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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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