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authorBen Murdoch <benm@google.com>2012-04-11 18:30:58 +0100
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Roll V8 back to 3.6
Roll back to V8 3.6 to fix x86 build, we don't have ucontext.h. This reverts commits: 5d4cdbf7a67d3662fa0bee4efdb7edd8daec9b0b c7cc028aaeedbbfa11c11d0b7b243b3d9e837ed9 592a9fc1d8ea420377a2e7efd0600e20b058be2b Bug: 5688872 Change-Id: Ic961bb5e65b778e98bbfb71cce71d99fa949e995
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-2012-03-23: Version 3.9.24
-
- Activated count-based profiler for ARM.
-
- Fixed use of proxies as f.prototype properties. (issue 2021)
-
- Enabled snapshots on MIPS.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-21: Version 3.9.23
-
- Use correct arguments adaptation environment when inlining function
- containing arguments. (Issue 2014)
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-20: Version 3.9.22
-
- Enabled count-based profiler by default.
-
- Implemented a hash based look-up to speed up address checks
- in large object space (issue 853).
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-19: Version 3.9.21
-
- Fixed push-to-trunk script (and re-push).
-
- Added API call that identifies strings that are guaranteed only to
- contain ASCII characters.
-
-
-2012-03-19: Version 3.9.20
-
- Fixed declarations escaping global strict eval. (Issue 1624)
-
- Fixed wrapping of receiver for non-strict callbacks. (Issue 1973)
-
- Fixed function declarations overwriting read-only global properties.
- (Chromium issue 115452)
-
- Fixed --use-strict flag in combination with --harmony[-scoping].
-
- Debugger: naive implementation of "step into Function.prototype.bind".
-
- Debugger: added ability to set script source from within OnBeforeCompile
-
- Added flag to always call DebugBreak on abort.
-
- Re-enabled constructor inlining and inline === comparison with boolean
- constants. (Issue 2009)
-
- Don't use an explicit s0 in ClampDoubleToUint8. (Issue 2004)
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-14: Version 3.9.19
-
- Ensure there is a smi check of the receiver for global load and call
- ICs (Chromium issue 117794).
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-13: Version 3.9.18
-
- Ensure consistency of Math.sqrt on Intel platforms.
-
- Remove static initializers in v8. (issue 1859)
-
- Add explicit dependency on v8_base in the GYP-based build.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-12: Version 3.9.17
-
- Fixed VFP detection through compiler defines. (issue 1996)
-
- Add Code-related fields to postmortem metadata.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-09: Version 3.9.16
-
- Added basic interface inference for modules (behind the --harmony flag).
-
- Added Object.is, Number.isFinite, Number.isNaN.
-
- Updated the Unicode tables to Unicode version 6.1.0.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-06: Version 3.9.15
-
- Fix the heap profiler crash caused by memory layout changes between
- passes.
-
- Fix Error.prototype.toString to throw TypeError. (issue 1980)
-
- Fix double-rounding in strtod for MinGW. (issue 1062)
-
- Fix corrupted snapshot serializaton on ia32. (Chromium issue v8/1985)
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-03-01: Version 3.9.14
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-29: Version 3.9.13
-
- Added code kind check before preparing for OSR. (issue 1900, 115073)
-
- Fixed issue 1802: Pass zone explicitly to zone-allocation on x64 and
- ARM.
-
- Ported string construct stub to x64. (issue 849)
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-28: Version 3.9.12
-
- Fixed the negative lookup stub to handle deleted entries in a
- dictionary. (issue 1964)
-
- Added a new API where the host can supply a callback function. The
- callback function can resolve the location of a return address on stack
- to the location where a return-address rewriting profiler stashed the
- original return address.
-
- Fixed Chromium issue http://crbug.com/115646: When compiling for-in
- pass correct context value to the increment instruction.
-
- Fixed issue 1853: Update breakpoints set with partial file name after
- compile.
-
-
-2012-02-27: Version 3.9.11
-
- Made 'module' a context-sensitive keyword (V8 issue 1957).
-
-
-2012-02-24: Version 3.9.10
-
- Fixed V8 issues 1322, 1772 and 1969.
-
- Conformance improvements.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-23: Version 3.9.9
-
- Supported fast case for-in in Crankshaft.
-
- Sped up heap snapshot serialization and dominators construction.
-
- Randomized allocation addresses on windows. (Chromium issue 115151)
-
- Fixed compilation with MinGW-w64. (issue 1943)
-
- Fixed incorrect value of assignments to non-extensible properties.
-
- Fixed a crash bug in generated code on ia32.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-21: Version 3.9.8
-
- Fixed memory leak and missing #include in StartupDataDecompressor
- (issue 1960).
-
- Renamed static methods to avoid shadowing virtual methods and fix Clang
- C++11 compile error.
-
- Fixed sequence of element access in array builtins (issue 1790).
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-16: Version 3.9.7
-
- Fixed V8 issues 1322, 1878, 1942, 1945 and Chromium issue 113924.
-
- Fixed GCC-4.7 warnings.
-
- Added Navier-Stokes benchmark.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-14: Version 3.9.6
-
- Fixed template-related linker error. (issue 1936)
-
- Allowed inlining of functions containing object literals. (issue 1322)
-
- Added --call-graph-size option to tickprocessor. (issue 1937)
-
- Heap Snapshot maximum size limit is too low for really big apps. At the
- moment the limit is 256MB. (Chromium issue 113015)
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-09: Version 3.9.5
-
- Removed unused command line flags.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-08: Version 3.9.4
-
- Properly initialize element-transitioning array literals on ARM.
- (issue 1930)
-
- Bug fixes on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-07: Version 3.9.3
-
- When rethrowing an exception, print the stack trace of its original
- site instead of rethrow site (Chromium issue 60240).
-
- Increased size of small stacks from 32k to 64k to avoid hitting limits
- in Chromium (Chromium issue 112843).
-
-
-2012-02-06: Version 3.9.2
-
- Added timestamp to --trace-gc output. (issue 1932)
-
- Heap profiler reports implicit references.
-
- Optionally export metadata with libv8 to enable debuggers to inspect V8
- state.
-
-
-2012-02-02: Version 3.9.1
-
- Fixed memory leak in NativeObjectsExplorer::FindOrAddGroupInfo
- (Chromium issue 112315).
-
- Fixed a crash in dev tools (Chromium issue 107996).
-
- Added 'dependencies_traverse': 1 to v8 GYP target.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-02-01: Version 3.9.0
-
- Reduced memory use immediately after starting V8.
-
- Stability fixes and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-01-26: Version 3.8.9
-
- Flush number string cache on GC (issue 1605).
-
- Provide access to function inferred name with
- v8::Function::GetInferredName in V8 public API.
-
- Fix building with Clang (issue 1912).
-
- Reduce the space used by the stack for the profiling thread.
-
- Fix misleading documentation of v8::Locker (issue 542).
-
- Introduce readbinary function in d8 to read binary files.
-
- Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-01-23: Version 3.8.8
-
- Limited number of loop iterations in Heap::ReserveSpace
- (Chromium issue 99027).
-
- Fixed solaris build (VirtualMemory) (issue 1761).
-
- Fixed strict vs. non-strict handling of function proxies in
- higher-order array and string methods.
-
- Enabled asynchronous remote debugging with d8 (issue 1691).
-
- Stability and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2012-01-19: Version 3.8.7
-
- Ensure that LRandom restores rsi after call to the C function on x64.
- (Chromium issue http://crbug.com/110509)
-
- Fixing include issues on *bsd when building with scons.
- (issue 1897)
-
- Provide a switch to specify -fno-strict-aliasing
- (issue 1887)
-
- Move WIN32 define from standalone.gypi to common.gypi
- (issue 1760)
-
- Fix corner-case in heap size estimation.
- (issue 1893)
-
- Fix and enable NEW_NON_STRICT_FAST ArgumentsAccess stub on x64.
- (issue 1903)
-
- Performance improvements and bug fixes.
-
-
-2012-01-16: Version 3.8.6
-
- Add primitive WebGL array support to d8.
-
- Improve heap size estimation (issue 1893).
-
- Hash collision DOS workaround extended from string keys
- to numeric keys.
-
- Provide an API for iterating through all external strings referenced
- from the JS heap.
-
- Adjust position recorded for call expressions. http://crbug.com/109195
-
- Fix GC crash related to instanceof. http://crbug.com/109448
-
- Performance improvements and bug fixes.
-
-
-2012-01-05: Version 3.8.5
-
- Fix broken test that assumes that no GC can clear the regexp cache (GC
- can happen at any time due to Crankshaft).
-
- Fix handling of bogus receivers for Harmony collections. (issue 1884)
-
- Add netbsd support to gyp build.
-
- Determine page size at runtime on posix platforms.
-
- Ensure that store buffer filtering hash sets are cleared after
- StoreBuffer::Filter.
-
- Randomize the seed used for string hashing. This helps guard against
- CPU-eating DOS attacks against node.js servers. Based on code from
- Bert Belder. This version only solves the issue for those that compile
- V8 themselves or those that do not use snapshots. A snapshot-based
- precompiled V8 will still have predictable string hash codes.
-
- Implement callback when script finishes running in V8 API.
-
- Improve performance of Math.min and Math.max for the case of two
- arguments. (issue 1325)
-
-
-2012-01-02: Version 3.8.4
-
- Performance improvements for large Smi-only arrays.
-
- Fixed InternalArrays construction. (issue 1878)
-
-
-2011-12-27: Version 3.8.3
-
- Avoid embedding new space objects into code objects in the lithium gap
- resolver. (chromium:108296)
-
- Bug fixes and performance optimizations on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-12-21: Version 3.8.2
-
- Add max optimization flag to v8 gyp build to ensure V8 is always built
- fully optimized in Chrome.
-
- MIPS: Bring MIPS to parity with other platforms.
-
- Optimizations and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-12-19: Version 3.8.1
-
- Fixed GCC 4.7 warnings. Patch from Tobias Burnus.
-
- Stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-12-13: Version 3.8.0
-
- Fixed handling of arrays in DefineOwnProperty. (issue 1756)
-
- Sync parser and preparser on do-while and return statements.
- (issue 1856)
-
- Fixed another corner case for DefineOwnProperty on arrays (issue 1756).
-
- Stability and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-12-01: Version 3.7.12
-
- Increase tick interval for the android platform.
-
- Fix a bug in the register allocator. (chromium:105112)
-
- Fix handling of recompiling code. (chromium:105375, v8:1782)
-
- Start incremental marking on idle notification. (v8:1458)
-
- Build fixes for various platforms.
-
- Various performance improvements.
-
-
-2011-11-29: Version 3.7.11
-
- Fixed bug when generating padding to ensure space for lazy
- deoptimization.
- (issue 1846)
-
- Further reduced pause times due to GC.
-
- Stability and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-11-23: Version 3.7.10
-
- Set maximum length of FixedArray in terms of elements instead an
- absolute number of bytes.
- (Chromium issue 103103)
-
- Stability and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-11-21: Version 3.7.9
-
- Removed exit-time destructors.
-
- Stability and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-11-17: Version 3.7.8
-
- Removed hidden prototype from builtins, i.e., deleting an overridden
- function on builtins will not make the original function reappear.
-
- Added NetBSD support for scons build.
-
- Performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-11-14: Version 3.7.7
-
- Fix missing fast property accessors in heap snapshots.
- (issue 1818)
-
-
-2011-11-11: Version 3.7.6
-
- Fixed filtering of store buffer for large object pages.
- (issue 1817)
-
- Fixed generated hash function on all platforms.
- (issue 1808)
-
- Fixed Heap::Shrink to ensure that it does not free pages that are
- still in use.
- (Chromium issue 100414)
-
- Stability and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-11-10: Version 3.7.5
-
- Added initial gyp infrastructure for MIPS.
-
- Implemented performance improvements to the incremental garbage
- collector.
-
- Added optimizations and stability improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-11-07: Version 3.7.4
-
- Proper "libv8.so.3.7.4" SONAME for Linux shared library (issue 1786).
-
- Fix Harmony sets and maps to allow null and undefined as keys
- (still hidden behind --harmony flag) (issue 1622).
-
- Implement VirtualMemory on FreeBSD to fix build (issue 1807).
-
- Enable VFP instructions for Android.
-
- Fix error handling in Date.prototype.toISOString (issue 1792).
-
- Bug fixes and performance improvements for all platforms.
-
- Not officially supported but noteworthy: Crankshaft for MIPS :-)
-
-
-2011-10-28: Version 3.7.3
-
- Slight deoptimization as a workaround for issue with jslint: Issue
- 1789.
-
-
-2011-10-27: Version 3.7.2
-
- Fix bug in deoptimization. Known issue with jslint: Issue 1789.
-
-
-2011-10-26: Version 3.7.1
-
- Achieved 33% speedup in debug-mode tests.
-
- Removed special casing of calls to RegExp test and exec methods with no
- argument. Now matches new JSC behaviour. crbug.com/75740.
-
- Return the empty string on cyclic references in toString (ES5
- conformance).
-
- Fixed bug triggered by JSBeautifier. crbug.com/100409.
-
- Made Math.random state per-context instead of per-process (issue 864).
-
- Fixed stack traces to skip native functions.
-
- Make snapshots (new contexts) smaller and faster.
-
- Fixed handling of Function.apply for non-array arguments.
-
- Fixed evaluation order in defineProperties to match FireFox.
-
- Fixed handling of non-object receivers for array builtins,
- crbug.com/100702.
-
- Multiple fixes to improve compliance with test262.
-
- Fixed compatibility with older Android releases.
-
- Fixed compilation with gcc-4.5.3.
-
- Improved performance of WriteUtf8, issue 1665.
-
- Made native syntax an early error in the preparser.
-
- Fixed issues 793 and 893 relating to Function.prototype.bind.
-
- Improved let, const, Set and Map support and other Harmony features
- (behind the --harmony flag).
-
- Changed evaluation order for > and <= to match ES5 instead of ES3.
-
- Bug fixes and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-10-13: Version 3.7.0
-
- Fixed array handling for Object.defineOwnProperty (ES5 conformance).
-
- Fixed issue 1757 (string slices of external strings).
-
- Fixed issue 1759 (ARM).
-
- Added flag --noclever-optimizations to disable some things that
- caused trouble in the past.
-
- Added flag --stress-compaction for testing.
-
- Added flag --harmony to activate all experimental Harmony features.
-
-
-2011-10-10: Version 3.6.6
-
- Added a GC pause visualization tool.
-
- Added presubmit=no and werror=no flags to Makefile.
-
- ES5/Test262 conformance improvements.
-
- Fixed compilation issues with GCC 4.5.x (issue 1743).
-
- Bug fixes and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
-2011-10-05: Version 3.6.5
-
- New incremental garbage collector.
-
- Removed the hard heap size limit (soft heap size limit is still
- 700/1400Mbytes by default).
-
- Implemented ES5 generic Array.prototype.toString (Issue 1361).
-
- V8 now allows surrogate pair codes in decodeURIComponent (Issue 1415).
-
- Fixed x64 RegExp start-of-string bug (Issues 1746, 1748).
-
- Fixed propertyIsEnumerable for numeric properties (Issue 1692).
-
- Fixed the MinGW and Windows 2000 builds.
-
- Fixed "Prototype chain is not searched if named property handler does
- not set a property" (Issue 1636).
-
- Made the RegExp.prototype object be a RegExp object (Issue 1217).
-
- Disallowed future reserved words as labels in strict mode.
-
- Fixed string split to correctly coerce the separator to a string
- (Issue 1711).
-
- API: Added an optional source length field to the Extension
- constructor.
-
- API: Added Debug::DisableAgent to match existing Debug::EnableAgent
- (Issue 1573).
-
- Added "native" target to Makefile for the benefit of Linux distros.
-
- Fixed: debugger stops stepping outside evaluate (Issue 1639).
-
- More work on ES-Harmony proxies. Still hidden behind a flag.
-
- Bug fixes and performance improvements on all platforms.
-
-
2011-09-15: Version 3.6.4
Fixed d8's broken readline history.
@@ -838,7 +194,7 @@
Fix the debugger for strict-mode functions. (Chromium issue 89236)
- Add GetPropertyAttribute method for Object in the API. (Patch by
+ Add GetPropertyAttribute method for Object in the API. (Patch by
Peter Varga)
Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable for gcc-4.6 on x64. (Issue 1291)