From 682ff7da1205398376ee725b4ce3219c107b3f8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: csilvers Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 20:36:47 +0000 Subject: Thu Aug 5 12:48:03 PDT 2010 * google-perftools: version 1.6 release * Add tc_malloc_usable_size for compatibility with glibc (csilvers) * Override malloc_usable_size with tc_malloc_usable_size (csilvers) * Default to no automatic heap sampling in tcmalloc (csilvers) * Add -DTCMALLOC_LARGE_PAGES, a possibly faster tcmalloc (rus) * Make some functions extern "C" to avoid false ODR warnings (jyasskin) * pprof: Add SVG-based output (rsc) * pprof: Extend pprof --tools to allow per-tool configs (csilvers) * pprof: Improve support of 64-bit and big-endian profiles (csilvers) * pprof: Add interactive callgrind suport (weidenri...) * pprof: Improve address->function mapping a bit (dpeng) * Better detection of when we're running under valgrind (csilvers) * Better CPU-speed detection under valgrind (saito) * Use, and recommend, -fno-builtin-malloc when compiling (csilvers) * Avoid false-sharing of memory between caches (bmaurer) * BUGFIX: Fix heap sampling to use correct alloc size (bmauer) * BUGFIX: Avoid gcc 4.0.x bug by making hook-clearing atomic (csilvers) * BUGFIX: Avoid gcc 4.5.x optimization bug (csilvers) * BUGFIX: Work around deps-determining bug in libtool 1.5.26 (csilvers) * BUGFIX: Fixed test to use HAVE_PTHREAD, not HAVE_PTHREADS (csilvers) * BUGFIX: Fix tls callback behavior on windows when using wpo (wtc) * BUGFIX: properly align allocation sizes on Windows (antonm) * BUGFIX: Fix prototypes for tcmalloc/debugalloc wrt throw() (csilvers) * DOC: Updated heap-checker doc to match reality better (fischman) * DOC: Document ProfilerFlush, ProfilerStartWithOptions (csilvers) * DOC: Update docs for heap-profiler functions (csilvers) * DOC: Clean up documentation around tcmalloc.slack_bytes (fikes) * DOC: Renamed README.windows to README_windows.txt (csilvers) * DOC: Update the NEWS file to be non-empty (csilvers) * PORTING: Fix windows addr2line and nm with proper rc code (csilvers) * PORTING: Add CycleClock and atomicops support for arm 5 (sanek) * PORTING: Improve PC finding on cygwin and redhat 7 (csilvers) * PORTING: speed up function-patching under windows (csilvers) git-svn-id: http://gperftools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@97 6b5cf1ce-ec42-a296-1ba9-69fdba395a50 --- NEWS | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 064bd4b..b868bf2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,31 @@ +=== 5 August 2010 === + +I've just released perftools 1.6 + +This version also has a large number of minor changes, including +support for `malloc_usable_size()` as a glibc-compatible alias to +`malloc_size()`, the addition of SVG-based output to `pprof`, and +experimental support for tcmalloc large pages, which may speed up +tcmalloc at the cost of greater memory use. To use tcmalloc large +pages, see the +[http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn/tags/perftools-1.5/INSTALL +INSTALL file]; for all changes, see the +[http://google-perftools.googlecode.com/svn/tags/perftools-1.5/ChangeLog +ChangeLog]. + +OS X NOTE: improvements in the profiler unittest have turned up an OS +X issue: in multithreaded programs, it seems that OS X often delivers +the profiling signal (from sigitimer()) to the main thread, even when +it's sleeping, rather than spawned threads that are doing actual work. +If anyone knows details of how OS X handles SIGPROF events (from +setitimer) in threaded programs, and has insight into this problem, +please send mail to google-perftools@googlegroups.com. + +To see if you're affected by this, look for profiling time that pprof +attributes to ___semwait_signal. This is work being done in other +threads, that is being attributed to sleeping-time in the main thread. + + === 20 January 2010 === I've just released perftools 1.5 -- cgit v1.2.1