[llvm-commits] CVS: llvm-www/releases/1.2/announcement.txt

John Criswell criswell at cs.uiuc.edu
Fri Mar 19 11:37:02 PST 2004


Changes in directory llvm-www/releases/1.2:

announcement.txt updated: 1.1 -> 1.2

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Log message:

Updated for LLVM 1.2, but still needs more details, I think.



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Diffs of the changes:  (+7 -10)

Index: llvm-www/releases/1.2/announcement.txt
diff -u llvm-www/releases/1.2/announcement.txt:1.1 llvm-www/releases/1.2/announcement.txt:1.2
--- llvm-www/releases/1.2/announcement.txt:1.1	Fri Mar 12 12:15:06 2004
+++ llvm-www/releases/1.2/announcement.txt	Fri Mar 19 11:36:30 2004
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
   LLVM is a new infrastructure designed for compile-time, link-time, runtime,
   and "idle-time" optimization of programs from arbitrary programming
-  languages.  LLVM is written in C++ and has been developed over the past 3
+  languages.  LLVM is written in C++ and has been developed over the past 4
   years at the University of Illinois.  It currently supports compilation of
   C and C++ programs using front-ends derived from GCC 3.4.  New front-ends
   are being written for Java bytecode and CAML.
@@ -20,19 +20,16 @@
 
 WHAT IS NEW IN LLVM 1.2?
 
-  This release is primarily a bugfix release, dramatically improving the C/C++
-  front-end and improving support for C++ in the LLVM core. This release also
-  includes a few new features, such as a simple profiler, support for Mac OS X,
-  better interoperability with external source bases, a new example language
-  front-end, and improvements in a few optimizations.  This release also
-  features several substantial speedups and implementation of missing features.
+  This release is primarily a bugfix release featuring several substantial
+  speedups and improvements in implementation.  This release also includes a
+  new preliminary LLVM source level debugger and an experimental linear scan
+  register allocator.
 
   A full list of new features and bug-fixes are listed in the Release Notes:
     http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/releases/1.2/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#whatsnew
 
-  For an easier to read set of changes, please see the status updates:
-   http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-announce/2003-November/000003.html
-   http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-announce/2003-December/000004.html
+  For an easier to read set of changes, please see the status update:
+   http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-announce/2004-February/000005.html
 
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