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kasperl@chromium.org68ac0092009-07-09 06:00:35 +000012009-07-09: Version 1.2.13
2
3 Fixed issue 397, issue 398, and issue 399.
4
5 Added support for breakpoint groups.
6
7 Fixed bugs introduced with the new global object representation.
8
9 Fixed a few bugs in the ARM code generator.
10
11
kasperl@chromium.org86f77b72009-07-06 08:21:57 +0000122009-07-06: Version 1.2.12
13
14 Added stack traces collection to Error objects accessible through
15 the e.stack property.
16
17 Changed RegExp parser to use a recursive data structure instead of
18 stack-based recursion.
19
20 Optimized Date object construction and string concatenation.
21
22 Improved performance of div, mod, and mul on ARM platforms.
23
24
kasperl@chromium.org2abc4502009-07-02 07:00:29 +0000252009-07-02: Version 1.2.11
26
27 Improved performance on IA-32 and ARM.
28
29 Fixed profiler sampler implementation on Mac OS X.
30
31 Changed the representation of global objects to improve
32 performance of adding a lot of new properties.
33
34
ager@chromium.org3e875802009-06-29 08:26:34 +0000352009-06-29: Version 1.2.10
36
37 Improved debugger support.
38
39 Fixed bug in exception message reporting (issue 390).
40
41 Improved overall performance.
42
43
ager@chromium.org5aa501c2009-06-23 07:57:28 +0000442009-06-23: Version 1.2.9
45
46 Improved math performance on ARM.
47
48 Fixed profiler name-inference bug.
49
50 Fixed handling of shared libraries in the profiler tick processor
51 scripts.
52
53 Fixed handling of tests that time out in the test scripts.
54
55 Fixed compilation on MacOS X version 10.4.
56
57 Fixed two bugs in the regular expression engine.
58
59 Fixed a bug in the string type inference.
60
61 Fixed a bug in the handling of 'constant function' properties.
62
63 Improved overall performance.
64
65
ager@chromium.orgeadaf222009-06-16 09:43:10 +0000662009-06-16: Version 1.2.8
67
68 Optimized math on ARM platforms.
69
70 Fixed two crash bugs in the handling of getters and setters.
71
72 Improved the debugger support by adding scope chain information.
73
74 Improved the profiler support by compressing log data transmitted
75 to clients.
76
77 Improved overall performance.
78
79
ager@chromium.orge2902be2009-06-08 12:21:35 +0000802009-06-08: Version 1.2.7
81
82 Improved debugger and profiler support.
83
84 Reduced compilation time by improving the handling of deferred
85 code.
86
87 Optimized interceptor accesses where the property is on the object
88 on which the interceptors is attached.
89
90 Fixed compilation problem on GCC 4.4 by changing the stack
91 alignment to 16 bytes.
92
93 Fixed handle creation to follow stric aliasing rules.
94
95 Fixed compilation on FreeBSD.
96
97 Introduced API for forcing the deletion of a property ignoring
98 interceptors and attributes.
99
100
sgjesse@chromium.org755c5b12009-05-29 11:04:38 +00001012009-05-29: Version 1.2.6
102
103 Added a histogram recording hit rates at different levels of the
104 compilation cache.
105
106 Added stack overflow check for the RegExp analysis phase. Previously a
107 very long regexp graph could overflow the stack with recursive calls.
108
109 Use a dynamic buffer when collecting log events in memory.
110
111 Added start/stop events to the profiler log.
112
113 Fixed infinite loop which could happen when setting a debug break while
114 executing a RegExp compiled to native code.
115
116 Fixed handling of lastIndexOf called with negative index (issue 351).
117
118 Fixed irregular crash in profiler test (issue 358).
119
120 Fixed compilation issues with some versions of gcc.
121
122
kasperl@chromium.org71affb52009-05-26 05:44:31 +00001232009-05-26: Version 1.2.5
124
125 Fixed bug in initial boundary check for Boyer-Moore text
126 search (issue 349).
127
128 Fixed compilation issues with MinGW and gcc 4.3+ and added support
129 for armv7 and cortex-a8 architectures. Patches by Lei Zhang and
130 Craig Schlenter.
131
132 Added a script cache to the debugger.
133
134 Optimized compilation performance by improving internal data
135 structures and avoiding expensive property load optimizations for
136 code that's infrequently executed.
137
138 Exposed the calling JavaScript context through the static API
139 function Context::GetCalling().
140
141
kasperl@chromium.orgb3284ad2009-05-18 06:12:45 +00001422009-05-18: Version 1.2.4
143
144 Improved performance of floating point number allocation for ARM
145 platforms.
146
147 Fixed crash when using the instanceof operator on functions with
148 number values in their prototype chain (issue 341).
149
150 Optimized virtual frame operations in the code generator to speed
151 up compilation time and allocated the frames in the zone.
152
153 Made the representation of virtual frames and jump targets in the
154 code generator much more compact.
155
156 Avoided linear search for non-locals in scope code when resolving
157 variables inside with and eval scopes.
158
159 Optimized lexical scanner by dealing with whitespace as part of
160 the token scanning instead of as a separate step before it.
161
162 Changed the scavenging collector so that promoted objects do not
163 reside in the old generation while their remembered set is being
164 swept for pointers into the young generation.
165
166 Fixed numeric overflow handling when compiling count operations.
167
168
ager@chromium.org9085a012009-05-11 19:22:57 +00001692009-05-11: Version 1.2.3
170
171 Fixed bug in reporting of out-of-memory situations.
172
173 Introduced hidden prototypes on certain builtin prototype objects
174 such as String.prototype to emulate JSC's behavior of restoring
175 the original function when deleting functions from those prototype
176 objects.
177
178 Fixed crash bug in the register allocator.
179
180
ager@chromium.org5ec48922009-05-05 07:25:34 +00001812009-05-04: Version 1.2.2
182
183 Fixed bug in array sorting for sparse arrays (issue 326).
184
185 Added support for adding a soname when building a shared library
186 on Linux (issue 151).
187
188 Fixed bug caused by morphing internal ASCII strings to external
189 two-byte strings. Slices over ASCII strings have to forward ASCII
190 checks to the underlying buffer string.
191
192 Allowed API call-as-function handlers to be called as
193 constructors.
194
195 Fixed a crash bug where an external string was disposed but a
196 slice of the external string survived as a symbol.
197
198
ager@chromium.org3a37e9b2009-04-27 09:26:21 +00001992009-04-27: Version 1.2.1
200
201 Added EcmaScript 5 JSON object.
202
203 Fix bug in preemption support on ARM.
204
205
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +00002062009-04-23: Version 1.2.0
207
208 Optimized floating-point operations on ARM.
209
210 Added a number of extensions to the debugger API.
211
212 Changed the enumeration order for unsigned integer keys to always
213 be numerical order.
214
215 Added a "read" extension to the shell sample.
216
217 Added support for Array.prototype.reduce and
218 Array.prototype.reduceRight.
219
220 Added an option to the SCons build to control Microsoft Visual C++
221 link-time code generation.
222
223 Fixed a number of bugs (in particular issue 315, issue 316,
224 issue 317 and issue 318).
225
226
kasperl@chromium.org2d18d102009-04-15 13:27:32 +00002272009-04-15: Version 1.1.10
228
229 Fixed crash bug that occurred when loading a const variable in the
230 presence of eval.
231
232 Allowed using with and eval in registered extensions in debug mode
233 by fixing bogus assert.
234
235 Fixed the source position for function returns to enable the
236 debugger to break there.
237
238
kasperl@chromium.orgd1e3e722009-04-14 13:38:25 +00002392009-04-14: Version 1.1.9
240
241 Made the stack traversal code in the profiler robust by avoiding
242 to look into the heap.
243
244 Added name inferencing for anonymous functions to facilitate
245 debugging and profiling.
246
247 Re-enabled stats timers in the developer shell (d8).
248
249 Fixed issue 303 by avoiding to shortcut cons-symbols.
250
251
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +00002522009-04-11: Version 1.1.8
253
254 Changed test-debug/ThreadedDebugging to be non-flaky (issue 96).
255
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +0000256 Fixed step-in handling for Function.prototype.apply and call in
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +0000257 the debugger (issue 269).
258
259 Fixed v8::Object::DeleteHiddenValue to not bail out when there
260 are no hidden properties.
261
ager@chromium.org65dad4b2009-04-23 08:48:43 +0000262 Added workaround for crash bug, where external symbol table
kasperl@chromium.orgacae3782009-04-11 09:17:08 +0000263 entries with deleted resources would lead to NPEs when looking
264 up in the symbol table.
265
266
kasperl@chromium.org8ccb0be2009-04-07 07:21:39 +00002672009-04-07: Version 1.1.7
268
269 Added support for easily importing additional environment
270 variables into the SCons build.
271
272 Optimized strict equality checks.
273
274 Fixed crash in indexed setters on objects without a corresponding
275 getter (issue 298).
276
277 Re-enabled script compilation cache.
278
279
ager@chromium.org8682a592009-04-01 10:47:14 +00002802009-04-01: Version 1.1.6
281
282 Reverted an unsafe code generator change.
283
284
ager@chromium.org71daaf62009-04-01 07:22:49 +00002852009-04-01: Version 1.1.5
286
287 Fixed bug that caused function literals to not be optimized as
288 much as other functions.
289
290 Improved profiler support.
291
292 Fixed a crash bug in connection with debugger unloading.
293
294 Fixed a crash bug in the code generator caused by losing the
295 information that a frame element was copied.
296
297 Fixed an exception propagation bug that could cause non-null
298 return values when exceptions were thrown.
299
300
ager@chromium.org41826e72009-03-30 13:30:57 +00003012009-03-30: Version 1.1.4
302
303 Optimized String.prototype.match.
304
305 Improved the stack information in profiles.
306
307 Fixed bug in ARM port making it possible to compile the runtime
308 system for thumb mode again.
309
310 Implemented a number of optimizations in the code generator.
311
312 Fixed a number of memory leaks in tests.
313
314 Fixed crash bug in connection with script source code and external
kasperl@chromium.org8ccb0be2009-04-07 07:21:39 +0000315 strings.
ager@chromium.org41826e72009-03-30 13:30:57 +0000316
317
kasperl@chromium.orgf5aa8372009-03-24 14:47:14 +00003182009-03-24: Version 1.1.3
319
320 Fixed assertion failures in compilation of loop conditions.
321
322 Removed STL dependency from developer shell (d8).
323
324 Added infrastructure for protecting the V8 heap from corruption
325 caused by memory modifications from the outside.
326
327
ager@chromium.orgbb29dc92009-03-24 13:25:23 +00003282009-03-24: Version 1.1.2
329
330 Improved frame merge code generated by the code generator.
331
332 Optimized String.prototype.replace.
333
334 Implemented __defineGetter__ and __defineSetter__ for properties
335 with integer keys on non-array objects.
336
337 Improved debugger and profiler support.
338
339 Fixed a number of portability issues to allow compilation for
340 smaller ARM devices.
341
342 Exposed object cloning through the API.
343
344 Implemented hidden properties. This is used to expose an identity
345 hash for objects through the API.
346
347 Implemented restarting of regular expressions if their input
348 string changes representation during preemption.
349
350 Fixed a code generator bug that could cause assignments in loops
351 to be ignored if using continue to break out of the loop (issue
352 284).
353
354
ager@chromium.org3a6061e2009-03-12 14:24:36 +00003552009-03-12: Version 1.1.1
356
357 Fixed an assertion in the new compiler to take stack overflow
358 exceptions into account.
359
360 Removed exception propagation code that could cause crashes.
361
362 Fixed minor bug in debugger line number computations.
363
364 8-byte align the C stack on Linux and Windows to speed up floating
365 point computations.
366
367
kasperl@chromium.org7be3c992009-03-12 07:19:55 +00003682009-03-12: Version 1.1.0
369
370 Improved code generation infrastructure by doing simple register
371 allocation and constant folding and propagation.
372
373 Optimized regular expression matching by avoiding to create
374 intermediate string arrays and by flattening nested array
375 representations of RegExp data.
376
377 Traverse a few stack frames when recording profiler samples to
378 include partial call graphs in the profiling output.
379
380 Added support for using OProfile to profile generated code.
381
382 Added remote debugging support to the D8 developer shell.
383
384 Optimized creation of nested literals like JSON objects.
385
386 Fixed a bug in garbage collecting unused maps and turned it on by
387 default (--collect-maps).
388
389 Added support for running tests under Valgrind.
390
391
kasperl@chromium.org061ef742009-02-27 12:16:20 +00003922009-02-27: Version 1.0.3
393
394 Optimized double-to-integer conversions in bit operations by using
395 SSE3 instructions if available.
396
397 Optimized initialization sequences that store to multiple
398 properties of the same object.
399
400 Changed the D8 debugger frontend to use JSON messages.
401
402 Force garbage collections when disposing contexts.
403
404 Align code objects at 32-byte boundaries.
405
406
ager@chromium.org381abbb2009-02-25 13:23:22 +00004072009-02-25: Version 1.0.2
408
409 Improved profiling support by performing simple call stack
410 sampling for ticks and by fixing a bug in the logging of code
411 addresses.
412
413 Fixed a number of debugger issues.
414
415 Optimized code that uses eval.
416
417 Fixed a couple of bugs in the regular expression engine.
418
419 Reduced the size of generated code for certain regular expressions.
420
421 Removed JSCRE completely.
422
423 Fixed issue where test could not be run if there was a dot in the
424 checkout path.
425
426
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +00004272009-02-13: Version 1.0.1
428
429 Fixed two crash-bugs in irregexp (issue 231 and 233).
430
431 Fixed a number of minor bugs (issue 87, 227 and 228).
432
433 Added support for morphing strings to external strings on demand
434 to avoid having to create copies in the embedding code.
435
436 Removed experimental support for external symbol callbacks.
437
438
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +00004392009-02-09: Version 1.0.0
440
441 Fixed crash-bug in the code generation for case independent 16 bit
442 backreferences.
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000443
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000444 Made shells more robust in the presence of string conversion
445 failures (issue 224).
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000446
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000447 Fixed a potential infinite loop when attempting to resolve
448 eval (issue 221).
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000449
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000450 Miscellaneous fixes to the new regular expression engine.
ager@chromium.org6f10e412009-02-13 10:11:16 +0000451
iposva@chromium.org245aa852009-02-10 00:49:54 +0000452 Reduced binary by stripping unneeded text from JavaScript library and
453 minifying some JavaScript files.
454
455
ager@chromium.orgddb913d2009-01-27 10:01:48 +00004562009-01-27: Version 0.4.9
457
458 Enabled new regular expression engine.
459
460 Made a number of changes to the debugger protocol.
461
462 Fixed a number of bugs in the preemption support.
463
464 Added -p option to the developer shell to run files in parallel
465 using preemption.
466
467 Fixed a number of minor bugs (including issues 176, 187, 189, 192,
468 193, 198 and 201).
469
470 Fixed a number of bugs in the serialization/deserialization
471 support for the ARM platform.
472
473
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +00004742009-01-19: Version 0.4.8.1
475
476 Minor patch to debugger support.
477
478
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +00004792009-01-16: Version 0.4.8
480
481 Fixed string length bug on ARM (issue 171).
482
483 Made most methods in the API const.
484
485 Optimized object literals by improving data locality.
486
487 Fixed bug that caused incomplete functions to be cached in case of
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +0000488 stack overflow exceptions.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000489
490 Fixed bugs that caused catch variables and variables introduced by
sgjesse@chromium.org715915b2009-01-19 16:08:47 +0000491 eval to behave incorrectly when using accessors (issues 186, 190
492 and 191).
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000493
494
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +00004952009-01-06: Version 0.4.7
496
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000497 Minor bugfixes and optimizations.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000498
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000499 Added command line debugger to D8 shell.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000500
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000501 Fixed subtle bug that caused the wrong 'this' to be used when
502 calling a caught function in a catch clause.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000503
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000504 Inline array loads within loops directly in the code instead of
505 always calling a stub.
christian.plesner.hansen@gmail.com37abdec2009-01-06 14:43:28 +0000506
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000507
ager@chromium.org8bb60582008-12-11 12:02:20 +00005082008-12-11: Version 0.4.6
509
510 Fixed exception reporting bug where certain exceptions were
511 incorrectly reported as uncaught.
512
513 Improved the memory allocation strategy used during compilation to
514 make running out of memory when compiling huge scripts less
515 likely.
516
517 Optimized String.replace by avoiding the construction of certain
518 sub strings.
519
520 Fixed bug in code generation for large switch statements on ARM.
521
522 Fixed bug that caused V8 to change the global object template
523 passed in by the user.
524
525 Changed the API for creating object groups used during garbage
526 collection. Entire object groups are now passed to V8 instead of
527 individual members of the groups.
528
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000529
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +00005302008-12-03: Version 0.4.5
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000531
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +0000532 Added experimental API support for allocating V8 symbols as
533 external strings.
534
535 Fixed bugs in debugging support on ARM.
536
537 Changed eval implementation to correctly detect whether or not a
538 call to eval is aliased.
539
540 Fixed bug caused by a combination of the compilation cache and
541 dictionary probing in native code. The bug caused us to sometimes
542 call functions that had not yet been compiled.
543
544 Added platform support for FreeBSD.
545
546 Added support for building V8 on Windows with either the shared or
547 static version of MSVCRT
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000548
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000549 Added the v8::jscre namespace around the jscre functions to avoid
550 link errors (duplicate symbols) when building Google Chrome.
551
ager@chromium.orga74f0da2008-12-03 16:05:52 +0000552 Added support for calling a JavaScript function with the current
553 debugger execution context as its argument to the debugger
554 interface.
555
556 Changed the type of names of counters from wchar_t to char.
557
558 Changed the Windows system call used to compute daylight savings
559 time. The system call that we used to use became four times
560 slower on WinXP SP3.
561
562 Added support in the d8 developer shell for memory-mapped counters
563 and added a stats-viewer tool.
564
565 Fixed bug in upper/lower case mappings (issue 149).
566
iposva@chromium.org96f667e2008-11-26 23:48:02 +0000567
ager@chromium.org3bf7b912008-11-17 09:09:45 +00005682008-11-17: Version 0.4.4
569
570 Reduced code size by using shorter instruction encoding when
571 possible.
572
573 Added a --help option to the shell sample and to the d8 shell.
574
575 Added visual studio project files for building the ARM simulator.
576
577 Fixed a number of ARM simulator issues.
578
579 Fixed bug in out-of-memory handling on ARM.
580
581 Implemented shell support for passing arguments to a script from
582 the command line.
583
584 Fixed bug in date code that made certain date functions return -0
585 instead of 0 for dates before the epoch.
586
587 Restricted applications of eval so it can only be used in the
588 context of the associated global object.
589
590 Treat byte-order marks as whitespace characters.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000591
592
ager@chromium.org870a0b62008-11-04 11:43:05 +00005932008-11-04: Version 0.4.3
594
595 Added support for API accessors that prohibit overwriting by
596 accessors defined in JavaScript code by using __defineGetter__ and
597 __defineSetter__.
598
599 Improved handling of conditionals in test status files.
600
601 Introduced access control in propertyIsEnumerable.
602
603 Improved performance of some string operations by caching
604 information about the type of the string between operations.
605
606 Fixed bug in fast-case code for switch statements that only have
607 integer labels.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000608
ager@chromium.org870a0b62008-11-04 11:43:05 +0000609
kasperl@chromium.org9bbf9682008-10-30 11:53:07 +00006102008-10-30: Version 0.4.2
611
612 Improved performance of Array.prototype.concat by moving the
613 implementation to C++ (issue 123).
614
615 Fixed heap growth policy to avoid growing old space to its maximum
616 capacity before doing a garbage collection and fixed issue that
617 would lead to artificial out of memory situations (issue 129).
618
619 Fixed Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString to return the date in the
620 same format as WebKit.
621
622 Added missing initialization checks to debugger API.
623
624 Added removing of unused maps during GC.
625
626
kasperl@chromium.org9fe21c62008-10-28 08:53:51 +00006272008-10-28: Version 0.4.1
628
629 Added caching of RegExp data in compilation cache.
630
631 Added Visual Studio project file for d8 shell.
632
633 Fixed function call performance regression introduced in version
634 0.4.0 when splitting the global object in two parts (issue 120).
635
636 Fixed issue 131 by checking for empty handles before throwing and
637 reporting exceptions.
638
639
kasperl@chromium.org5a8ca6c2008-10-23 13:57:19 +00006402008-10-23: Version 0.4.0
641
642 Split the global object into two parts: The state holding global
643 object and the global object proxy.
644
645 Fixed bug that affected the value of an assignment to an element
646 in certain cases (issue 116).
647
648 Added GetPropertyNames functionality (issue 33) and extra Date
649 functions (issue 77) to the API.
650
651 Changed WeakReferenceCallback to take a Persistent<Value> instead
652 of a Persistent<Object> (issue 101).
653
654 Fixed issues with message reporting for exceptions in try-finally
655 blocks (issues 73 and 75).
656
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000657 Optimized flattening of strings and string equality checking.
kasperl@chromium.org5a8ca6c2008-10-23 13:57:19 +0000658
659 Improved Boyer-Moore implementation for faster indexOf operations.
660
661 Added development shell (d8) which includes counters and
662 completion support.
663
664 Fixed problem with the receiver passed to functions called from
665 eval (issue 124).
666
667
ager@chromium.org7c537e22008-10-16 08:43:32 +00006682008-10-16: Version 0.3.5
669
670 Improved string hash-code distribution by excluding bit-field bits
671 from the hash-code.
672
673 Changed string search algorithm used in indexOf from KMP to
674 Boyer-Moore.
675
676 Improved the generated code for the instanceof operator.
677
678 Improved performance of slow-case string equality checks by
679 specializing the code based on the string representation.
680
681 Improve the handling of out-of-memory situations (issue 70).
682
683 Improved performance of strict equality checks.
684
685 Improved profiler output to make it easier to see anonymous
686 functions.
687
688 Improved performance of slow-case keyed loads.
689
690 Improved property access performance by allocating a number of
691 properties in the front object.
692
693 Changed the toString behavior on the built-in object constructors
694 to print [native code] instead of the actual source. Some web
695 applications do not like constructors with complex toString
696 results.
ager@chromium.org32912102009-01-16 10:38:43 +0000697
ager@chromium.org7c537e22008-10-16 08:43:32 +0000698
kasperl@chromium.org41044eb2008-10-06 08:24:46 +00006992008-10-06: Version 0.3.4
700
701 Changed Array.prototype.sort to use quick sort.
702
703 Fixed code generation issue where leaving a finally block with
704 break or continue would accumulate elements on the expression
705 stack (issue 86).
706
707 Made sure that the name accessor on functions returns the expected
708 names for builtin JavaScript functions and C++ callback functions.
709
710 Added fast case code for extending the property storage array of
711 JavaScript objects.
712
713 Ported switch statement optimizations introduced in version 0.3.3
714 to the ARM code generator.
715
716 Allowed GCC to use strict-aliasing rules when compiling.
717
718 Improved performance of arguments object allocation by taking care
719 of arguments adaptor frames in the generated code.
720
721 Updated the V8 benchmark suite to version 2.
722
723
ager@chromium.org236ad962008-09-25 09:45:57 +00007242008-09-25: Version 0.3.3
725
726 Improved handling of relocation information to enable more
727 peep-hole optimizations.
728
729 Optimized switch statements where all labels are constant small
730 integers.
731
732 Optimized String.prototype.indexOf for common cases.
733
734 Fixed more build issues (issue 80).
735
736 Fixed a couple of profiler issues.
737
738 Fixed bug where the body of a function created using the Function
739 constructor was not allowed to end with a single-line comment
740 (issue 85).
741
742 Improved handling of object literals by canonicalizing object
743 literal maps. This will allow JSON objects with the same set of
744 properties to share the same map making inline caching work better
745 for JSON objects.
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kasperl@chromium.orgb9123622008-09-17 14:05:56 +00007482008-09-17: Version 0.3.2
749
750 Generalized the EvalCache into a CompilationCache and enabled it
751 for scripts too. The current strategy is to retire all entries
752 whenever a mark-sweep collection is started.
753
754 Fixed bug where switch statements containing only a default case
755 would lead to an unbalanced stack (issue 69).
756
757 Fixed bug that made access to the function in a named function
758 expression impossible in certain situations (issue 24).
759
760 Fixed even more build issues.
761
762 Optimized calling conventions on ARM. The conventions on ARM and
763 IA-32 now match.
764
765 Removed static initializers for flags and counters.
766
767 Improved inline caching behavior for uncommon cases where lazily
768 loading Date and RegExp code could force certain code paths go
769 megamorphic.
770
771 Removed arguments adaption for builtins written in C++. This
772 makes Array.prototype.push and Array.prototype.pop slightly
773 faster.
774
775
ager@chromium.org9258b6b2008-09-11 09:11:10 +00007762008-09-11: Version 0.3.1
777
778 Fixed a number of build issues.
779
780 Fixed problem with missing I-cache flusing on ARM.
781
782 Changed space layout in memory management by splitting up
783 code space into old data space and code space.
784
785 Added utf-8 conversion support to the API (issue 57).
786
787 Optimized repeated calls to eval with the same strings. These
788 repeated calls are common in web applications.
789
790 Added Xcode project file.
791
792 Optimized a couple of Array operation.
793
794 Fixed parser bug by checking for end-of-string when parsing break
795 and continue (issue 35).
796
797 Fixed problem where asian characters were not categorized as
798 letters.
799
800 Fixed bug that disallowed calling functions fetched from an array
801 using a string as an array index (issue 32).
802
803 Fixed bug where the internal field count on object templates were
804 sometimes ignored (issue 54).
805
806 Added -f option to the shell sample for compatibility with other
807 engines (issue 18).
808
809 Added source info to TryCatches in the API.
810
811 Fixed problem where the seed for the random number generator was
812 clipped in a double to unsigned int conversion.
813
814 Fixed bug where cons string symbols were sometimes converted to
815 non-symbol flat strings during GC.
816
817 Fixed bug in error reporting when attempting to convert null to an
818 object.
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820
ager@chromium.orgc27e4e72008-09-04 13:52:27 +00008212008-09-04: Version 0.3.0
822
823 Added support for running tests on the ARM simulator.
824
825 Fixed bug in the 'in' operator where negative indices were not
826 treated correctly.
827
828 Fixed build issues on gcc-4.3.1.
829
830 Changed Date.prototype.toLocaleTimeString to not print the
831 timezone part of the time.
832
833 Renamed debug.h to v8-debug.h to reduce the risk of name conflicts
834 with user code.
835
836
v8.team.kasperl727e9952008-09-02 14:56:44 +00008372008-09-02: Version 0.2.5
838
839 Renamed the top level directory 'public' to 'include'.
840
841 Added 'env' option to the SCons build scripts to support
842 overriding the ENV part of the build environment. This is mostly
843 to support Windows builds in cases where SCons cannot find the
844 correct paths to the Windows SDK, as these paths cannot be passed
845 through shell environment variables.
846
847 Enabled "Buffer Security Check" on for the Windows SCons build and
848 added the linker option /OPT:ICF as an optimization.
849
850 Added the V8 benchmark suite to the repository.
851
852
mads.s.ager@gmail.com9a4089a2008-09-01 08:55:01 +00008532008-09-01: Version 0.2.4
854
855 Included mjsunit JavaScript test suite and C++ unit tests.
856
857 Changed the shell sample to not print the result of executing a
858 script provided on the command line.
859
860 Fixed issue when building samples on Windows using a shared V8
861 library. Added visibility option on Linux build which makes the
862 generated library 18% smaller.
863
864 Changed build system to accept multiple build modes in one build
865 and generate separate objects, libraries and executables for each
866 mode.
867
868 Removed deferred negation optimization (a * -b => -(a * b)) since
869 this visibly changes operand conversion order.
870
871 Improved parsing performance by introducing stack guard in
872 preparsing. Without a stack guard preparsing always bails out
873 with stack overflow.
874
875 Changed shell sample to take flags directly from the command-line.
876 Added API call that implements this.
877
878 Added load, quit and version functions to the shell sample so it's
879 easier to run benchmarks and tests.
880
881 Fixed issue with building samples and cctests on 64-bit machines.
882
883 Fixed bug in the runtime system where the prototype chain was not
884 always searched for a setter when setting a property that does not
885 exist locally.
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mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00008882008-08-14: Version 0.2.3
889
890 Improved performance of garbage collection by moving the
891 function that updates pointers during compacting collection
892 into the updating visitor. This gives the compiler a better
893 chance to inline and avoid a function call per (potential)
894 pointer.
895
896 Extended the shell sample with a --runtime-flags option.
897
898 Added Visual Studio project files for the shell.cc and
899 process.cc samples.
900
901
9022008-08-13: Version 0.2.2
mads.s.ager31e71382008-08-13 09:32:07 +0000903
904 Improved performance of garbage collection by changing the way
905 we use the marking stack in the event of stack overflow during
906 full garbage collection and by changing the way we mark roots.
907
908 Cleaned up ARM version by removing top of stack caching and by
909 introducing push/pop elimination.
910
911 Cleaned up the way runtime functions are called to allow
912 runtime calls with no arguments.
913
914 Changed Windows build options to make sure that exceptions are
915 disabled and that optimization flags are enabled.
916
917 Added first version of Visual Studio project files.
918
919
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009202008-08-06: Version 0.2.1
mads.s.ager@gmail.com769cc962008-08-06 10:02:49 +0000921
922 Improved performance of unary addition by avoiding runtime calls.
923
924 Fixed the handling of '>' and '<=' to use right-to-left conversion
925 and left-to-right evaluation as specified by ECMA-262.
926
927 Fixed a branch elimination bug on the ARM platform where incorrect
928 code was generated because of overly aggressive branch
929 elimination.
930
931 Improved performance of code that repeatedly assigns the same
932 function to the same property of different objects with the same
933 map.
934
935 Untangled DEBUG and ENABLE_DISASSEMBLER defines. The disassembler
936 no longer expects DEBUG to be defined.
937
938 Added platform-nullos.cc to serve as the basis for new platform
939 implementations.
940
mads.s.ager31e71382008-08-13 09:32:07 +0000941
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009422008-07-30: Version 0.2.0
kasper.lund7276f142008-07-30 08:49:36 +0000943
944 Changed all text files to have native svn:eol-style.
945
946 Added a few samples and support for building them. The samples
947 include a simple shell that can be used to benchmark and test V8.
948
949 Changed V8::GetVersion to return the version as a string.
950
951 Added source for lazily loaded scripts to snapshots and made
952 serialization non-destructive.
953
954 Improved ARM support by fixing the write barrier code to use
955 aligned loads and stores and by removing premature locals
956 optimization that relied on broken support for callee-saved
957 registers (removed).
958
959 Refactored the code for marking live objects during garbage
960 collection and the code for allocating objects in paged
961 spaces. Introduced an abstraction for the map word of a heap-
962 allocated object and changed the memory allocator to allocate
963 executable memory only for spaces that may contain code objects.
964
965 Moved StringBuilder to utils.h and ScopedLock to platform.h, where
966 they can be used by debugging and logging modules. Added
967 thread-safe message queues for dealing with debugger events.
968
969 Fixed the source code reported by toString for certain builtin
970 empty functions and made sure that the prototype property of a
971 function is enumerable.
972
973 Improved performance of converting values to condition flags in
974 generated code.
975
976 Merged disassembler-{arch} files.
977
978
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009792008-07-28: Version 0.1.4
kasper.lundaf4734f2008-07-28 12:50:18 +0000980
981 Added support for storing JavaScript stack traces in a stack
982 allocated buffer to make it visible in shallow core dumps.
983 Controlled by the --preallocate-message-memory flag which is
984 disabled by default.
985
986
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +00009872008-07-25: Version 0.1.3
kasper.lund44510672008-07-25 07:37:58 +0000988
989 Fixed bug in JSObject::GetPropertyAttributePostInterceptor where
990 map transitions would count as properties.
991
992 Allowed aliased eval invocations by treating them as evals in the
993 global context. This may change in the future.
994
995 Added support for accessing the last entered context through the
996 API and renamed Context::Current to Context::GetCurrent and
997 Context::GetSecurityContext to Context::GetCurrentSecurityContext.
998
999 Fixed bug in the debugger that would cause the debugger scripts to
1000 be recursively loaded and changed all disabling of interrupts to
1001 be block-structured.
1002
1003 Made snapshot data read-only to allow it to be more easily shared
1004 across multiple users of V8 when linked as a shared library.
1005
1006
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +000010072008-07-16: Version 0.1.2
kasper.lund212ac232008-07-16 07:07:30 +00001008
1009 Fixed building on Mac OS X by recognizing i386 and friends as
1010 IA-32 platforms.
1011
1012 Added propagation of stack overflow exceptions that occur while
1013 compiling nested functions.
1014
1015 Improved debugger with support for recursive break points and
1016 handling of exceptions that occur in the debugger JavaScript code.
1017
1018 Renamed GetInternal to GetInternalField and SetInternal to
1019 SetInternalField in the API and moved InternalFieldCount and
1020 SetInternalFieldCount from FunctionTemplate to ObjectTemplate.
1021
1022
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +000010232008-07-09: Version 0.1.1
kasper.lundbd3ec4e2008-07-09 11:06:54 +00001024
1025 Fixed bug in stack overflow check code for IA-32 targets where a
1026 non-tagged value in register eax was pushed to the stack.
1027
1028 Fixed potential quadratic behavior when converting strings to
1029 numbers.
1030
1031 Fixed bug where the return value from Object::SetProperty could
1032 end up being the property holder instead of the written value.
1033
1034 Improved debugger support by allowing nested break points and by
1035 dealing with stack-overflows when compiling functions before
1036 setting break points in them.
1037
1038
mads.s.agercbaa0602008-08-14 13:41:48 +000010392008-07-03: Version 0.1.0
christian.plesner.hansen43d26ec2008-07-03 15:10:15 +00001040
kasper.lundbd3ec4e2008-07-09 11:06:54 +00001041 Initial export.
christian.plesner.hansen43d26ec2008-07-03 15:10:15 +00001042