[rvm-announce] Jikes RVM 2.9.3 released

[David P Grove]

We're very proud to announce that Jikes RVM version 2.9.3 is now available
for download! It's been a little bit longer than usual since the last
release and there's been quite a bit of activity on the project and
improvements to the system.  The appended release notes capture many of the
highlights; for more details see the hyperlinked version in JIRA (
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM/fixforversion/13726).

The release is available at
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jikesrvm/jikesrvm-2.9.3.tar.bz2..

** Bug
    * [RVM-196] - VM_Processor not assignable with VM_GreenScheduler
    * [RVM-314] - Support for Java 1.4 assertions
    * [RVM-315] - java.lang.Method.invoke changes the parameters
    * [RVM-316] - A Null pointer for the UTF8CHARSET in
java.util.zip.ZipFile$PartialInputStream
    * [RVM-326] - Failing basic tests don't signal failure
    * [RVM-330] - Thread.sleep() does not handle interrupts correctly
    * [RVM-339] - Image bloat (code +25% & data +5%)
    * [RVM-340] - Annotations don't handle arrays of primitive types
correctly
    * [RVM-342] - NPE with advice files
    * [RVM-347] - PPC 64 regressions and Intel stress regressions since the
introduction of read barriers
    * [RVM-351] - Javac regression
    * [RVM-352] - Running many iterations of _200_check fails floating
point remainder test
    * [RVM-353] - Production Opt 0 builds broken
    * [RVM-355] - Complete SPEC JVM with 20 iterations dies in GC
    * [RVM-357] - Fatal error when synchronising on null objects
    * [RVM-365] - PPC (AIX) Stack Scanning Appears Broken
    * [RVM-368] - Compiler confusion over equal but non-identical objects
    * [RVM-374] - Static field allocation is non-deterministic
    * [RVM-380] - We create a lot (15909) optimization plan atomic elements
using 572724bytes in the boot image
    * [RVM-383] - Branch likely and unlikely prefixes show up as LOCK
prefixes in x86 disassembler output
    * [RVM-394] - Tune inlining of arraycopy
    * [RVM-412] - Latent branch optimization bug when maximizing blocks
    * [RVM-424] - Multianewarray confusion in opt compiler
    * [RVM-439] - OSR triggering code misuses suspend/resume
    * [RVM-447] - Inline size estimation reduction factor calculation over
rates precise information causing bloat and slow down
    * [RVM-452] - Off-by-one error in "VMField.checkReadAccess" and
"VM.checkWriteAccess"
    * [RVM-456] - Clean build broken
    * [RVM-464] - Opt compiler ldc_w for class literal broken
    * [RVM-466] - Four tests in test run "tiny" fail when compiled with
-X:aos:initial_compiler=opt -X:aos:enable_recompilation=false
    * [RVM-467] - BURS performing illegal reordering to before PEI
    * [RVM-468] - Instanceof test differs in opt compiler from baseline for
instanceof/checkcast of magic[][]
    * [RVM-478] - Redesign AIX native method Linkage conventions to protect
CMID field from being smashed by native code saved CR

** Improvement
    * [RVM-81] - Annotations in java.lang classes
    * [RVM-195] - Enable inlining of @Pure methods
    * [RVM-274] - Remove OPT_ prefix from all opt compiler classes
    * [RVM-276] - opt compiler package structure
    * [RVM-304] - Improve performance of chacter encoder when encoding to
and from arrays
    * [RVM-305] - Add final annotations to java.io.OutputStreamWriter
    * [RVM-308] - Greater use of StringBuilder rather than StringBuffer
    * [RVM-309] - Greater use of "<Number>.valueOf" rather than "new
<Number>"
    * [RVM-310] - Class library fields that could be final aren't final
    * [RVM-311] - String toUpperCase and toLowerCase perform a
String.equals to see if the Locale is Turkey per invocation
    * [RVM-322] - Intel assembler register naming improvement required
    * [RVM-331] - Implement support for MMX registers
    * [RVM-343] - Support for hardware SQRT instruction
    * [RVM-344] - Simplifier rule for square root operator
    * [RVM-378] - Avoid replicating field and method vectors
    * [RVM-379] - Don't replicate OSR_EncodedOSRMaps
    * [RVM-381] - Upgrade to Classpath 0.97
    * [RVM-385] - Refactor reflection to use VM interface
    * [RVM-387] - Baseline compiler emits RegDisp instructions when the
Disp is 0
    * [RVM-390] - VM_Statics/JTOC space saving has cost us single iteration
fop performance
    * [RVM-391] - Assign CPU # to each VM_Processor to have more
predictable performance results.
    * [RVM-392] - Improvements to ZipEntry
    * [RVM-395] - Local common sub-expression elimination of Pure method
calls
    * [RVM-408] - Simple elimination of stack traces
    * [RVM-417] - Switch performance runs to using a profiled image
    * [RVM-421] - Pre-allocate 1 set of exception registers for athrow
    * [RVM-422] - Update to latest Classpath j.u.c.CopyOnWriteArrayList
    * [RVM-431] - Fix processor JNI entry/collector rendezvous race
    * [RVM-433] - Increase final fields in java.nio
    * [RVM-435] - Don't allocate memory when converting C buffers to
Strings or Classes
    * [RVM-437] - Integer.toString doesn't keep cache of common values
    * [RVM-451] - Structure of code in GNU Classpath java.util.Vector and
java.util.Arraylist interacts poorly with inlining

** New Feature
    * [RVM-210] - Add Image sizes tracking to Regression report and mailout
    * [RVM-319] - Create X10 test harness
    * [RVM-406] - Add Immix garbage collector
    * [RVM-441] - Sticky mark bits collector
    * [RVM-457] - Immix Garbage Collectors
    * [RVM-266] - Provide preliminary support for a non-copying
unsynchronised StringBuffer implementation

** Task and Sub-task
    * [RVM-425] - Implement 2d array helper for PPC baseline
    * [RVM-224] - Push OSR-specific fields in VM_NormalMethod to
subclass/side data structure
    * [RVM-450] - Prevent compilation at max opt level before some dynamic
call graph information has been gathered
    * [RVM-453] - Testing framework missing failures in basic tests that
use diff for sanity.


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