CSE2410 Fall 2014 Bounce

2013-10-31: Version 3.22.24

        Fixed uint32-to-smi conversion in Lithium.

        (Chromium issue 309623)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-28: Version 3.22.23

        Renamed deprecated __attribute__((no_address_safety_analysis)) to

        __attribute__((no_sanitize_address)) (Chromium issue 311283)

        Defined DEBUG for v8_optimized_debug=2

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-25: Version 3.22.22

        Record allocation stack traces. (Chromium issue 277984,v8:2949)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-24: Version 3.22.21

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-24: Version 3.22.20

        Made Array.prototype.pop throw if the last element is not configurable.

        Fixed HObjectAccess for loads from migrating prototypes.

        (Chromium issue 305309)

        Enabled preaging of code objects when --optimize-for-size.

        (Chromium issue 280984)

        Exposed v8::Function::GetDisplayName to public API.

        (Chromium issue 17356)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-23: Version 3.22.19

        Fix materialization of captured objects with field tracking.

        (Chromium issue 298990)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-22: Version 3.22.18

        Add tool to visualize machine code/lithium.

        Handle misaligned loads and stores in load elimination. Do not track

        misaligned loads and be conservative about invalidating misaligned

        stores. (issue 2934)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-21: Version 3.22.17

        Harmony: Implement Math.trunc and Math.sign. (issue 2938)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-21: Version 3.22.16

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-18: Version 3.22.15

        Enabled calling the SetReference* & SetObjectGroupId functions with a

        Persistent<SubclassOfValue>.

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-17: Version 3.22.14

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-16: Version 3.22.13

        Do not look up ArrayBuffer on global object in typed array constructor.

        (issue 2931)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-15: Version 3.22.12

        Added histograms to track fraction of heap spaces and percentage of

        generated crankshaft code.

        Moved v8_optimized_debug default value to standalone.gypi.

        Track JS allocations as they arrive with no affection on performance

        when tracking is switched off (Chromium issue 277984).

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-14: Version 3.22.11

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-11: Version 3.22.10

        Fixed timezone issues with date-time/parse-* tests.

        (Chromium issue 2919)

        Added column getter to CpuProfileNode (Chromium issue 302537)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-10: Version 3.22.9

        Ensure only whitelisted stubs have sse2 versions in the snapshot.

        (fix for chromium 304565)

        Implement ArrayBuffer.isView.

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-04: Version 3.22.8

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-03: Version 3.22.7

        Debug: Allow stepping into on a given call frame

        (Chromium issue 296963).

        Always use timeGetTime() for TimeTicks::Now() on Windows

        (Chromium issue 288924).

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-02: Version 3.22.6

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-10-01: Version 3.22.5

        Disabled externalization of sliced/cons strings in old pointer space

        (Chromium issue 276357).

        Turned on handle zapping for release builds

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-09-30: Version 3.22.4

        Function::Call and Object::CallAsFunction APIs should allow v8::Value as

        a receiver (issue 2915).

        Removed unnecessary mutex (Chromium issue 291236).

        Removed ArrayBufferView::BaseAddress method.

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-09-27: Version 3.22.3

        Added methods to enable configuration of ResourceConstraints based on

        limits derived at runtime.

        (Chromium issue 292928)

        Added -optimize-for-size flag to optimize for memory size (will be used

        by pre-aging CL), and removed the is_memory_constrained

        ResourceConstraint.

        (Chromium issue 292928)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-09-26: Version 3.22.2

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-09-25: Version 3.22.1

        Sped up creating typed arrays from array-like objects.

        (Chromium issue 270507)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

2013-09-23: Version 3.22.0

        LiveEdit to mark more closure functions for re-instantiation when scope

        layout changes.

        (issue 2872)

        Made bounds check elimination iterative instead of recursive.

        (Chromium issue 289706)

        Turned on i18n support by default.

        Set the proper instance-type on HAllocate in BuildFastLiteral.

        (Chromium issue 284577)

        Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.