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kasperl@chromium.org2abc4502009-07-02 07:00:29 +000012009-07-02: Version 1.2.11
2
3 Improved performance on IA-32 and ARM.
4
5 Fixed profiler sampler implementation on Mac OS X.
6
7 Changed the representation of global objects to improve
8 performance of adding a lot of new properties.
9
10
ager@chromium.org3e875802009-06-29 08:26:34 +0000112009-06-29: Version 1.2.10
12
13 Improved debugger support.
14
15 Fixed bug in exception message reporting (issue 390).
16
17 Improved overall performance.
18
19
ager@chromium.org5aa501c2009-06-23 07:57:28 +0000202009-06-23: Version 1.2.9
21
22 Improved math performance on ARM.
23
24 Fixed profiler name-inference bug.
25
26 Fixed handling of shared libraries in the profiler tick processor
27 scripts.
28
29 Fixed handling of tests that time out in the test scripts.
30
31 Fixed compilation on MacOS X version 10.4.
32
33 Fixed two bugs in the regular expression engine.
34
35 Fixed a bug in the string type inference.
36
37 Fixed a bug in the handling of 'constant function' properties.
38
39 Improved overall performance.
40
41
ager@chromium.orgeadaf222009-06-16 09:43:10 +0000422009-06-16: Version 1.2.8
43
44 Optimized math on ARM platforms.
45
46 Fixed two crash bugs in the handling of getters and setters.
47
48 Improved the debugger support by adding scope chain information.
49
50 Improved the profiler support by compressing log data transmitted
51 to clients.
52
53 Improved overall performance.
54
55
ager@chromium.orge2902be2009-06-08 12:21:35 +0000562009-06-08: Version 1.2.7
57
58 Improved debugger and profiler support.
59
60 Reduced compilation time by improving the handling of deferred
61 code.
62
63 Optimized interceptor accesses where the property is on the object
64 on which the interceptors is attached.
65
66 Fixed compilation problem on GCC 4.4 by changing the stack
67 alignment to 16 bytes.
68
69 Fixed handle creation to follow stric aliasing rules.
70
71 Fixed compilation on FreeBSD.
72
73 Introduced API for forcing the deletion of a property ignoring
74 interceptors and attributes.
75
76
sgjesse@chromium.org755c5b12009-05-29 11:04:38 +0000772009-05-29: Version 1.2.6
78
79 Added a histogram recording hit rates at different levels of the
80 compilation cache.
81
82 Added stack overflow check for the RegExp analysis phase. Previously a
83 very long regexp graph could overflow the stack with recursive calls.
84
85 Use a dynamic buffer when collecting log events in memory.
86
87 Added start/stop events to the profiler log.
88
89 Fixed infinite loop which could happen when setting a debug break while
90 executing a RegExp compiled to native code.
91
92 Fixed handling of lastIndexOf called with negative index (issue 351).
93
94 Fixed irregular crash in profiler test (issue 358).
95
96 Fixed compilation issues with some versions of gcc.
97
98
kasperl@chromium.org71affb52009-05-26 05:44:31 +0000992009-05-26: Version 1.2.5
100
101 Fixed bug in initial boundary check for Boyer-Moore text
102 search (issue 349).
103
104 Fixed compilation issues with MinGW and gcc 4.3+ and added support
105 for armv7 and cortex-a8 architectures. Patches by Lei Zhang and
106 Craig Schlenter.
107
108 Added a script cache to the debugger.
109
110 Optimized compilation performance by improving internal data
111 structures and avoiding expensive property load optimizations for
112 code that's infrequently executed.
113
114 Exposed the calling JavaScript context through the static API
115 function Context::GetCalling().
116
117
kasperl@chromium.orgb3284ad2009-05-18 06:12:45 +00001182009-05-18: Version 1.2.4
119
120 Improved performance of floating point number allocation for ARM
121 platforms.
122
123 Fixed crash when using the instanceof operator on functions with
124 number values in their prototype chain (issue 341).
125
126 Optimized virtual frame operations in the code generator to speed
127 up compilation time and allocated the frames in the zone.
128
129 Made the representation of virtual frames and jump targets in the
130 code generator much more compact.
131
132 Avoided linear search for non-locals in scope code when resolving
133 variables inside with and eval scopes.
134
135 Optimized lexical scanner by dealing with whitespace as part of
136 the token scanning instead of as a separate step before it.
137
138 Changed the scavenging collector so that promoted objects do not
139 reside in the old generation while their remembered set is being
140 swept for pointers into the young generation.
141
142 Fixed numeric overflow handling when compiling count operations.
143
144
ager@chromium.org9085a012009-05-11 19:22:57 +00001452009-05-11: Version 1.2.3
146
147 Fixed bug in reporting of out-of-memory situations.
148
149 Introduced hidden prototypes on certain builtin prototype objects
150 such as String.prototype to emulate JSC's behavior of restoring
151 the original function when deleting functions from those prototype
152 objects.
153
154 Fixed crash bug in the register allocator.
155
156
ager@chromium.org5ec48922009-05-05 07:25:34 +00001572009-05-04: Version 1.2.2
158
159 Fixed bug in array sorting for sparse arrays (issue 326).
160
161 Added support for adding a soname when building a shared library
162 on Linux (issue 151).
163
164 Fixed bug caused by morphing internal ASCII strings to external
165 two-byte strings. Slices over ASCII strings have to forward ASCII
166 checks to the underlying buffer string.
167
168 Allowed API call-as-function handlers to be called as
169 constructors.
170
171 Fixed a crash bug where an external string was disposed but a
172 slice of the external string survived as a symbol.
173
174
ager@chromium.org3a37e9b2009-04-27 09:26:21 +00001752009-04-27: Version 1.2.1
176
177 Added EcmaScript 5 JSON object.
178
179 Fix bug in preemption support on ARM.
180
181
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +00001822009-04-23: Version 1.2.0
183
184 Optimized floating-point operations on ARM.
185
186 Added a number of extensions to the debugger API.
187
188 Changed the enumeration order for unsigned integer keys to always
189 be numerical order.
190
191 Added a "read" extension to the shell sample.
192
193 Added support for Array.prototype.reduce and
194 Array.prototype.reduceRight.
195
196 Added an option to the SCons build to control Microsoft Visual C++
197 link-time code generation.
198
199 Fixed a number of bugs (in particular issue 315, issue 316,
200 issue 317 and issue 318).
201
202
kasperl@chromium.org2d18d102009-04-15 13:27:32 +00002032009-04-15: Version 1.1.10
204
205 Fixed crash bug that occurred when loading a const variable in the
206 presence of eval.
207
208 Allowed using with and eval in registered extensions in debug mode
209 by fixing bogus assert.
210
211 Fixed the source position for function returns to enable the
212 debugger to break there.
213
214
kasperl@chromium.orgd1e3e722009-04-14 13:38:25 +00002152009-04-14: Version 1.1.9
216
217 Made the stack traversal code in the profiler robust by avoiding
218 to look into the heap.
219
220 Added name inferencing for anonymous functions to facilitate
221 debugging and profiling.
222
223 Re-enabled stats timers in the developer shell (d8).
224
225 Fixed issue 303 by avoiding to shortcut cons-symbols.
226
227
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +00002282009-04-11: Version 1.1.8
229
230 Changed test-debug/ThreadedDebugging to be non-flaky (issue 96).
231
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +0000232 Fixed step-in handling for Function.prototype.apply and call in
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +0000233 the debugger (issue 269).
234
235 Fixed v8::Object::DeleteHiddenValue to not bail out when there
236 are no hidden properties.
237
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +0000238 Added workaround for crash bug, where external symbol table
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +0000239 entries with deleted resources would lead to NPEs when looking
240 up in the symbol table.
241
242
kasperl@chromium.org8ccb0be2009-04-07 07:21:39 +00002432009-04-07: Version 1.1.7
244
245 Added support for easily importing additional environment
246 variables into the SCons build.
247
248 Optimized strict equality checks.
249
250 Fixed crash in indexed setters on objects without a corresponding
251 getter (issue 298).
252
253 Re-enabled script compilation cache.
254
255
ager@chromium.org8682a592009-04-01 10:47:14 +00002562009-04-01: Version 1.1.6
257
258 Reverted an unsafe code generator change.
259
260
ager@chromium.org71daaf62009-04-01 07:22:49 +00002612009-04-01: Version 1.1.5
262
263 Fixed bug that caused function literals to not be optimized as
264 much as other functions.
265
266 Improved profiler support.
267
268 Fixed a crash bug in connection with debugger unloading.
269
270 Fixed a crash bug in the code generator caused by losing the
271 information that a frame element was copied.
272
273 Fixed an exception propagation bug that could cause non-null
274 return values when exceptions were thrown.
275
276
ager@chromium.org41826e72009-03-30 13:30:57 +00002772009-03-30: Version 1.1.4
278
279 Optimized String.prototype.match.
280
281 Improved the stack information in profiles.
282
283 Fixed bug in ARM port making it possible to compile the runtime
284 system for thumb mode again.
285
286 Implemented a number of optimizations in the code generator.
287
288 Fixed a number of memory leaks in tests.
289
290 Fixed crash bug in connection with script source code and external
kasperl@chromium.org8ccb0be2009-04-07 07:21:39 +0000291 strings.
ager@chromium.org41826e72009-03-30 13:30:57 +0000292
293
kasperl@chromium.orgf5aa8372009-03-24 14:47:14 +00002942009-03-24: Version 1.1.3
295
296 Fixed assertion failures in compilation of loop conditions.
297
298 Removed STL dependency from developer shell (d8).
299
300 Added infrastructure for protecting the V8 heap from corruption
301 caused by memory modifications from the outside.
302
303
ager@chromium.orgbb29dc92009-03-24 13:25:23 +00003042009-03-24: Version 1.1.2
305
306 Improved frame merge code generated by the code generator.
307
308 Optimized String.prototype.replace.
309
310 Implemented __defineGetter__ and __defineSetter__ for properties
311 with integer keys on non-array objects.
312
313 Improved debugger and profiler support.
314
315 Fixed a number of portability issues to allow compilation for
316 smaller ARM devices.
317
318 Exposed object cloning through the API.
319
320 Implemented hidden properties. This is used to expose an identity
321 hash for objects through the API.
322
323 Implemented restarting of regular expressions if their input
324 string changes representation during preemption.
325
326 Fixed a code generator bug that could cause assignments in loops
327 to be ignored if using continue to break out of the loop (issue
328 284).
329
330
ager@chromium.org3a6061e2009-03-12 14:24:36 +00003312009-03-12: Version 1.1.1
332
333 Fixed an assertion in the new compiler to take stack overflow
334 exceptions into account.
335
336 Removed exception propagation code that could cause crashes.
337
338 Fixed minor bug in debugger line number computations.
339
340 8-byte align the C stack on Linux and Windows to speed up floating
341 point computations.
342
343
kasperl@chromium.org7be3c992009-03-12 07:19:55 +00003442009-03-12: Version 1.1.0
345
346 Improved code generation infrastructure by doing simple register
347 allocation and constant folding and propagation.
348
349 Optimized regular expression matching by avoiding to create
350 intermediate string arrays and by flattening nested array
351 representations of RegExp data.
352
353 Traverse a few stack frames when recording profiler samples to
354 include partial call graphs in the profiling output.
355
356 Added support for using OProfile to profile generated code.
357
358 Added remote debugging support to the D8 developer shell.
359
360 Optimized creation of nested literals like JSON objects.
361
362 Fixed a bug in garbage collecting unused maps and turned it on by
363 default (--collect-maps).
364
365 Added support for running tests under Valgrind.
366
367
kasperl@chromium.org061ef742009-02-27 12:16:20 +00003682009-02-27: Version 1.0.3
369
370 Optimized double-to-integer conversions in bit operations by using
371 SSE3 instructions if available.
372
373 Optimized initialization sequences that store to multiple
374 properties of the same object.
375
376 Changed the D8 debugger frontend to use JSON messages.
377
378 Force garbage collections when disposing contexts.
379
380 Align code objects at 32-byte boundaries.
381
382
ager@chromium.org381abbb2009-02-25 13:23:22 +00003832009-02-25: Version 1.0.2
384
385 Improved profiling support by performing simple call stack
386 sampling for ticks and by fixing a bug in the logging of code
387 addresses.
388
389 Fixed a number of debugger issues.
390
391 Optimized code that uses eval.
392
393 Fixed a couple of bugs in the regular expression engine.
394
395 Reduced the size of generated code for certain regular expressions.
396
397 Removed JSCRE completely.
398
399 Fixed issue where test could not be run if there was a dot in the
400 checkout path.
401
402
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +00004032009-02-13: Version 1.0.1
404
405 Fixed two crash-bugs in irregexp (issue 231 and 233).
406
407 Fixed a number of minor bugs (issue 87, 227 and 228).
408
409 Added support for morphing strings to external strings on demand
410 to avoid having to create copies in the embedding code.
411
412 Removed experimental support for external symbol callbacks.
413
414
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +00004152009-02-09: Version 1.0.0
416
417 Fixed crash-bug in the code generation for case independent 16 bit
418 backreferences.
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000419
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000420 Made shells more robust in the presence of string conversion
421 failures (issue 224).
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000422
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000423 Fixed a potential infinite loop when attempting to resolve
424 eval (issue 221).
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000425
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000426 Miscellaneous fixes to the new regular expression engine.
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000427
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000428 Reduced binary by stripping unneeded text from JavaScript library and
429 minifying some JavaScript files.
430
431
ager@chromium.orgddb913d2009-01-27 10:01:48 +00004322009-01-27: Version 0.4.9
433
434 Enabled new regular expression engine.
435
436 Made a number of changes to the debugger protocol.
437
438 Fixed a number of bugs in the preemption support.
439
440 Added -p option to the developer shell to run files in parallel
441 using preemption.
442
443 Fixed a number of minor bugs (including issues 176, 187, 189, 192,
444 193, 198 and 201).
445
446 Fixed a number of bugs in the serialization/deserialization
447 support for the ARM platform.
448
449
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +00004502009-01-19: Version 0.4.8.1
451
452 Minor patch to debugger support.
453
454
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +00004552009-01-16: Version 0.4.8
456
457 Fixed string length bug on ARM (issue 171).
458
459 Made most methods in the API const.
460
461 Optimized object literals by improving data locality.
462
463 Fixed bug that caused incomplete functions to be cached in case of
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +0000464 stack overflow exceptions.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000465
466 Fixed bugs that caused catch variables and variables introduced by
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +0000467 eval to behave incorrectly when using accessors (issues 186, 190
468 and 191).
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000469
470
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +00004712009-01-06: Version 0.4.7
472
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000473 Minor bugfixes and optimizations.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000474
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000475 Added command line debugger to D8 shell.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000476
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000477 Fixed subtle bug that caused the wrong 'this' to be used when
478 calling a caught function in a catch clause.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000479
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000480 Inline array loads within loops directly in the code instead of
481 always calling a stub.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000482
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000483
ager@chromium.org8bb60582008-12-11 12:02:20 +00004842008-12-11: Version 0.4.6
485
486 Fixed exception reporting bug where certain exceptions were
487 incorrectly reported as uncaught.
488
489 Improved the memory allocation strategy used during compilation to
490 make running out of memory when compiling huge scripts less
491 likely.
492
493 Optimized String.replace by avoiding the construction of certain
494 sub strings.
495
496 Fixed bug in code generation for large switch statements on ARM.
497
498 Fixed bug that caused V8 to change the global object template
499 passed in by the user.
500
501 Changed the API for creating object groups used during garbage
502 collection. Entire object groups are now passed to V8 instead of
503 individual members of the groups.
504
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000505
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +00005062008-12-03: Version 0.4.5
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000507
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +0000508 Added experimental API support for allocating V8 symbols as
509 external strings.
510
511 Fixed bugs in debugging support on ARM.
512
513 Changed eval implementation to correctly detect whether or not a
514 call to eval is aliased.
515
516 Fixed bug caused by a combination of the compilation cache and
517 dictionary probing in native code. The bug caused us to sometimes
518 call functions that had not yet been compiled.
519
520 Added platform support for FreeBSD.
521
522 Added support for building V8 on Windows with either the shared or
523 static version of MSVCRT
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000524
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000525 Added the v8::jscre namespace around the jscre functions to avoid
526 link errors (duplicate symbols) when building Google Chrome.
527
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +0000528 Added support for calling a JavaScript function with the current
529 debugger execution context as its argument to the debugger
530 interface.
531
532 Changed the type of names of counters from wchar_t to char.
533
534 Changed the Windows system call used to compute daylight savings
535 time. The system call that we used to use became four times
536 slower on WinXP SP3.
537
538 Added support in the d8 developer shell for memory-mapped counters
539 and added a stats-viewer tool.
540
541 Fixed bug in upper/lower case mappings (issue 149).
542
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000543
ager@chromium.org3bf7b912008-11-17 09:09:45 +00005442008-11-17: Version 0.4.4
545
546 Reduced code size by using shorter instruction encoding when
547 possible.
548
549 Added a --help option to the shell sample and to the d8 shell.
550
551 Added visual studio project files for building the ARM simulator.
552
553 Fixed a number of ARM simulator issues.
554
555 Fixed bug in out-of-memory handling on ARM.
556
557 Implemented shell support for passing arguments to a script from
558 the command line.
559
560 Fixed bug in date code that made certain date functions return -0
561 instead of 0 for dates before the epoch.
562
563 Restricted applications of eval so it can only be used in the
564 context of the associated global object.
565
566 Treat byte-order marks as whitespace characters.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000567
568
ager@chromium.org870a0b62008-11-04 11:43:05 +00005692008-11-04: Version 0.4.3
570
571 Added support for API accessors that prohibit overwriting by
572 accessors defined in JavaScript code by using __defineGetter__ and
573 __defineSetter__.
574
575 Improved handling of conditionals in test status files.
576
577 Introduced access control in propertyIsEnumerable.
578
579 Improved performance of some string operations by caching
580 information about the type of the string between operations.
581
582 Fixed bug in fast-case code for switch statements that only have
583 integer labels.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000584
ager@chromium.org870a0b62008-11-04 11:43:05 +0000585
kasperl@chromium.org9bbf9682008-10-30 11:53:07 +00005862008-10-30: Version 0.4.2
587
588 Improved performance of Array.prototype.concat by moving the
589 implementation to C++ (issue 123).
590
591 Fixed heap growth policy to avoid growing old space to its maximum
592 capacity before doing a garbage collection and fixed issue that
593 would lead to artificial out of memory situations (issue 129).
594
595 Fixed Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString to return the date in the
596 same format as WebKit.
597
598 Added missing initialization checks to debugger API.
599
600 Added removing of unused maps during GC.
601
602
kasperl@chromium.org9fe21c62008-10-28 08:53:51 +00006032008-10-28: Version 0.4.1
604
605 Added caching of RegExp data in compilation cache.
606
607 Added Visual Studio project file for d8 shell.
608
609 Fixed function call performance regression introduced in version
610 0.4.0 when splitting the global object in two parts (issue 120).
611
612 Fixed issue 131 by checking for empty handles before throwing and
613 reporting exceptions.
614
615
kasperl@chromium.org5a8ca6c2008-10-23 13:57:19 +00006162008-10-23: Version 0.4.0
617
618 Split the global object into two parts: The state holding global
619 object and the global object proxy.
620
621 Fixed bug that affected the value of an assignment to an element
622 in certain cases (issue 116).
623
624 Added GetPropertyNames functionality (issue 33) and extra Date
625 functions (issue 77) to the API.
626
627 Changed WeakReferenceCallback to take a Persistent<Value> instead
628 of a Persistent<Object> (issue 101).
629
630 Fixed issues with message reporting for exceptions in try-finally
631 blocks (issues 73 and 75).
632
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000633 Optimized flattening of strings and string equality checking.
kasperl@chromium.org5a8ca6c2008-10-23 13:57:19 +0000634
635 Improved Boyer-Moore implementation for faster indexOf operations.
636
637 Added development shell (d8) which includes counters and
638 completion support.
639
640 Fixed problem with the receiver passed to functions called from
641 eval (issue 124).
642
643
ager@chromium.org7c537e22008-10-16 08:43:32 +00006442008-10-16: Version 0.3.5
645
646 Improved string hash-code distribution by excluding bit-field bits
647 from the hash-code.
648
649 Changed string search algorithm used in indexOf from KMP to
650 Boyer-Moore.
651
652 Improved the generated code for the instanceof operator.
653
654 Improved performance of slow-case string equality checks by
655 specializing the code based on the string representation.
656
657 Improve the handling of out-of-memory situations (issue 70).
658
659 Improved performance of strict equality checks.
660
661 Improved profiler output to make it easier to see anonymous
662 functions.
663
664 Improved performance of slow-case keyed loads.
665
666 Improved property access performance by allocating a number of
667 properties in the front object.
668
669 Changed the toString behavior on the built-in object constructors
670 to print [native code] instead of the actual source. Some web
671 applications do not like constructors with complex toString
672 results.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000673
ager@chromium.org7c537e22008-10-16 08:43:32 +0000674
kasperl@chromium.org41044eb2008-10-06 08:24:46 +00006752008-10-06: Version 0.3.4
676
677 Changed Array.prototype.sort to use quick sort.
678
679 Fixed code generation issue where leaving a finally block with
680 break or continue would accumulate elements on the expression
681 stack (issue 86).
682
683 Made sure that the name accessor on functions returns the expected
684 names for builtin JavaScript functions and C++ callback functions.
685
686 Added fast case code for extending the property storage array of
687 JavaScript objects.
688
689 Ported switch statement optimizations introduced in version 0.3.3
690 to the ARM code generator.
691
692 Allowed GCC to use strict-aliasing rules when compiling.
693
694 Improved performance of arguments object allocation by taking care
695 of arguments adaptor frames in the generated code.
696
697 Updated the V8 benchmark suite to version 2.
698
699
ager@chromium.org236ad962008-09-25 09:45:57 +00007002008-09-25: Version 0.3.3
701
702 Improved handling of relocation information to enable more
703 peep-hole optimizations.
704
705 Optimized switch statements where all labels are constant small
706 integers.
707
708 Optimized String.prototype.indexOf for common cases.
709
710 Fixed more build issues (issue 80).
711
712 Fixed a couple of profiler issues.
713
714 Fixed bug where the body of a function created using the Function
715 constructor was not allowed to end with a single-line comment
716 (issue 85).
717
718 Improved handling of object literals by canonicalizing object
719 literal maps. This will allow JSON objects with the same set of
720 properties to share the same map making inline caching work better
721 for JSON objects.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000722
ager@chromium.org236ad962008-09-25 09:45:57 +0000723
kasperl@chromium.orgb9123622008-09-17 14:05:56 +00007242008-09-17: Version 0.3.2
725
726 Generalized the EvalCache into a CompilationCache and enabled it
727 for scripts too. The current strategy is to retire all entries
728 whenever a mark-sweep collection is started.
729
730 Fixed bug where switch statements containing only a default case
731 would lead to an unbalanced stack (issue 69).
732
733 Fixed bug that made access to the function in a named function
734 expression impossible in certain situations (issue 24).
735
736 Fixed even more build issues.
737
738 Optimized calling conventions on ARM. The conventions on ARM and
739 IA-32 now match.
740
741 Removed static initializers for flags and counters.
742
743 Improved inline caching behavior for uncommon cases where lazily
744 loading Date and RegExp code could force certain code paths go
745 megamorphic.
746
747 Removed arguments adaption for builtins written in C++. This
748 makes Array.prototype.push and Array.prototype.pop slightly
749 faster.
750
751
ager@chromium.org9258b6b2008-09-11 09:11:10 +00007522008-09-11: Version 0.3.1
753
754 Fixed a number of build issues.
755
756 Fixed problem with missing I-cache flusing on ARM.
757
758 Changed space layout in memory management by splitting up
759 code space into old data space and code space.
760
761 Added utf-8 conversion support to the API (issue 57).
762
763 Optimized repeated calls to eval with the same strings. These
764 repeated calls are common in web applications.
765
766 Added Xcode project file.
767
768 Optimized a couple of Array operation.
769
770 Fixed parser bug by checking for end-of-string when parsing break
771 and continue (issue 35).
772
773 Fixed problem where asian characters were not categorized as
774 letters.
775
776 Fixed bug that disallowed calling functions fetched from an array
777 using a string as an array index (issue 32).
778
779 Fixed bug where the internal field count on object templates were
780 sometimes ignored (issue 54).
781
782 Added -f option to the shell sample for compatibility with other
783 engines (issue 18).
784
785 Added source info to TryCatches in the API.
786
787 Fixed problem where the seed for the random number generator was
788 clipped in a double to unsigned int conversion.
789
790 Fixed bug where cons string symbols were sometimes converted to
791 non-symbol flat strings during GC.
792
793 Fixed bug in error reporting when attempting to convert null to an
794 object.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000795
796
ager@chromium.orgc27e4e72008-09-04 13:52:27 +00007972008-09-04: Version 0.3.0
798
799 Added support for running tests on the ARM simulator.
800
801 Fixed bug in the 'in' operator where negative indices were not
802 treated correctly.
803
804 Fixed build issues on gcc-4.3.1.
805
806 Changed Date.prototype.toLocaleTimeString to not print the
807 timezone part of the time.
808
809 Renamed debug.h to v8-debug.h to reduce the risk of name conflicts
810 with user code.
811
812
v8.team.kasperl727e9952008-09-02 14:56:44 +00008132008-09-02: Version 0.2.5
814
815 Renamed the top level directory 'public' to 'include'.
816
817 Added 'env' option to the SCons build scripts to support
818 overriding the ENV part of the build environment. This is mostly
819 to support Windows builds in cases where SCons cannot find the
820 correct paths to the Windows SDK, as these paths cannot be passed
821 through shell environment variables.
822
823 Enabled "Buffer Security Check" on for the Windows SCons build and
824 added the linker option /OPT:ICF as an optimization.
825
826 Added the V8 benchmark suite to the repository.
827
828
mads.s.ager@gmail.com9a4089a2008-09-01 08:55:01 +00008292008-09-01: Version 0.2.4
830
831 Included mjsunit JavaScript test suite and C++ unit tests.
832
833 Changed the shell sample to not print the result of executing a
834 script provided on the command line.
835
836 Fixed issue when building samples on Windows using a shared V8
837 library. Added visibility option on Linux build which makes the
838 generated library 18% smaller.
839
840 Changed build system to accept multiple build modes in one build
841 and generate separate objects, libraries and executables for each
842 mode.
843
844 Removed deferred negation optimization (a * -b => -(a * b)) since
845 this visibly changes operand conversion order.
846
847 Improved parsing performance by introducing stack guard in
848 preparsing. Without a stack guard preparsing always bails out
849 with stack overflow.
850
851 Changed shell sample to take flags directly from the command-line.
852 Added API call that implements this.
853
854 Added load, quit and version functions to the shell sample so it's
855 easier to run benchmarks and tests.
856
857 Fixed issue with building samples and cctests on 64-bit machines.
858
859 Fixed bug in the runtime system where the prototype chain was not
860 always searched for a setter when setting a property that does not
861 exist locally.
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mads.s.ager@gmail.com9a4089a2008-09-01 08:55:01 +0000863
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00008642008-08-14: Version 0.2.3
865
866 Improved performance of garbage collection by moving the
867 function that updates pointers during compacting collection
868 into the updating visitor. This gives the compiler a better
869 chance to inline and avoid a function call per (potential)
870 pointer.
871
872 Extended the shell sample with a --runtime-flags option.
873
874 Added Visual Studio project files for the shell.cc and
875 process.cc samples.
876
877
8782008-08-13: Version 0.2.2
mads.s.ager31e71382008-08-13 09:32:07 +0000879
880 Improved performance of garbage collection by changing the way
881 we use the marking stack in the event of stack overflow during
882 full garbage collection and by changing the way we mark roots.
883
884 Cleaned up ARM version by removing top of stack caching and by
885 introducing push/pop elimination.
886
887 Cleaned up the way runtime functions are called to allow
888 runtime calls with no arguments.
889
890 Changed Windows build options to make sure that exceptions are
891 disabled and that optimization flags are enabled.
892
893 Added first version of Visual Studio project files.
894
895
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00008962008-08-06: Version 0.2.1
mads.s.ager@gmail.com769cc962008-08-06 10:02:49 +0000897
898 Improved performance of unary addition by avoiding runtime calls.
899
900 Fixed the handling of '>' and '<=' to use right-to-left conversion
901 and left-to-right evaluation as specified by ECMA-262.
902
903 Fixed a branch elimination bug on the ARM platform where incorrect
904 code was generated because of overly aggressive branch
905 elimination.
906
907 Improved performance of code that repeatedly assigns the same
908 function to the same property of different objects with the same
909 map.
910
911 Untangled DEBUG and ENABLE_DISASSEMBLER defines. The disassembler
912 no longer expects DEBUG to be defined.
913
914 Added platform-nullos.cc to serve as the basis for new platform
915 implementations.
916
mads.s.ager31e71382008-08-13 09:32:07 +0000917
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009182008-07-30: Version 0.2.0
kasper.lund7276f142008-07-30 08:49:36 +0000919
920 Changed all text files to have native svn:eol-style.
921
922 Added a few samples and support for building them. The samples
923 include a simple shell that can be used to benchmark and test V8.
924
925 Changed V8::GetVersion to return the version as a string.
926
927 Added source for lazily loaded scripts to snapshots and made
928 serialization non-destructive.
929
930 Improved ARM support by fixing the write barrier code to use
931 aligned loads and stores and by removing premature locals
932 optimization that relied on broken support for callee-saved
933 registers (removed).
934
935 Refactored the code for marking live objects during garbage
936 collection and the code for allocating objects in paged
937 spaces. Introduced an abstraction for the map word of a heap-
938 allocated object and changed the memory allocator to allocate
939 executable memory only for spaces that may contain code objects.
940
941 Moved StringBuilder to utils.h and ScopedLock to platform.h, where
942 they can be used by debugging and logging modules. Added
943 thread-safe message queues for dealing with debugger events.
944
945 Fixed the source code reported by toString for certain builtin
946 empty functions and made sure that the prototype property of a
947 function is enumerable.
948
949 Improved performance of converting values to condition flags in
950 generated code.
951
952 Merged disassembler-{arch} files.
953
954
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009552008-07-28: Version 0.1.4
kasper.lundaf4734f2008-07-28 12:50:18 +0000956
957 Added support for storing JavaScript stack traces in a stack
958 allocated buffer to make it visible in shallow core dumps.
959 Controlled by the --preallocate-message-memory flag which is
960 disabled by default.
961
962
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009632008-07-25: Version 0.1.3
kasper.lund44510672008-07-25 07:37:58 +0000964
965 Fixed bug in JSObject::GetPropertyAttributePostInterceptor where
966 map transitions would count as properties.
967
968 Allowed aliased eval invocations by treating them as evals in the
969 global context. This may change in the future.
970
971 Added support for accessing the last entered context through the
972 API and renamed Context::Current to Context::GetCurrent and
973 Context::GetSecurityContext to Context::GetCurrentSecurityContext.
974
975 Fixed bug in the debugger that would cause the debugger scripts to
976 be recursively loaded and changed all disabling of interrupts to
977 be block-structured.
978
979 Made snapshot data read-only to allow it to be more easily shared
980 across multiple users of V8 when linked as a shared library.
981
982
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009832008-07-16: Version 0.1.2
kasper.lund212ac232008-07-16 07:07:30 +0000984
985 Fixed building on Mac OS X by recognizing i386 and friends as
986 IA-32 platforms.
987
988 Added propagation of stack overflow exceptions that occur while
989 compiling nested functions.
990
991 Improved debugger with support for recursive break points and
992 handling of exceptions that occur in the debugger JavaScript code.
993
994 Renamed GetInternal to GetInternalField and SetInternal to
995 SetInternalField in the API and moved InternalFieldCount and
996 SetInternalFieldCount from FunctionTemplate to ObjectTemplate.
997
998
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009992008-07-09: Version 0.1.1
kasper.lundbd3ec4e2008-07-09 11:06:54 +00001000
1001 Fixed bug in stack overflow check code for IA-32 targets where a
1002 non-tagged value in register eax was pushed to the stack.
1003
1004 Fixed potential quadratic behavior when converting strings to
1005 numbers.
1006
1007 Fixed bug where the return value from Object::SetProperty could
1008 end up being the property holder instead of the written value.
1009
1010 Improved debugger support by allowing nested break points and by
1011 dealing with stack-overflows when compiling functions before
1012 setting break points in them.
1013
1014
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +000010152008-07-03: Version 0.1.0
christian.plesner.hansen43d26ec2008-07-03 15:10:15 +00001016
kasper.lundbd3ec4e2008-07-09 11:06:54 +00001017 Initial export.
christian.plesner.hansen43d26ec2008-07-03 15:10:15 +00001018