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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/boehm-gc
From: Thomas Klausner
Date: 2007-07-07 17:21:08
Message id: 20070707152108.80CD421507@cvs.netbsd.org
Log Message:
Update to 7.0:
Changes relative to 6.8 include, in no particular order:
- Change C code to require at least C89. Clean up code in various
other respects.
- Win64 port.
- Always count how much live data there is in the heap. Add more
robust heap expansion heuristic which relies on this.
- Remove old-style Solaris threads support and some other obsolete
platform support.
- Restructure mark code, hopefully resulting in some performance
improvements.
- Change the GC code to traffic mostly in either bytes or allocation
granules, not words, internally.
- Provide for fast inline allocation that requires less frequent client
recompilations. (Needs more testing.)
- Removed SILENT configuration macro and PRINTSTATS and GATHERSTATS
macros. Control is now via GC_PRINT_STATS and GC_PRINT_VERBOSE_STATS
encironment variables.
- Thread local allocation is now performed without needing to call
special allocation functions. The configuration macro
THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC
continues to determine whether this is supported.
- Thread local allocation is supported on more platforms.
- Win32 threads code was rewritten and is hopefully more sane.
- Allocation routines now decide whether to lock dynamically, based on
whether a second thread has been created.
- Mostly untested support for a compiler write barrier.
- Use libatomic_ops for atomic operations.
- Limited support for malloc redirection with Linux threads (& NPTL ).
- Various bug fixes and some new platform support.
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