Partial release notes for 3.2.0, talking about the performance improvements
and removal of Addrcheck.
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+Release 3.2.0 (?? April 2006)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+3.2.0 is a feature release with a number of significant improvements:
+Performance (especially of Memcheck) is much improved, XXX...
+In detail:
+
+- Performance is much improved: programs typically run 1.20--1.40 times
+ faster under Memcheck, with an average of about 1.30 for the programs we
+ tested it on. The improvements for Nulgrind are similar. We haven't
+ measured Cachegrind and Massif, they should be also be faster, but with a
+ smaller improvement. We are interested to hear what speed-ups users get.
+
+- Memcheck uses much less memory. The amount of shadow memory used -- which
+ accounts for a large percentage of all of Memcheck's memory overhead --
+ has been reduced by a factor of more than 4 on most programs. This means
+ you should be able to run programs that use more memory than before
+ without hitting problems. This memory size reduction also contributes to
+ the speed improvements.
+
+- Addrcheck has been removed. It has not worked since version 2.4.0, and
+ with the speed and memory improvements to Memcheck it is no longer worth
+ having around. If you liked using Addrcheck because it didn't give
+ undefined value errors, you can use the new Memcheck option
+ --undef-value-errors=no to obtain this behaviour.
+
+- Valgrind now works on PPC64/Linux. [XXX: more details...]
+
+- XXX: others...
+
+BUGS FIXED:
+
+XXX
+
+
Release 3.1.1 (15 March 2006)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3.1.1 fixes a bunch of bugs reported in 3.1.0. There is no new