The default mature space collector has changed from Mark-Sweep to Immix. + 3. Jikes RVM is now licensed under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). + 4. The 3.1 release significantly improves over the performance of + 3.0.1, with speedups of 10% and 21% on average for DaCapo and SPEC + benchmarks respectively on an Intel C2Q. Highlights include a 29% + improvement in jbb and a 32% improvement in jython. + +Details are given below, or are browsable online in our JIRA instance +at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM/fixforversion/14620. + +** New Feature + * [RVM-641] - Make Immix the default mature space collector + * [RVM-682] - Assertion checking in sysMalloc + * [RVM-802] - Debugging hooks in MMTk + * [RVM-806] - Heavyweight sanity checker for MMTk Harness + * [RVM-807] - Simple type system for MMTk Harness scripting language + +** Bug + * [RVM-460] - Not accounting for nursery promotion AND defrag in GenImmix + * [RVM-498] - ppc-linux32 dying on SPEC jbb 2005 with 4 threads + * [RVM-613] - asking if a method has a hasBaselineSaveLSRegistersAnnotation triggers classloading (and thus GC) when GC is disabled during OSR + * [RVM-625] - FullAdaptiveImmix and FullAdaptiveStickyImmix broken on ppc32-linux + * [RVM-638] - Crash in Poisoned configs on PPC (aix/linux, 32/64) apparently relating to clone + * [RVM-662] - Error growing discontiguous space + * [RVM-664] - Occasional digest validation errors on lusearch performance runs + * [RVM-683] - Fix race in AOS controller/organizer synchronication during startup + * [RVM-690] - Class loader and reflection problems for unboxed types + * [RVM-696] - Don't recomend copying project contents with eclipse-project + * [RVM-698] - Don't clear most significant bits for <32bit return types on Intel [breaks Ubuntu 8.10] + * [RVM-700] - Not running class initializer for InetAddress causing ServerSocket failures + * [RVM-701] - Edge Counter and Dynamic Call Graph output after run fails + * [RVM-703] - Throwable.getStackTrace() implementation is incorrect + * [RVM-704] - Regressions from 2.9.1 not allowing jetty web server to run + * [RVM-708] - Bad reference map created by IA32 baseline compiler + * [RVM-712] - Uninterruptible code should not be allowed to call UnpremptibleNoWarn methods + * [RVM-722] - Bug in Static Spliting induces unconditional OSR invalidations when running _228_jack in measure compilation mode + * [RVM-729] - enabling simple_escape_ipa causes a ClassCastException + * [RVM-732] - Exception in thread "MainThread" java.security.AccessControlException: permission (java.lang.RuntimePermission exitVM) not granted: no protection domains + * [RVM-733] - rvm crash when closing a file in ExitMonitor.notifyExit(int value) + * [RVM-738] - Fix debugging output when extracting long variable values for OSR + * [RVM-743] - compress-3GC fails with OOME + * [RVM-744] - Terminal not in grammar: read_ceiling (BURS) + * [RVM-748] - Bug in type checking when > 32767 types + * [RVM-756] - Intel unnecessarily restricts boot image to be at addresses > 0x30000000 + * [RVM-774] - Incorrect implementation of static initializers in the case of initializers that throw exceptions + * [RVM-795] - Baseline GC Maps with JSRs fails to set reference flag for aload operations + * [RVM-800] - In TemplateCompilerFramework.genCode, case JBC_anewarray, I don't believe that the array resolution and instantiation path is ever taken + * [RVM-808] - OutOfMemoryError when allocating a 200 MB tab + * [RVM-811] - Immix: "Chunk map overflow" on jbb2005 ppc64-linux + * [RVM-814] - Wrong exception from Java reflection + * [RVM-828] - Do not search superclasses for a method unless no method is found. + +** Improvement + * [RVM-91] - Modularize threading system (native thread support) + * [RVM-283] - Increase frequency of timer-based method sampling + * [RVM-362] - Sort accumulating operands on to LHS of commutative operations + * [RVM-462] - Immix code still contains huge number of experimental variables + * [RVM-532] - Harmony's OSMemory implementation uses JNI + * [RVM-612] - Assertion checking on stack height in baseline compiler + * [RVM-689] - Update MMTk tutorial + * [RVM-709] - Document meaning of constants in build reference maps + * [RVM-725] - Increase command line options for tuning opt compiler behaviour + * [RVM-736] - Disable ImmutableEntryHashSetRVM.remove() + * [RVM-737] - Support local variable table for methods + * [RVM-739] - Made org.jikesrvm.compilers.opt.util.Pair generic and moved it to package org.jikesrvm.util + * [RVM-740] - Support for floating point conditional moves on Intel with SSE + * [RVM-741] - Support for negation and abs() using SSE2 bit masks + * [RVM-775] - Cleanup up code that obtains targets of pseudo_invokestatic instruction + * [RVM-791] - Clean up and modularize locking + * [RVM-801] - Minor change: Reorganize ClassFileReader by moving code for reading in the constant pool into a separate function + * [RVM-803] - Use for-each loop in RVMClass wherever possible + +** Tasks and Sub-tasks + * [RVM-817] - Change Jikes RVM license from Common Public License to Eclipse Public License + * [RVM-685] - Implement x86 64 JNI Compiler + * [RVM-751] - Implement PowerPC syscalls + * [RVM-759] - Stack maps seem to be broken + * [RVM-779] - Update userguide to decribe native threads + * [RVM-783] - Fix baseline Intel 64bit reference maps + * [RVM-786] - Adjust sampling mechanism in AOS to account for native threads + * [RVM-787] - Outline exception raising code in gnu.java.lang.CPStringBuilder to enable better inlining + * [RVM-29] - Track website traffic via sourceforge logo requests + * Jikes RVM 3.0.1 (October 16, 2008) ** New Feature This was sent by the SourceForge.net collaborative development platform, the world's largest Open Source development site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Jikesrvm-commits mailing list Jikesrvm-commits@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jikesrvm-commits |
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