From 99a4d307b057bd9da255733aaa3c145670daae35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Geoffray
-The vmkit project is an implementation of +The VMKit project 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.
-[NICOLAS]
+Following LLVM 2.4, VMKit has its first release 0.24 that you can find on +the release page. The release includes +bug fixes, cleanup and new features. The major changes include:
+Support for generics in the .Net virtual machine. This was implemented +by Tilmann Scheller during his Google Summer of Code project.
Initial support for the Mono class libraries.
Support for MacOSX/x86, following LLVM's support for exceptions in +JIT on MacOSX/x86. +
A new vmkit driver: a program to run java or .net applications. The +driver supports llvm command line arguments including the new "-fast" option. +
A new memory allocation scheme in the JVM that makes unloading a +class loader very fast.
VMKit now follows the LLVM Makefile machinery.