The main benefit for perftools is that google spinlocks allow for
link-time (static) initialization, which we had to simulate before,
yielding bugs and worse performance.
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* google-perftools: version 1.1 release
* Dynamically resize thread caches -- nice perf. improvement (kash)
* Add VDSO support to give better stacktraces in linux (ppluzhnikov)
* Improve heap-profiling sampling algorithm (ford)
* Rewrite leak-checking code: should be faster and more robust (sanjay)
* Use ps2 instead of ps for dot: better page cropping for gv (csilvers)
* Disable malloc-failure warning messages by default (csilvers)
* Update config/Makefile to disable tests on a per-OS basis (csilvers)
* PORTING: Get perftools compiling under MSVC 7.1 again (csilvers)
* PORTING: Get perftools compiling under cygwin again (csilvers)
* PORTING: automatically set library flags for solaris x86 (csilvers)
* Add TCMALLOC_SKIP_SBRK to mirror TCMALLOC_SKIP_MMAP (csilvers)
* Add --enable flags to allow selective building (csilvers)
* Put addr2line-pdb and nm-pdb in proper output directory (csilvers)
* Remove deprecated DisableChecksIn (sanjay)
* DOCUMENTATION: Document most MallocExtension routines (csilvers)
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* google-perftools: version 1.0rc1 release
* Replace API for selectively disabling heap-checker in code (sanjay)
* Add a pre-mmap hook (daven, adlr)
* Add MallocExtension interface to set memory-releasing rate (fikes)
* Augment pprof to allow any string ending in /pprof/profile (csilvers)
* PORTING: Rewrite -- and fix -- malloc patching for windows (dvitek)
* PORTING: Add nm-pdb and addr2line-pdb for use by pprof (dvitek)
* PORTING: Improve cygwin and mingw support (jperkins, csilvers)
* PORTING: Fix pprof for mac os x, other pprof improvements (csilvers)
* PORTING: Fix some PPC bugs in our locking code (anton.blanchard)
* A new unittest, smapling_test, to verify tcmalloc-profiles (csilvers)
* Turn off TLS for gcc < 4.1.2, due to a TLS + -fPIC bug (csilvers)
* Prefer __builtin_frame_address to assembly for stacktraces (nlewycky)
* Separate tcmalloc.cc out into multiple files -- finally! (kash)
* Make our locking code work with -fPIC on 32-bit x86 (aruns)
* Fix an initialization-ordering bug for tcmalloc/profiling (csilvers)
* Use "initial exec" model of TLS to speed up tcmalloc (csilvers)
* Enforce 16-byte alignment for tcmalloc, for SSE (sanjay)
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* google-perftools: version 0.98 release
* Add ProfilerStartWithOptions() (cgd)
* Change tcmalloc_minimal to not do any stack-tracing at all (csilvers)
* Prefer mmap to sbrk for 64-buit debug mode (sanjay)
* Fix accounting for some tcmalloc stats (sanjay)
* Use setrlimit() to keep unittests from killing the machine (odo)
* Fix a bug when sbrk-ing near address 4G (csilvers)
* Make MallocHook thread-safe (jyasskin)
* Fix windows build for MemoryBarrier (jyasskin)
* Fix CPU-profiler docs to mention correct libs (csilvers)
* Fix for GetHeapProfile() when heap-profiling is off (maxim)
* Avoid realloc resizing ping-pongs using hysteresis (csilvers)
* Add --callgrind output support to pprof (klimek)
* Fix profiler.h and heap-profiler.h to be C-compatible (csilvers)
* Break malloc_hook.h into two parts to reduce dependencies (csilvers)
* Better handle systems that don't implement mmap (csilvers)
* PORTING: disable system_alloc_unittest for msvc (csilvers)
* PORTING: Makefile tweaks to build better on cygwin (csilvers)
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* google-perftools: version 0.96 release
* major atomicops rewrite; fixed atomic ops code for linux/ppc (vchen)
* nix the stacktrace library; now build structure is simpler (csilvers)
* Speed up heap-checker, and reduce extraneous logging (maxim)
* Improve itimer code for NPTL case (cgd)
* Add source code annotations for use by valgrind, etc (kcc)
* PORTING: Fix high resolution timers for Mac OS X (adlr)
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* 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>
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* 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
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