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author | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2009-02-26 22:33:38 +0000 |
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committer | Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org> | 2009-02-26 22:33:38 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 9dd7a02..3199c2b 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <ol> <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="#subproj">Sub-project Status Update</a></li> + <li><a href="#externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.5</a></li> <li><a href="#whatsnew">What's New in LLVM?</a></li> <li><a href="GettingStarted.html">Installation Instructions</a></li> <li><a href="#portability">Portability and Supported Platforms</a></li> @@ -61,6 +62,8 @@ current one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the one MBB to another debug info for optimized code interpreter + libffi + postalloc scheduler: anti dependence breaking, hazard recognizer? + --> <!-- for announcement email: @@ -98,7 +101,8 @@ and code generator. While Clang is not included in the LLVM 2.5 release, it is continuing to make major strides forward in all areas. Its C and Objective-C parsing and code generation support is now very solid. For example, it is capable of successfully building many real applications for X86-32 and X86-64, -including the FreeBSD kernel. C++ is also making <a +including <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang">the FreeBSD +kernel</a>. C++ is also making <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html">incredible progress</a>, and work on templates has recently started.</p> @@ -188,6 +192,64 @@ Spec JVM98 is 6x faster (performance gain of 83%).</li> </ul> </div> +<!-- *********************************************************************** --> +<div class="doc_section"> + <a name="externalproj">External Projects Using LLVM 2.5</a> +</div> +<!-- *********************************************************************** --> + +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_subsection"> +<a name="pure">Pure</a> +</div> + +<div class="doc_text"> +<p> +http://pure-lang.googlecode.com/ +</p> + +<p> +Pure is an algebraic/functional programming language based on term rewriting. +Programs are collections of equations which are used to evaluate expressions in +a symbolic fashion. Pure offers dynamic typing, eager and lazy evaluation, +lexical closures, a hygienic macro system (also based on term rewriting), +built-in list and matrix support (including list and matrix comprehensions) and +an easy-to-use C interface. The interpreter uses LLVM as a backend to + JIT-compile Pure programs to fast native code.</p> + +<p>In addition to the usual algebraic data structures, Pure also has +MATLAB-style matrices in order to support numeric computations and signal +processing in an efficient way. Pure is mainly aimed at mathematical +applications right now, but it has been designed as a general purpose language. +The dynamic interpreter environment and the C interface make it possible to use +it as a kind of functional scripting language for many application areas. +</p> +</div> + + +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_subsection"> +<a name="ldc">LLVM D Compiler</a> +</div> + +<div class="doc_text"> +<p> +http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc +</p> + +<p> +I'd like to inform that the LDC project (LLVM D +Compiler) is working with release 2.5 of LLVM. In fact we've required +2.5 in our trunk since the release was branched. +The improvements in 2.5 have fixed a lot of problems with LDC, more +specifically the new inline asm constraints, better debug info +support, general bugfixes :) and better x86-64 support have allowed +some major improvements in LDC, getting us much closer to being as +fully featured as the original DMD compiler from DigitalMars. +</p> +</div> + + <!-- *********************************************************************** --> <div class="doc_section"> @@ -243,7 +305,7 @@ how to write a backend doc docs/WritingAnLLVMBackend.html fastisel + exception handling vector widening <3 x float> -> <4 x float> arm port improvements? arm jit encoding stuff, constant island support? -JIT TLS support on x86-32. +JIT TLS support on x86-32 but not x86-64. mem2reg now faster on code with huge basic blocks stack protectors/stack canaries, -fstack-protector, controllable on a per-function basis with attributes. @@ -254,13 +316,12 @@ llvm/Analysis/DebugInfo.h classes, llvm-gcc and clang and codegen use them. DebugInfoBuilder gone. asmprinters seperate from targets for jits PBQP register allocator now supports register coalescing. -JIT supports exceptions on linux/x86-64. +JIT supports exceptions on linux/x86-64 and linux/x86-64. integer overflow intrinsics for [us](add/sub/mul). Supported on all targets, but only generates efficient code on x86. X86 backend now supports -disable-mmx. noalias attribute on return value indicates that function returns new memory (e.g. malloc). -postalloc scheduler: anti dependence breaking, hazard recognizer? llvmc2 renamed to llvmc Jump threading more powerful: it is iterative, handles threading based on values with fully redundant and partially redundant loads. |