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<ol> <ol>
<li><a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html">A new LLVM source-level debugger has been started.</a></li> <li><a href="SourceLevelDebugging.html">A new LLVM source-level debugger has been started.</a></li>
<li>LLVM 1.2 encodes bytecode files for large programs in 10-30% less space.</li> <li>LLVM 1.2 encodes bytecode files for large programs in 10-30% less space.</li>
<li>LLVM can now feed profile information back into optimizers for Profile Guided Optimization, and includes a simple basic block reordering pass.</li> <li>LLVM can now feed profile information back into optimizers for Profile Guided Optimization, includes a simple basic block reordering pass, and supports edge profiling as well as function and block-level profiling.</li>
<li>The LLVM JIT lazily initializes global variables, reducing startup time for programs with lots of globals (like C++ programs).</li> <li>The LLVM JIT lazily initializes global variables, reducing startup time for programs with lots of globals (like C++ programs).</li>
<li>The build and installation infrastructure in this release is dramatically <li>The build and installation infrastructure in this release is dramatically
@ -109,14 +109,14 @@ href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR220">install</a>" and <a
href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR203">RPM package generation</a>.</li> href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR203">RPM package generation</a>.</li>
<li>The "tblgen" tool is <a href="TableGenFundamentals.html">now documented</a>.</li> <li>The "tblgen" tool is <a href="TableGenFundamentals.html">now documented</a>.</li>
<li>The LLVM code generator got a multitude of improvements: <li>The target-independent code generator got several improvements:
<ul> <ul>
<li>It can now fold spill code into instructions on targets that support it.</li> <li>It can now fold spill code into instructions (on targets that support it).</li>
<li>A generic machine code spiller/rewriter was added. It provides an API for <li>A generic machine code spiller/rewriter was added. It provides an API for
global register allocators to eliminate virtual registers and add the global register allocators to eliminate virtual registers and add the
appropriate spill code.</li> appropriate spill code.</li>
<li>The represenation of machine basic blocks got cleaned up and improved to <li>The represenation of machine code basic blocks is more efficient and has
allow easier development and more efficient implementation.</li> an easier to use interface.</li>
</ul> </ul>
</li> </li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR253">LLVM now no longer depends on the boost library</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR253">LLVM now no longer depends on the boost library</a>.</li>
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tool. You can activate it with "<tt>llc -march=c foo.bc -o foo.c</tt>".</li> tool. You can activate it with "<tt>llc -march=c foo.bc -o foo.c</tt>".</li>
<li>LLVM includes a new interprocedural optimization that marks global variables <li>LLVM includes a new interprocedural optimization that marks global variables
"constant" when they are provably never written to.</li> "constant" when they are provably never written to.</li>
<li>LLVM now includes a new interprocedural optimization that converts small "by reference" arguments to "by value" arguments, which is often improve the performance of C++ programs substantially.</li>
</ol> </ol>