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author | Nicolas Geoffray <nicolas.geoffray@lip6.fr> | 2009-10-09 10:13:08 +0000 |
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committer | Nicolas Geoffray <nicolas.geoffray@lip6.fr> | 2009-10-09 10:13:08 +0000 |
commit | e83ae23878a3f11e00169d747b17addd090bd657 (patch) | |
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Add initial information on VMKit.
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html index 9f548c4..5a5a279 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes-2.6.html @@ -164,18 +164,22 @@ this project is encouraged to get involved!</p> <div class="doc_text"> <p> -<b>UPDATE!</b> The <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/">VMKit project</a> is an implementation of -a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machines (Microsoft .NET is an -implementation of the CLI) using the Just-In-Time compiler of LLVM.</p> +a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machine (Microsoft .NET is an +implementation of the CLI) using LLVM for static and just-in-time compilation.</p> -<p>Following LLVM 2.6, VMKit has its XYZ release that you can find on its +<p>VMKit version 0.26 builds with LLVM 2.6 and you can find it on its <a href="http://vmkit.llvm.org/releases/">webpage</a>. The release includes bug fixes, cleanup and new features. The major changes are:</p> <ul> -<li>Something wonderful!</li> +<li>A new llcj tool to generate shared libraries or executables of Java files.</li> +<li>A rewriting of the JVM C++ codebase to call LLVM garbage collection (GC) intrinsics when it manipulates GC objects. </li> +<li>Cooperative GC and precise stack scanning using the GC framework of LLVM. </li> +<li>Fast subtype checking (paper from Click et al [JGI'02]). </li> +<li>Implementation of a two-word header for Java objects instead of the orginal three-word header. </li> +<li>Better Java specification-compliance: division by zero checks, stack overflow checks, finalization and references support. </li> </ul> </div> |