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ager@chromium.org3e875802009-06-29 08:26:34 +000012009-06-29: Version 1.2.10
2
3 Improved debugger support.
4
5 Fixed bug in exception message reporting (issue 390).
6
7 Improved overall performance.
8
9
ager@chromium.org5aa501c2009-06-23 07:57:28 +0000102009-06-23: Version 1.2.9
11
12 Improved math performance on ARM.
13
14 Fixed profiler name-inference bug.
15
16 Fixed handling of shared libraries in the profiler tick processor
17 scripts.
18
19 Fixed handling of tests that time out in the test scripts.
20
21 Fixed compilation on MacOS X version 10.4.
22
23 Fixed two bugs in the regular expression engine.
24
25 Fixed a bug in the string type inference.
26
27 Fixed a bug in the handling of 'constant function' properties.
28
29 Improved overall performance.
30
31
ager@chromium.orgeadaf222009-06-16 09:43:10 +0000322009-06-16: Version 1.2.8
33
34 Optimized math on ARM platforms.
35
36 Fixed two crash bugs in the handling of getters and setters.
37
38 Improved the debugger support by adding scope chain information.
39
40 Improved the profiler support by compressing log data transmitted
41 to clients.
42
43 Improved overall performance.
44
45
ager@chromium.orge2902be2009-06-08 12:21:35 +0000462009-06-08: Version 1.2.7
47
48 Improved debugger and profiler support.
49
50 Reduced compilation time by improving the handling of deferred
51 code.
52
53 Optimized interceptor accesses where the property is on the object
54 on which the interceptors is attached.
55
56 Fixed compilation problem on GCC 4.4 by changing the stack
57 alignment to 16 bytes.
58
59 Fixed handle creation to follow stric aliasing rules.
60
61 Fixed compilation on FreeBSD.
62
63 Introduced API for forcing the deletion of a property ignoring
64 interceptors and attributes.
65
66
sgjesse@chromium.org755c5b12009-05-29 11:04:38 +0000672009-05-29: Version 1.2.6
68
69 Added a histogram recording hit rates at different levels of the
70 compilation cache.
71
72 Added stack overflow check for the RegExp analysis phase. Previously a
73 very long regexp graph could overflow the stack with recursive calls.
74
75 Use a dynamic buffer when collecting log events in memory.
76
77 Added start/stop events to the profiler log.
78
79 Fixed infinite loop which could happen when setting a debug break while
80 executing a RegExp compiled to native code.
81
82 Fixed handling of lastIndexOf called with negative index (issue 351).
83
84 Fixed irregular crash in profiler test (issue 358).
85
86 Fixed compilation issues with some versions of gcc.
87
88
kasperl@chromium.org71affb52009-05-26 05:44:31 +0000892009-05-26: Version 1.2.5
90
91 Fixed bug in initial boundary check for Boyer-Moore text
92 search (issue 349).
93
94 Fixed compilation issues with MinGW and gcc 4.3+ and added support
95 for armv7 and cortex-a8 architectures. Patches by Lei Zhang and
96 Craig Schlenter.
97
98 Added a script cache to the debugger.
99
100 Optimized compilation performance by improving internal data
101 structures and avoiding expensive property load optimizations for
102 code that's infrequently executed.
103
104 Exposed the calling JavaScript context through the static API
105 function Context::GetCalling().
106
107
kasperl@chromium.orgb3284ad2009-05-18 06:12:45 +00001082009-05-18: Version 1.2.4
109
110 Improved performance of floating point number allocation for ARM
111 platforms.
112
113 Fixed crash when using the instanceof operator on functions with
114 number values in their prototype chain (issue 341).
115
116 Optimized virtual frame operations in the code generator to speed
117 up compilation time and allocated the frames in the zone.
118
119 Made the representation of virtual frames and jump targets in the
120 code generator much more compact.
121
122 Avoided linear search for non-locals in scope code when resolving
123 variables inside with and eval scopes.
124
125 Optimized lexical scanner by dealing with whitespace as part of
126 the token scanning instead of as a separate step before it.
127
128 Changed the scavenging collector so that promoted objects do not
129 reside in the old generation while their remembered set is being
130 swept for pointers into the young generation.
131
132 Fixed numeric overflow handling when compiling count operations.
133
134
ager@chromium.org9085a012009-05-11 19:22:57 +00001352009-05-11: Version 1.2.3
136
137 Fixed bug in reporting of out-of-memory situations.
138
139 Introduced hidden prototypes on certain builtin prototype objects
140 such as String.prototype to emulate JSC's behavior of restoring
141 the original function when deleting functions from those prototype
142 objects.
143
144 Fixed crash bug in the register allocator.
145
146
ager@chromium.org5ec48922009-05-05 07:25:34 +00001472009-05-04: Version 1.2.2
148
149 Fixed bug in array sorting for sparse arrays (issue 326).
150
151 Added support for adding a soname when building a shared library
152 on Linux (issue 151).
153
154 Fixed bug caused by morphing internal ASCII strings to external
155 two-byte strings. Slices over ASCII strings have to forward ASCII
156 checks to the underlying buffer string.
157
158 Allowed API call-as-function handlers to be called as
159 constructors.
160
161 Fixed a crash bug where an external string was disposed but a
162 slice of the external string survived as a symbol.
163
164
ager@chromium.org3a37e9b2009-04-27 09:26:21 +00001652009-04-27: Version 1.2.1
166
167 Added EcmaScript 5 JSON object.
168
169 Fix bug in preemption support on ARM.
170
171
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +00001722009-04-23: Version 1.2.0
173
174 Optimized floating-point operations on ARM.
175
176 Added a number of extensions to the debugger API.
177
178 Changed the enumeration order for unsigned integer keys to always
179 be numerical order.
180
181 Added a "read" extension to the shell sample.
182
183 Added support for Array.prototype.reduce and
184 Array.prototype.reduceRight.
185
186 Added an option to the SCons build to control Microsoft Visual C++
187 link-time code generation.
188
189 Fixed a number of bugs (in particular issue 315, issue 316,
190 issue 317 and issue 318).
191
192
kasperl@chromium.org2d18d102009-04-15 13:27:32 +00001932009-04-15: Version 1.1.10
194
195 Fixed crash bug that occurred when loading a const variable in the
196 presence of eval.
197
198 Allowed using with and eval in registered extensions in debug mode
199 by fixing bogus assert.
200
201 Fixed the source position for function returns to enable the
202 debugger to break there.
203
204
kasperl@chromium.orgd1e3e722009-04-14 13:38:25 +00002052009-04-14: Version 1.1.9
206
207 Made the stack traversal code in the profiler robust by avoiding
208 to look into the heap.
209
210 Added name inferencing for anonymous functions to facilitate
211 debugging and profiling.
212
213 Re-enabled stats timers in the developer shell (d8).
214
215 Fixed issue 303 by avoiding to shortcut cons-symbols.
216
217
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +00002182009-04-11: Version 1.1.8
219
220 Changed test-debug/ThreadedDebugging to be non-flaky (issue 96).
221
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +0000222 Fixed step-in handling for Function.prototype.apply and call in
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +0000223 the debugger (issue 269).
224
225 Fixed v8::Object::DeleteHiddenValue to not bail out when there
226 are no hidden properties.
227
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +0000228 Added workaround for crash bug, where external symbol table
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +0000229 entries with deleted resources would lead to NPEs when looking
230 up in the symbol table.
231
232
kasperl@chromium.org8ccb0be2009-04-07 07:21:39 +00002332009-04-07: Version 1.1.7
234
235 Added support for easily importing additional environment
236 variables into the SCons build.
237
238 Optimized strict equality checks.
239
240 Fixed crash in indexed setters on objects without a corresponding
241 getter (issue 298).
242
243 Re-enabled script compilation cache.
244
245
ager@chromium.org8682a592009-04-01 10:47:14 +00002462009-04-01: Version 1.1.6
247
248 Reverted an unsafe code generator change.
249
250
ager@chromium.org71daaf62009-04-01 07:22:49 +00002512009-04-01: Version 1.1.5
252
253 Fixed bug that caused function literals to not be optimized as
254 much as other functions.
255
256 Improved profiler support.
257
258 Fixed a crash bug in connection with debugger unloading.
259
260 Fixed a crash bug in the code generator caused by losing the
261 information that a frame element was copied.
262
263 Fixed an exception propagation bug that could cause non-null
264 return values when exceptions were thrown.
265
266
ager@chromium.org41826e72009-03-30 13:30:57 +00002672009-03-30: Version 1.1.4
268
269 Optimized String.prototype.match.
270
271 Improved the stack information in profiles.
272
273 Fixed bug in ARM port making it possible to compile the runtime
274 system for thumb mode again.
275
276 Implemented a number of optimizations in the code generator.
277
278 Fixed a number of memory leaks in tests.
279
280 Fixed crash bug in connection with script source code and external
kasperl@chromium.org8ccb0be2009-04-07 07:21:39 +0000281 strings.
ager@chromium.org41826e72009-03-30 13:30:57 +0000282
283
kasperl@chromium.orgf5aa8372009-03-24 14:47:14 +00002842009-03-24: Version 1.1.3
285
286 Fixed assertion failures in compilation of loop conditions.
287
288 Removed STL dependency from developer shell (d8).
289
290 Added infrastructure for protecting the V8 heap from corruption
291 caused by memory modifications from the outside.
292
293
ager@chromium.orgbb29dc92009-03-24 13:25:23 +00002942009-03-24: Version 1.1.2
295
296 Improved frame merge code generated by the code generator.
297
298 Optimized String.prototype.replace.
299
300 Implemented __defineGetter__ and __defineSetter__ for properties
301 with integer keys on non-array objects.
302
303 Improved debugger and profiler support.
304
305 Fixed a number of portability issues to allow compilation for
306 smaller ARM devices.
307
308 Exposed object cloning through the API.
309
310 Implemented hidden properties. This is used to expose an identity
311 hash for objects through the API.
312
313 Implemented restarting of regular expressions if their input
314 string changes representation during preemption.
315
316 Fixed a code generator bug that could cause assignments in loops
317 to be ignored if using continue to break out of the loop (issue
318 284).
319
320
ager@chromium.org3a6061e2009-03-12 14:24:36 +00003212009-03-12: Version 1.1.1
322
323 Fixed an assertion in the new compiler to take stack overflow
324 exceptions into account.
325
326 Removed exception propagation code that could cause crashes.
327
328 Fixed minor bug in debugger line number computations.
329
330 8-byte align the C stack on Linux and Windows to speed up floating
331 point computations.
332
333
kasperl@chromium.org7be3c992009-03-12 07:19:55 +00003342009-03-12: Version 1.1.0
335
336 Improved code generation infrastructure by doing simple register
337 allocation and constant folding and propagation.
338
339 Optimized regular expression matching by avoiding to create
340 intermediate string arrays and by flattening nested array
341 representations of RegExp data.
342
343 Traverse a few stack frames when recording profiler samples to
344 include partial call graphs in the profiling output.
345
346 Added support for using OProfile to profile generated code.
347
348 Added remote debugging support to the D8 developer shell.
349
350 Optimized creation of nested literals like JSON objects.
351
352 Fixed a bug in garbage collecting unused maps and turned it on by
353 default (--collect-maps).
354
355 Added support for running tests under Valgrind.
356
357
kasperl@chromium.org061ef742009-02-27 12:16:20 +00003582009-02-27: Version 1.0.3
359
360 Optimized double-to-integer conversions in bit operations by using
361 SSE3 instructions if available.
362
363 Optimized initialization sequences that store to multiple
364 properties of the same object.
365
366 Changed the D8 debugger frontend to use JSON messages.
367
368 Force garbage collections when disposing contexts.
369
370 Align code objects at 32-byte boundaries.
371
372
ager@chromium.org381abbb2009-02-25 13:23:22 +00003732009-02-25: Version 1.0.2
374
375 Improved profiling support by performing simple call stack
376 sampling for ticks and by fixing a bug in the logging of code
377 addresses.
378
379 Fixed a number of debugger issues.
380
381 Optimized code that uses eval.
382
383 Fixed a couple of bugs in the regular expression engine.
384
385 Reduced the size of generated code for certain regular expressions.
386
387 Removed JSCRE completely.
388
389 Fixed issue where test could not be run if there was a dot in the
390 checkout path.
391
392
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +00003932009-02-13: Version 1.0.1
394
395 Fixed two crash-bugs in irregexp (issue 231 and 233).
396
397 Fixed a number of minor bugs (issue 87, 227 and 228).
398
399 Added support for morphing strings to external strings on demand
400 to avoid having to create copies in the embedding code.
401
402 Removed experimental support for external symbol callbacks.
403
404
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +00004052009-02-09: Version 1.0.0
406
407 Fixed crash-bug in the code generation for case independent 16 bit
408 backreferences.
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000409
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000410 Made shells more robust in the presence of string conversion
411 failures (issue 224).
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000412
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000413 Fixed a potential infinite loop when attempting to resolve
414 eval (issue 221).
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000415
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000416 Miscellaneous fixes to the new regular expression engine.
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000417
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000418 Reduced binary by stripping unneeded text from JavaScript library and
419 minifying some JavaScript files.
420
421
ager@chromium.orgddb913d2009-01-27 10:01:48 +00004222009-01-27: Version 0.4.9
423
424 Enabled new regular expression engine.
425
426 Made a number of changes to the debugger protocol.
427
428 Fixed a number of bugs in the preemption support.
429
430 Added -p option to the developer shell to run files in parallel
431 using preemption.
432
433 Fixed a number of minor bugs (including issues 176, 187, 189, 192,
434 193, 198 and 201).
435
436 Fixed a number of bugs in the serialization/deserialization
437 support for the ARM platform.
438
439
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +00004402009-01-19: Version 0.4.8.1
441
442 Minor patch to debugger support.
443
444
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +00004452009-01-16: Version 0.4.8
446
447 Fixed string length bug on ARM (issue 171).
448
449 Made most methods in the API const.
450
451 Optimized object literals by improving data locality.
452
453 Fixed bug that caused incomplete functions to be cached in case of
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +0000454 stack overflow exceptions.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000455
456 Fixed bugs that caused catch variables and variables introduced by
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +0000457 eval to behave incorrectly when using accessors (issues 186, 190
458 and 191).
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000459
460
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +00004612009-01-06: Version 0.4.7
462
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000463 Minor bugfixes and optimizations.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000464
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000465 Added command line debugger to D8 shell.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000466
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000467 Fixed subtle bug that caused the wrong 'this' to be used when
468 calling a caught function in a catch clause.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000469
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000470 Inline array loads within loops directly in the code instead of
471 always calling a stub.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000472
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000473
ager@chromium.org8bb60582008-12-11 12:02:20 +00004742008-12-11: Version 0.4.6
475
476 Fixed exception reporting bug where certain exceptions were
477 incorrectly reported as uncaught.
478
479 Improved the memory allocation strategy used during compilation to
480 make running out of memory when compiling huge scripts less
481 likely.
482
483 Optimized String.replace by avoiding the construction of certain
484 sub strings.
485
486 Fixed bug in code generation for large switch statements on ARM.
487
488 Fixed bug that caused V8 to change the global object template
489 passed in by the user.
490
491 Changed the API for creating object groups used during garbage
492 collection. Entire object groups are now passed to V8 instead of
493 individual members of the groups.
494
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000495
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +00004962008-12-03: Version 0.4.5
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000497
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +0000498 Added experimental API support for allocating V8 symbols as
499 external strings.
500
501 Fixed bugs in debugging support on ARM.
502
503 Changed eval implementation to correctly detect whether or not a
504 call to eval is aliased.
505
506 Fixed bug caused by a combination of the compilation cache and
507 dictionary probing in native code. The bug caused us to sometimes
508 call functions that had not yet been compiled.
509
510 Added platform support for FreeBSD.
511
512 Added support for building V8 on Windows with either the shared or
513 static version of MSVCRT
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000514
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000515 Added the v8::jscre namespace around the jscre functions to avoid
516 link errors (duplicate symbols) when building Google Chrome.
517
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +0000518 Added support for calling a JavaScript function with the current
519 debugger execution context as its argument to the debugger
520 interface.
521
522 Changed the type of names of counters from wchar_t to char.
523
524 Changed the Windows system call used to compute daylight savings
525 time. The system call that we used to use became four times
526 slower on WinXP SP3.
527
528 Added support in the d8 developer shell for memory-mapped counters
529 and added a stats-viewer tool.
530
531 Fixed bug in upper/lower case mappings (issue 149).
532
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000533
ager@chromium.org3bf7b912008-11-17 09:09:45 +00005342008-11-17: Version 0.4.4
535
536 Reduced code size by using shorter instruction encoding when
537 possible.
538
539 Added a --help option to the shell sample and to the d8 shell.
540
541 Added visual studio project files for building the ARM simulator.
542
543 Fixed a number of ARM simulator issues.
544
545 Fixed bug in out-of-memory handling on ARM.
546
547 Implemented shell support for passing arguments to a script from
548 the command line.
549
550 Fixed bug in date code that made certain date functions return -0
551 instead of 0 for dates before the epoch.
552
553 Restricted applications of eval so it can only be used in the
554 context of the associated global object.
555
556 Treat byte-order marks as whitespace characters.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000557
558
ager@chromium.org870a0b62008-11-04 11:43:05 +00005592008-11-04: Version 0.4.3
560
561 Added support for API accessors that prohibit overwriting by
562 accessors defined in JavaScript code by using __defineGetter__ and
563 __defineSetter__.
564
565 Improved handling of conditionals in test status files.
566
567 Introduced access control in propertyIsEnumerable.
568
569 Improved performance of some string operations by caching
570 information about the type of the string between operations.
571
572 Fixed bug in fast-case code for switch statements that only have
573 integer labels.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000574
ager@chromium.org870a0b62008-11-04 11:43:05 +0000575
kasperl@chromium.org9bbf9682008-10-30 11:53:07 +00005762008-10-30: Version 0.4.2
577
578 Improved performance of Array.prototype.concat by moving the
579 implementation to C++ (issue 123).
580
581 Fixed heap growth policy to avoid growing old space to its maximum
582 capacity before doing a garbage collection and fixed issue that
583 would lead to artificial out of memory situations (issue 129).
584
585 Fixed Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString to return the date in the
586 same format as WebKit.
587
588 Added missing initialization checks to debugger API.
589
590 Added removing of unused maps during GC.
591
592
kasperl@chromium.org9fe21c62008-10-28 08:53:51 +00005932008-10-28: Version 0.4.1
594
595 Added caching of RegExp data in compilation cache.
596
597 Added Visual Studio project file for d8 shell.
598
599 Fixed function call performance regression introduced in version
600 0.4.0 when splitting the global object in two parts (issue 120).
601
602 Fixed issue 131 by checking for empty handles before throwing and
603 reporting exceptions.
604
605
kasperl@chromium.org5a8ca6c2008-10-23 13:57:19 +00006062008-10-23: Version 0.4.0
607
608 Split the global object into two parts: The state holding global
609 object and the global object proxy.
610
611 Fixed bug that affected the value of an assignment to an element
612 in certain cases (issue 116).
613
614 Added GetPropertyNames functionality (issue 33) and extra Date
615 functions (issue 77) to the API.
616
617 Changed WeakReferenceCallback to take a Persistent<Value> instead
618 of a Persistent<Object> (issue 101).
619
620 Fixed issues with message reporting for exceptions in try-finally
621 blocks (issues 73 and 75).
622
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000623 Optimized flattening of strings and string equality checking.
kasperl@chromium.org5a8ca6c2008-10-23 13:57:19 +0000624
625 Improved Boyer-Moore implementation for faster indexOf operations.
626
627 Added development shell (d8) which includes counters and
628 completion support.
629
630 Fixed problem with the receiver passed to functions called from
631 eval (issue 124).
632
633
ager@chromium.org7c537e22008-10-16 08:43:32 +00006342008-10-16: Version 0.3.5
635
636 Improved string hash-code distribution by excluding bit-field bits
637 from the hash-code.
638
639 Changed string search algorithm used in indexOf from KMP to
640 Boyer-Moore.
641
642 Improved the generated code for the instanceof operator.
643
644 Improved performance of slow-case string equality checks by
645 specializing the code based on the string representation.
646
647 Improve the handling of out-of-memory situations (issue 70).
648
649 Improved performance of strict equality checks.
650
651 Improved profiler output to make it easier to see anonymous
652 functions.
653
654 Improved performance of slow-case keyed loads.
655
656 Improved property access performance by allocating a number of
657 properties in the front object.
658
659 Changed the toString behavior on the built-in object constructors
660 to print [native code] instead of the actual source. Some web
661 applications do not like constructors with complex toString
662 results.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000663
ager@chromium.org7c537e22008-10-16 08:43:32 +0000664
kasperl@chromium.org41044eb2008-10-06 08:24:46 +00006652008-10-06: Version 0.3.4
666
667 Changed Array.prototype.sort to use quick sort.
668
669 Fixed code generation issue where leaving a finally block with
670 break or continue would accumulate elements on the expression
671 stack (issue 86).
672
673 Made sure that the name accessor on functions returns the expected
674 names for builtin JavaScript functions and C++ callback functions.
675
676 Added fast case code for extending the property storage array of
677 JavaScript objects.
678
679 Ported switch statement optimizations introduced in version 0.3.3
680 to the ARM code generator.
681
682 Allowed GCC to use strict-aliasing rules when compiling.
683
684 Improved performance of arguments object allocation by taking care
685 of arguments adaptor frames in the generated code.
686
687 Updated the V8 benchmark suite to version 2.
688
689
ager@chromium.org236ad962008-09-25 09:45:57 +00006902008-09-25: Version 0.3.3
691
692 Improved handling of relocation information to enable more
693 peep-hole optimizations.
694
695 Optimized switch statements where all labels are constant small
696 integers.
697
698 Optimized String.prototype.indexOf for common cases.
699
700 Fixed more build issues (issue 80).
701
702 Fixed a couple of profiler issues.
703
704 Fixed bug where the body of a function created using the Function
705 constructor was not allowed to end with a single-line comment
706 (issue 85).
707
708 Improved handling of object literals by canonicalizing object
709 literal maps. This will allow JSON objects with the same set of
710 properties to share the same map making inline caching work better
711 for JSON objects.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000712
ager@chromium.org236ad962008-09-25 09:45:57 +0000713
kasperl@chromium.orgb9123622008-09-17 14:05:56 +00007142008-09-17: Version 0.3.2
715
716 Generalized the EvalCache into a CompilationCache and enabled it
717 for scripts too. The current strategy is to retire all entries
718 whenever a mark-sweep collection is started.
719
720 Fixed bug where switch statements containing only a default case
721 would lead to an unbalanced stack (issue 69).
722
723 Fixed bug that made access to the function in a named function
724 expression impossible in certain situations (issue 24).
725
726 Fixed even more build issues.
727
728 Optimized calling conventions on ARM. The conventions on ARM and
729 IA-32 now match.
730
731 Removed static initializers for flags and counters.
732
733 Improved inline caching behavior for uncommon cases where lazily
734 loading Date and RegExp code could force certain code paths go
735 megamorphic.
736
737 Removed arguments adaption for builtins written in C++. This
738 makes Array.prototype.push and Array.prototype.pop slightly
739 faster.
740
741
ager@chromium.org9258b6b2008-09-11 09:11:10 +00007422008-09-11: Version 0.3.1
743
744 Fixed a number of build issues.
745
746 Fixed problem with missing I-cache flusing on ARM.
747
748 Changed space layout in memory management by splitting up
749 code space into old data space and code space.
750
751 Added utf-8 conversion support to the API (issue 57).
752
753 Optimized repeated calls to eval with the same strings. These
754 repeated calls are common in web applications.
755
756 Added Xcode project file.
757
758 Optimized a couple of Array operation.
759
760 Fixed parser bug by checking for end-of-string when parsing break
761 and continue (issue 35).
762
763 Fixed problem where asian characters were not categorized as
764 letters.
765
766 Fixed bug that disallowed calling functions fetched from an array
767 using a string as an array index (issue 32).
768
769 Fixed bug where the internal field count on object templates were
770 sometimes ignored (issue 54).
771
772 Added -f option to the shell sample for compatibility with other
773 engines (issue 18).
774
775 Added source info to TryCatches in the API.
776
777 Fixed problem where the seed for the random number generator was
778 clipped in a double to unsigned int conversion.
779
780 Fixed bug where cons string symbols were sometimes converted to
781 non-symbol flat strings during GC.
782
783 Fixed bug in error reporting when attempting to convert null to an
784 object.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000785
786
ager@chromium.orgc27e4e72008-09-04 13:52:27 +00007872008-09-04: Version 0.3.0
788
789 Added support for running tests on the ARM simulator.
790
791 Fixed bug in the 'in' operator where negative indices were not
792 treated correctly.
793
794 Fixed build issues on gcc-4.3.1.
795
796 Changed Date.prototype.toLocaleTimeString to not print the
797 timezone part of the time.
798
799 Renamed debug.h to v8-debug.h to reduce the risk of name conflicts
800 with user code.
801
802
v8.team.kasperl727e9952008-09-02 14:56:44 +00008032008-09-02: Version 0.2.5
804
805 Renamed the top level directory 'public' to 'include'.
806
807 Added 'env' option to the SCons build scripts to support
808 overriding the ENV part of the build environment. This is mostly
809 to support Windows builds in cases where SCons cannot find the
810 correct paths to the Windows SDK, as these paths cannot be passed
811 through shell environment variables.
812
813 Enabled "Buffer Security Check" on for the Windows SCons build and
814 added the linker option /OPT:ICF as an optimization.
815
816 Added the V8 benchmark suite to the repository.
817
818
mads.s.ager@gmail.com9a4089a2008-09-01 08:55:01 +00008192008-09-01: Version 0.2.4
820
821 Included mjsunit JavaScript test suite and C++ unit tests.
822
823 Changed the shell sample to not print the result of executing a
824 script provided on the command line.
825
826 Fixed issue when building samples on Windows using a shared V8
827 library. Added visibility option on Linux build which makes the
828 generated library 18% smaller.
829
830 Changed build system to accept multiple build modes in one build
831 and generate separate objects, libraries and executables for each
832 mode.
833
834 Removed deferred negation optimization (a * -b => -(a * b)) since
835 this visibly changes operand conversion order.
836
837 Improved parsing performance by introducing stack guard in
838 preparsing. Without a stack guard preparsing always bails out
839 with stack overflow.
840
841 Changed shell sample to take flags directly from the command-line.
842 Added API call that implements this.
843
844 Added load, quit and version functions to the shell sample so it's
845 easier to run benchmarks and tests.
846
847 Fixed issue with building samples and cctests on 64-bit machines.
848
849 Fixed bug in the runtime system where the prototype chain was not
850 always searched for a setter when setting a property that does not
851 exist locally.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000852
mads.s.ager@gmail.com9a4089a2008-09-01 08:55:01 +0000853
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00008542008-08-14: Version 0.2.3
855
856 Improved performance of garbage collection by moving the
857 function that updates pointers during compacting collection
858 into the updating visitor. This gives the compiler a better
859 chance to inline and avoid a function call per (potential)
860 pointer.
861
862 Extended the shell sample with a --runtime-flags option.
863
864 Added Visual Studio project files for the shell.cc and
865 process.cc samples.
866
867
8682008-08-13: Version 0.2.2
mads.s.ager31e71382008-08-13 09:32:07 +0000869
870 Improved performance of garbage collection by changing the way
871 we use the marking stack in the event of stack overflow during
872 full garbage collection and by changing the way we mark roots.
873
874 Cleaned up ARM version by removing top of stack caching and by
875 introducing push/pop elimination.
876
877 Cleaned up the way runtime functions are called to allow
878 runtime calls with no arguments.
879
880 Changed Windows build options to make sure that exceptions are
881 disabled and that optimization flags are enabled.
882
883 Added first version of Visual Studio project files.
884
885
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00008862008-08-06: Version 0.2.1
mads.s.ager@gmail.com769cc962008-08-06 10:02:49 +0000887
888 Improved performance of unary addition by avoiding runtime calls.
889
890 Fixed the handling of '>' and '<=' to use right-to-left conversion
891 and left-to-right evaluation as specified by ECMA-262.
892
893 Fixed a branch elimination bug on the ARM platform where incorrect
894 code was generated because of overly aggressive branch
895 elimination.
896
897 Improved performance of code that repeatedly assigns the same
898 function to the same property of different objects with the same
899 map.
900
901 Untangled DEBUG and ENABLE_DISASSEMBLER defines. The disassembler
902 no longer expects DEBUG to be defined.
903
904 Added platform-nullos.cc to serve as the basis for new platform
905 implementations.
906
mads.s.ager31e71382008-08-13 09:32:07 +0000907
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009082008-07-30: Version 0.2.0
kasper.lund7276f142008-07-30 08:49:36 +0000909
910 Changed all text files to have native svn:eol-style.
911
912 Added a few samples and support for building them. The samples
913 include a simple shell that can be used to benchmark and test V8.
914
915 Changed V8::GetVersion to return the version as a string.
916
917 Added source for lazily loaded scripts to snapshots and made
918 serialization non-destructive.
919
920 Improved ARM support by fixing the write barrier code to use
921 aligned loads and stores and by removing premature locals
922 optimization that relied on broken support for callee-saved
923 registers (removed).
924
925 Refactored the code for marking live objects during garbage
926 collection and the code for allocating objects in paged
927 spaces. Introduced an abstraction for the map word of a heap-
928 allocated object and changed the memory allocator to allocate
929 executable memory only for spaces that may contain code objects.
930
931 Moved StringBuilder to utils.h and ScopedLock to platform.h, where
932 they can be used by debugging and logging modules. Added
933 thread-safe message queues for dealing with debugger events.
934
935 Fixed the source code reported by toString for certain builtin
936 empty functions and made sure that the prototype property of a
937 function is enumerable.
938
939 Improved performance of converting values to condition flags in
940 generated code.
941
942 Merged disassembler-{arch} files.
943
944
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009452008-07-28: Version 0.1.4
kasper.lundaf4734f2008-07-28 12:50:18 +0000946
947 Added support for storing JavaScript stack traces in a stack
948 allocated buffer to make it visible in shallow core dumps.
949 Controlled by the --preallocate-message-memory flag which is
950 disabled by default.
951
952
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009532008-07-25: Version 0.1.3
kasper.lund44510672008-07-25 07:37:58 +0000954
955 Fixed bug in JSObject::GetPropertyAttributePostInterceptor where
956 map transitions would count as properties.
957
958 Allowed aliased eval invocations by treating them as evals in the
959 global context. This may change in the future.
960
961 Added support for accessing the last entered context through the
962 API and renamed Context::Current to Context::GetCurrent and
963 Context::GetSecurityContext to Context::GetCurrentSecurityContext.
964
965 Fixed bug in the debugger that would cause the debugger scripts to
966 be recursively loaded and changed all disabling of interrupts to
967 be block-structured.
968
969 Made snapshot data read-only to allow it to be more easily shared
970 across multiple users of V8 when linked as a shared library.
971
972
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009732008-07-16: Version 0.1.2
kasper.lund212ac232008-07-16 07:07:30 +0000974
975 Fixed building on Mac OS X by recognizing i386 and friends as
976 IA-32 platforms.
977
978 Added propagation of stack overflow exceptions that occur while
979 compiling nested functions.
980
981 Improved debugger with support for recursive break points and
982 handling of exceptions that occur in the debugger JavaScript code.
983
984 Renamed GetInternal to GetInternalField and SetInternal to
985 SetInternalField in the API and moved InternalFieldCount and
986 SetInternalFieldCount from FunctionTemplate to ObjectTemplate.
987
988
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009892008-07-09: Version 0.1.1
kasper.lundbd3ec4e2008-07-09 11:06:54 +0000990
991 Fixed bug in stack overflow check code for IA-32 targets where a
992 non-tagged value in register eax was pushed to the stack.
993
994 Fixed potential quadratic behavior when converting strings to
995 numbers.
996
997 Fixed bug where the return value from Object::SetProperty could
998 end up being the property holder instead of the written value.
999
1000 Improved debugger support by allowing nested break points and by
1001 dealing with stack-overflows when compiling functions before
1002 setting break points in them.
1003
1004
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +000010052008-07-03: Version 0.1.0
christian.plesner.hansen43d26ec2008-07-03 15:10:15 +00001006
kasper.lundbd3ec4e2008-07-09 11:06:54 +00001007 Initial export.
christian.plesner.hansen43d26ec2008-07-03 15:10:15 +00001008