a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an
implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p>
a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an
implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p>
-<p>Following LLVM 2.5, VMKit has its first release that you can find on its
+<p>Following LLVM 2.5, VMKit has its second release that you can find on its
<a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/releases/">webpage</a>. The release includes
bug fixes, cleanup and new features. The major changes are:</p>
<a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/releases/">webpage</a>. The release includes
bug fixes, cleanup and new features. The major changes are:</p>
gain for exception-intensive applications. For example the jack benchmark in
Spec JVM98 is 6x faster (performance gain of 83%).</li>
gain for exception-intensive applications. For example the jack benchmark in
Spec JVM98 is 6x faster (performance gain of 83%).</li>
-<li>New support for OSX/X64, Linux/X64 (with the Boehm GC), Linux/ppc32.</li>
+<li>User-level management of thread stacks, so that thread local data access
+at runtime is fast and portable. </li>
+
+<li>Implementation of biased locking for faster object synchronizations at
+runtime.</li>
+
+<li>New support for OSX/X64, Linux/X64 (with the Boehm GC) and Linux/ppc32.</li>