From: Nicolas Geoffray Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:25:38 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add more notes for VMKit. X-Git-Url: http://plrg.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=09c9ed44092e099b6238f213b3c3deab4d648779;p=oota-llvm.git Add more notes for VMKit. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@65833 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 5638e757acf..0d5f434fb19 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ The VMKit project is an implementation of a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.

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Following LLVM 2.5, VMKit has its first release that you can find on its +

Following LLVM 2.5, VMKit has its second release that you can find on its webpage. The release includes bug fixes, cleanup and new features. The major changes are:

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  • New support for OSX/X64, Linux/X64 (with the Boehm GC), Linux/ppc32.
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  • User-level management of thread stacks, so that thread local data access +at runtime is fast and portable.
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  • Implementation of biased locking for faster object synchronizations at +runtime.
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  • New support for OSX/X64, Linux/X64 (with the Boehm GC) and Linux/ppc32.