From 2fb6e5c16caad264a5ddb3f3089bc2ee5daf59db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Lattner Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:09:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add a bunch of stuff that works with 2.8 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@115483 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.html | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 7f0628bbace..b4554047ebc 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ + LLVM 2.8 Release Notes @@ -152,12 +153,11 @@ production-quality compiler for C, Objective-C, C++ and Objective-C++ on x86

The VMKit project is an implementation of -a JVM and a CLI Virtual Machine (Microsoft .NET is an -implementation of the CLI) using LLVM for static and just-in-time -compilation.

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With the release of LLVM 2.8, ...

- +a Java Virtual Machine (Java VM or JVM) that uses LLVM for static and +just-in-time compilation. As of LLVM 2.8, VMKit now supports copying garbage +collectors, and can be configured to use MMTk's copy mark-sweep garbage +collector. In LLVM 2.8, the VMKit .NET VM is no longer being maintained. +

@@ -409,6 +409,107 @@ compiler backend or a VM in Python.

+ +
+FAUST Real-Time Audio Signal Processing Language +
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+

+FAUST is a compiled language for real-time +audio signal processing. The name FAUST stands for Functional AUdio STream. Its +programming model combines two approaches: functional programming and block +diagram composition. In addition with the C, C++, JAVA output formats, the +Faust compiler can now generate LLVM bitcode, and works with LLVM 2.7 and +2.8.

+ +
+ + +
+Jade Just-in-time Adaptive Decoder Engine +
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+

Jade +(Just-in-time Adaptive Decoder Engine) is a generic video decoder engine using +LLVM for just-in-time compilation of video decoder configurations. Those +configurations are designed by MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) committee. +MPEG RVC standard is built on a stream-based dataflow representation of +decoders. It is composed of a standard library of coding tools written in +RVC-CAL language and a dataflow configuration &emdash; block diagram &emdash; +of a decoder.

+ +

Jade project is hosted as part of the Open +RVC-CAL Compiler and requires it to translate the RVC-CAL standard library +of video coding tools into an LLVM assembly code.

+ +
+ + +
+LLVM JIT for Neko VM +
+ +
+

Neko LLVM JIT +replaces the standard Neko JIT with an LLVM-based implementation. While not +fully complete, it is already providing a 1.5x speedup on 64-bit systems. +Neko LLVM JIT requires LLVM 2.8 or later.

+ +
+ + +
+Crack Scripting Language +
+ +
+

+Crack aims to provide +the ease of development of a scripting language with the performance of a +compiled language. The language derives concepts from C++, Java and Python, +incorporating object-oriented programming, operator overloading and strong +typing. Crack 0.2 works with LLVM 2.7, and the forthcoming Crack 0.2.1 release +builds on LLVM 2.8.

+ +
+ + +
+Dresden TM Compiler (DTMC) +
+ +
+

+DTMC provides support for +Transactional Memory, which is an easy-to-use and efficient way to synchronize +accesses to shared memory. Transactions can contain normal C/C++ code (e.g., +__transaction { list.remove(x); x.refCount--; }) and will be executed +virtually atomically and isolated from other transactions.

+ +
+ + +
+Kai Interpreter +
+ +
+

+Kai (Japanese 会 for +meeting/gathering) is an experimental interpreter that provides a highly +extensible runtime environment and explicit control over the compilation +process. Programs are defined using nested symbolic expressions, which are all +parsed into first-class values with minimal intrinsic semantics. Kai can +generate optimised code at run-time (using LLVM) in order to exploit the nature +of the underlying hardware and to integrate with external software libraries. +It is a unique exploration into world of dynamic code compilation, and the +interaction between high level and low level semantics.

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