gperftools/ChangeLog

Tue Feb 12 12:28:32 2008  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.95 release
	* Better -- not perfect -- support for linux-ppc (csilvers)
	* Fix race condition in libunwind stacktrace (aruns)
	* Speed up x86 spinlock locking (m3b)
	* Improve heap-checker performance (maxim)
	* Heap checker traverses more ptrs inside heap-alloced objects (maxim)
	* Remove deprecated ProfilerThreadState function (cgd)
	* Update libunwind documentation for statically linked binaries (aruns)

Mon Dec  3 23:51:54 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.94.1 release  (bugfix release)
	* Fix missing #includes for x86_64 compile using libunwind (csilvers)

Thu Nov 29 07:59:43 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.94 release
	* PORTING: MinGW/Msys support -- runs same code as MSVC does (csilvers)
	* PORTING: Add NumCPUs support for Mac OS X (csilvers)
	* Work around a sscanf bug in glibc(?) (waldemar)
	* Fix Windows MSVC bug triggered by thread deletion (csilvers)
	* Fix bug that triggers in MSVC /O2: missing volatile (gpike)
	* March-of-time support: quiet warnings/errors for gcc 4.2, OS X 10.5
	* Modify pprof so it works without nm: useful for windows (csilvers)
	* pprof: Support filtering for CPU profiles (cgd)
	* Bugfix: have realloc report to hooks in all situations (maxim)
	* Speed improvement: replace slow memcpy with std::copy (soren)
	* Speed: better iterator efficiency in RecordRegionRemoval (soren)
	* Speed: minor speed improvements via better bitfield alignment (gpike)
	* Documentation: add documentation of binary profile output (cgd)
	
Fri Aug 17 12:32:56 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.93 release
	* PORTING: everything compiles on Solaris, OS X, FreeBSD (see INSTALL)
	* PORTING: cpu-profiler works on most platforms (much better GetPC())
	* PORTING: heap-profiler works on most platforms
	* PORTING: improved windows support, including release builds
	* No longer build or run ptmalloc tests by default
	* Add support for using memfs filesystem to allocate memory in linux
	* WINDOWS: give debug library and release library different names
	
Tue Jul 17 22:26:27 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.92 release
	* PERFORMANCE: use a packed cache to speed up tcmalloc
	* PORTING: preliminary windows support! (see README.windows)
	* PORTING: better support for solaris, OS X, FreeBSD (see INSTALL)
	* Envvar support for running the heap-checker under gdb
	* Add weak declarations to maybe_threads to fix no-pthreads compile bugs
	* Some 64bit fixes, especially with pprof
	* Better heap-checker support for some low-level allocations
	* Fix bug where heap-profiles would sometimes get truncated
	* New documentation about how to handle common heap leak situations
	* Use computed includes for hash_map/set: easier config
	* Added all used .m4 templates to the distribution

Wed Apr 18 16:43:55 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.91 release
	* Brown-paper-bag bugfix: compilation error on some x86-64 machines

Fri Apr 13 14:50:51 2007  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.90 release
	* (As the version-number jump hints, this is a major new release:
	  almost every piece of functionality was rewritten.  I can't do
	  justice to all the changes, but will concentrate on highlights.)
	*** USER-VISIBLE CHANGES:
	* Ability to "release" unused memory added to tcmalloc
	* Exposed more tweaking knobs via environment variables (see docs)
	* pprof tries harder to map addresses to functions
	* tcmalloc_minimal compiles and runs on FreeBSD 6.0 and Solaris 10
	*** INTERNAL CHANGES:
	* Much better 64-bit support
	* Better multiple-processor support (e.g. multicore contention tweaks)
	* Support for recent kernel ABI changes (e.g. new arg to mremap)
	* Addition of spinlocks to tcmalloc to reduce contention cost
	* Speed up tcmalloc by using __thread on systems that support TLS
	* Total redesign of heap-checker to improve liveness checking
	* More portable stack-frame analysis -- no more hard-coded constants!
	* Disentangled heap-profiler code and heap-checker code
	* Several new unittests to test, e.g., thread-contention costs
	* Lots of small (but important!) bug fixes: e.g., fixing GetPC on amd64
	*** KNOWN PROBLEMS:
	* CPU-profiling may crash on x86_64 (64-bit) systems.  See the README
	* Profiling/heap-checking may deadlock on x86_64 systems.  See README

Wed Jun 14 15:11:14 2006  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.8 release
	* Experimental support for remote profiling added to pprof (many)
	* Fixed race condition in ProfileData::FlushTable (etune)
	* Better support for weird /proc maps (maxim, mec)
	* Fix heap-checker interaction with gdb (markus)
	* Better 64-bit support in pprof (aruns)
	* Reduce scavenging cost in tcmalloc by capping NumMoveSize (sanjay)
	* Cast syscall(SYS_mmap); works on more 64-bit systems now (menage)
	* Document the text output of pprof! (csilvers)
	* Better compiler support for no-THREADS and for old compilers (csilvers)
	* Make libunwind the default stack unwinder for x86-64 (aruns)
	* Somehow the COPYING file got erased.  Regenerate it (csilvers)

Thu Apr 13 20:59:09 2006  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.7 release
	* Major rewrite of thread introspection for new kernels (markus)
	* Major rewrite of heap-checker to use new thread tools (maxim)
	* Add proper support for following data in thread registers (maxim)
	* Syscall support for older kernels, including _syscall6 (markus)
	* Support PIC mode (markus, mbland, iant)
	* Better support for running in non-threaded contexts (csilvers)

Fri Jan 27 14:04:27 2006  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.6 release
	* More sophisticated stacktrace usage, possibly using libunwind (aruns)
	* Update pprof to handle 64-bit profiles (dehnert)
	* Fix GetStackTrace to correctly return top stackframe (sanjay)
	* Add ANSI compliance for new and new[], including new_handler (jkearney)
	* More accuracy by reading ELF files directly rather than objdump (mec)
	* Add readline support for pprof (addi)
	* Add #includes for PPC (csilvers)
	* New PC-detection routine for ibook powerpc (asbestoshead)
	* Vastly improved tcmalloc unittest (csilvers)
	* Move documentation from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc

Mon Nov 14 17:28:59 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.5 release
	* Add va_start/va_end calls around vsnprintf() (csilvers)
	* Write our own __syscall_return(), since it's not defined
	  consistently on all 64-bit linux distros (markus)

Wed Oct 26 15:19:16 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.4 release
	* Decrease fragmentation in tcmalloc (lefevere)
	* Support for ARM in some of the thread-specific code (markus)
	* Turn off heap-checker for statically-linked binaries, which
	  cause error leak reports now (etune)
	* Many pprof improvements, including a command-line interface (jeff)
	* CPU profiling now automatically affects all threads in linux 2.6.
	  (Kernel bugs break CPU profiling and threads in linux 2.4 a bit.)
	  ProfilerEnable() and ProfilerDisable() are deprecated.  (sanjay)
	* tcmalloc now correctly intercepts memalign (m3b, maxim)
	* Syntax fix: added missing va_end()s.  Helps non-gcc compiling (etune)
	* Fixed a few coredumper bugs: race condition after PTRACE_DETACH,
	  ignore non-aligned stackframe pointers (markus, menage)
	* 64-bit cleanup, especially for spinlock code (etune) and mmap (sanjay)
	* Better support for finding threads in linux (markus)
	* tcmalloc now tracks those stack traces that allocate memory (sanjay)
	* Work around a weird setspecific problem (sanjay)
	* Fix tcmalloc overflow problems when an alloc is close to 2G/4G (sanjay)

Fri Jun 24 18:02:26 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.3 release
	* Add missing errno include for one of the unittests (csilvers)
	* Reduce tcmalloc startup memory from 5M to 256K (sanjay)
	* Add support for mallopt() and mallinfo (sanjay)
	* Improve stacktrace's performance on some 64-bit systems (etune)
	* Improve the stacktrace unittest (etune)

Tue May 31 08:14:38 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: version 0.2 release
	* Use mmap2() instead of mmap(), to map more memory (menage)
	* Do correct pthread-local checking in heap-checker! (maxim)
	* Avoid overflow on 64-bit machines in pprof (sanjay)
	* Add a few more GetPC() functions, including for AMD (csilvers)
	* Better method for overriding pthread functions (menage)
	* (Hacky) fix to avoid overwriting profile files after fork() (csilvers)
	* Crashing bugfix involving dumping heaps on small-stack threads (tudor)
	* Allow library versions with letters at the end (csilvers)
	* Config fixes for systems that don't define PATH_MAX (csilvers)
	* Confix fixes so we no longer need config.h after install (csilvers)
	* Fix to pprof to correctly read very big cpu profiles (csilvers)
	* Fix to pprof to deal with new commandline flags in modern gv's
	* Better error reporting when we can't access /proc/maps (etune)
	* Get rid of the libc-preallocate code (which could crash on some
	  systems); no longer needed with local-threads fix (csilvers)

Tue Feb 8 09:57:17 2005  Google Inc. <opensource@google.com>

	* google-perftools: initial release:
	  The google-perftools package contains some utilities to improve
	  and analyze the performance of C++ programs.  This includes an
	  optimized thread-caching malloc() and cpu and heap profiling
	  utilities.