Version 10.0.7

What's Changed

• Update README.md by @guillep in #688
• Fix ephemeron scanning perf by @guillep in #691

Full Changelog: v10.0.6...v10.0.7

Version 10.0.6

Improvements in build environment

• Update build environment for Pharo 10 vm branch by @guillep in #594
• Make tests run in parallel by @guillep in #596
• Update Jenkins to use Pharo 110 for building by @PalumboN in #661

Cleanups

• Cleanups/externalize internalize by @guillep in #583
• Fix/warnings by @guillep in #584
• fixing-categorization in P10 by @tesonep in #625

Fixes

• Fix mnuMethodOrNilFor: for method wrappers by @guillep in #578
• fix function signatures by @pavel-krivanek in #582

Debugging improvements

• Gdbinit file and helpers v2 by @guillep in #486
• VM Debugger improvement with IR by @QDucasse in #342

VM Improvements

• improving-permSpace by @tesonep in #614
• Changing the order of command-line processing and PList in OSX by @tesonep in #609
• Adding parsing of image parameters from PList by @tesonep in #636
• Change terminate handler to exit with 128+signal by @jvalteren in #644
• Improvements in parameters handling in OSX by @tesonep in #639
• Adding check to fix when the image is open with an older VM by @tesonep in #642
• Fix/ephemeron list by @guillep in #668

New Contributors

• @jvalteren made their first contribution in #644

Full Changelog: v10.0.5...v10.0.6

Version 10.0.5

What's Changed

• Testing scavenger tenuring by @PalumboN in #588
• Deleting Pharo image from the vm repo by @jordanmontt in #591
• Cleaning Up Third Party Libraries by @tesonep in #581

Full Changelog: v10.0.4...v10.0.5

Version 10.0.4

What's Changed

• Composed image format by @PalumboN in #377
• Composed image format: C translation by @PalumboN in #388
• Perm space on image by @PalumboN in #416
• New & old remembered sets by @PalumboN in #418
• Reduce segment files size on move objects to PermSpace by @PalumboN in #508
• Adding option to not use contant block optimization for test by @StevenCostiou in #573
• Do not use newer CMAKE features by @estebanlm in #572
• Split a method in two to reuse part in espell by @jecisc in #569
• Adding Support for PermSpace by @tesonep in #488

New Contributors

• @StevenCostiou made their first contribution in #573
• @estebanlm made their first contribution in #572
• @jecisc made their first contribution in #569

Full Changelog: v10.0.3...v10.0.4

Version 10.0.3

What's Changed

• P10 - Fix in ARM32 by @tesonep in #562
• Verify ephemeron key is not immediate when marking by @guillep in #565

Full Changelog: v10.0.2...v10.0.3

Version 10.0.2

What's Changed

• Generate Pharo VM dependency graph by @hernanmd in #554
• Link against a shared SDL2 if already installed in target by @hernanmd in #555
• Slang: Integer>>#bitOr: and Integer>>#| are translated to C code differently by @hernanmd in #523
• Fix ephemeron compaction by @guillep in #561

Full Changelog: v10.0.1...v10.0.2

Version 9.0.22

v9.0.22

• Fixing size of LibC structures for file access to handle iNodes of 64 bits.
  This is needed in 32 bits systems that runs in a container or have big disks.
  It requires adding _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 compile option.

Version 10.0.0

Version 10.0.0

v10.0.0

• Slang (Smalltalk to C Translator)

  • Introducing a C AST to ease the generation of C Code
  • Having a Pretty Printer for C AST
  • Translation Tests
  • Fixing Translation Issues
  • Clear separation between Slang and VM code
  • Improving Cast generation

• Clean Up:

  • Remove Old Bytecode Set
  • Remove Old Block Implementation
  • Simplification of the Primitives
  • Removing Unused / Old Code / Dead Code
  • Cleanup / Removal of Old Unused primitives
  • Removing Old FFI Implementation
  • Removing MT Experiment from the code base (Kept in own branch)
  • Fixing Compilation Warnings
  • Improving Type annotations to fix bugs in the translation / compilation
  • Removing Conditional Code on Old Configurations / Features
  • Renaming Concepts to be inline with Common terminology
  • Remove Newspeak, Multiple Bytecode and Old Memory Managers
  • Removing Unused Plugins

• Tests

  • GNUification Tests
  • Tests for Math primitives including overflow and conversion testing.
  • Tests for comparison primitives (Equals / Not Equals / Less than / Less or Equals / Greater Than / Greater or Equals)
  • Testing Primitives for objects Pinned in Memory
  • Testing Math Primitives for Immediate Classes (SmallFloats / SmallIntegers)
  • Improving Simulation Infrastructure
  • Using Sista Bytecode in all Tests
  • Updating Unicorn version
  • Improving Machine Code emulation
  • Testing Image Read / Image Write
  • Using the same memory map in Tests and Execution
  • Testing Ephemerons
  • Become Primitives

• Ephemeron

  • Fix for large ammounts
  • Make it available
  • Testing Signal Finalizations

• Fixing Become Errors.

• Fixing XRay Primitive

• Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) initial Support:

  • Initialization of new objects using SIMD (ARM64)
  • Adding Bytecode Extensions to support SIMD instructions
  • Adding Vector Registers
  • Vector Register bytecodes

• Auto Localization of Interpreter loop variables and edge detection simplifying development and minimizing code

• ImageReader / ImageWriter reification needed for Permanent Space.

• Improving Memory Map of the VM (Using constant positions)

• Dependencies Improvements

Version v9.0.21

v9.0.21

• Implementing High resolution clock for ARM64 (Used during profiling)
• Updating third party libraries for all the graphic layer

v9.0.20

• Fixing a performance regression on the allocation of opcodes and fix-ups.
  Cleaning only the ones that are going to be used.
  Like this, this version has the same speed than before when allocating in the stack.

Version 9.0.19

v9.0.19

• Correctly handling the encoding of the command line arguments of the VM (Windows)
• Allocating the opcodes and fixup structs only once and reusing them (Reducing risk of C Stack Overflow)

v9.0.18

• Update library downloads in Windows to
  • libgit2 => 1.4.4

v9.0.17

• Supporting old images in OSX ARM64 with Libgit older than v1.4.4