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This is a list of changes between the released versions of LuaJIT.<br>
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<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta9">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta9 — 2011-12-14</h2>
<ul>
<li>New features:
<ul>
<li>PPC port of LuaJIT is complete. Default is the dual-number port
(usually faster). Single-number port selectable via <tt>src/Makefile</tt>
at build time.</li>
<li>Add FFI callback support.</li>
<li>Extend <tt>-b</tt> to generate <tt>.c</tt>, <tt>.h</tt> or <tt>.obj/.o</tt>
files with embedded bytecode.</li>
<li>Allow loading embedded bytecode with <tt>require()</tt>.</li>
<li>From Lua 5.2: Change to <tt>'\z'</tt> escape. Reject undefined escape
sequences.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>Fix OSX 10.7 build. Fix <tt>install_name</tt> and versioning on OSX.</li>
<li>Fix iOS build.</li>
<li>Install <tt>dis_arm.lua</tt>, too.</li>
<li>Mark installed shared library as executable.</li>
<li>Add debug option to <tt>msvcbuild.bat</tt> and improve error handling.</li>
<li>Fix data-flow analysis for iterators.</li>
<li>Fix forced unwinding triggered by external unwinder.</li>
<li>Record missing <tt>for</tt> loop slot loads (return to lower frame).</li>
<li>Always use ANSI variants of Windows system functions.</li>
<li>Fix GC barrier for multi-result table constructor (<tt>TSETM</tt>).</li>
<li>Fix/add various FOLD rules.</li>
<li>Add potential PHI for number conversions due to type instability.</li>
<li>Do not eliminate PHIs only referenced from other PHIs.</li>
<li>Correctly anchor implicit number to string conversions in Lua/C API.</li>
<li>Fix various stack limit checks.</li>
<li>x64: Use thread-safe exceptions for external unwinding (GCC platforms).</li>
<li>x64: Fix result type of cdata index conversions.</li>
<li>x64: Fix <tt>math.random()</tt> and <tt>bit.bswap()</tt> code generation.</li>
<li>x64: Fix <tt>lightuserdata</tt> comparisons.</li>
<li>x64: Always extend stack-passed arguments to pointer size.</li>
<li>ARM: Many fixes to code generation backend.</li>
<li>PPC/e500: Fix dispatch for binop metamethods.</li>
<li>PPC/e500: Save/restore condition registers when entering/leaving the VM.</li>
<li>PPC/e500: Fix write barrier in stores of strings to upvalues.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>FFI library:
<ul>
<li>Fix C comment parsing.</li>
<li>Fix snapshot optimization for cdata comparisons.</li>
<li>Fix recording of const/enum lookups in namespaces.</li>
<li>Fix call argument and return handling for <tt>I8/U8/I16/U16</tt> types.</li>
<li>Fix unfused loads of float fields.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>ffi.string()</tt> recording.</li>
<li>Save <tt>GetLastError()</tt> around <tt>ffi.load()</tt> and symbol
resolving, too.</li>
<li>Improve ld script detection in <tt>ffi.load()</tt>.</li>
<li>Record loads/stores to external variables in namespaces.</li>
<li>Compile calls to stdcall, fastcall and vararg functions.</li>
<li>Treat function ctypes like pointers in comparisons.</li>
<li>Resolve <tt>__call</tt> metamethod for pointers, too.</li>
<li>Record C function calls with bool return values.</li>
<li>Record <tt>ffi.errno()</tt>.</li>
<li>x86: Fix number to <tt>uint32_t</tt> conversion rounding.</li>
<li>x86: Fix 64 bit arithmetic in assembler backend.</li>
<li>x64: Fix struct-by-value calling conventions.</li>
<li>ARM: Ensure invocation of SPLIT pass for float conversions.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Display trace types with <tt>-jv</tt> and <tt>-jdump</tt>.</li>
<li>Record isolated calls. But prefer recording loops over calls.</li>
<li>Specialize to prototype for non-monomorphic functions. Solves the
trace-explosion problem for closure-heavy programming styles.</li>
<li>Always generate a portable <tt>vmdef.lua</tt>. Easier for distros.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta8">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta8 — 2011-06-23</h2>
<ul>
<li>New features:
<ul>
<li>Soft-float ARM port of LuaJIT is complete.</li>
<li>Add support for bytecode loading/saving and <tt>-b</tt> command line
option.</li>
<li>From Lua 5.2: <tt>__len</tt> metamethod for tables
(disabled by default).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>ARM: Misc. fixes for interpreter.</li>
<li>x86/x64: Fix <tt>bit.*</tt> argument checking in interpreter.</li>
<li>Catch early out-of-memory in memory allocator initialization.</li>
<li>Fix data-flow analysis for paths leading to an upvalue close.</li>
<li>Fix check for missing arguments in <tt>string.format()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix Solaris/x86 build (note: not a supported target).</li>
<li>Fix recording of loops with instable directions in side traces.</li>
<li>x86/x64: Fix fusion of comparisons with <tt>u8</tt>/<tt>u16</tt>
<tt>XLOAD</tt>.</li>
<li>x86/x64: Fix register allocation for variable shifts.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>FFI library:
<ul>
<li>Add <tt>ffi.errno()</tt>. Save <tt>errno</tt>/<tt>GetLastError()</tt>
around allocations etc.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>__gc</tt> for VLA/VLS cdata objects.</li>
<li>Fix recording of casts from 32 bit cdata pointers to integers.</li>
<li><tt>tonumber(cdata)</tt> returns <tt>nil</tt> for non-numbers.</li>
<li>Show address pointed to for <tt>tostring(pointer)</tt>.</li>
<li>Print <tt>NULL</tt> pointers as <tt>"cdata<... *>: NULL"</tt>.</li>
<li>Support <tt>__tostring</tt> metamethod for pointers to structs, too.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>More tuning for loop unrolling heuristics.</li>
<li>Flatten and compress in-memory debug info (saves ~70%).</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta7">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta7 — 2011-05-05</h2>
<ul>
<li>New features:
<ul>
<li>ARM port of the LuaJIT interpreter is complete.</li>
<li>FFI library: Add <tt>ffi.gc()</tt>, <tt>ffi.metatype()</tt>,
<tt>ffi.istype()</tt>.</li>
<li>FFI library: Resolve ld script redirection in <tt>ffi.load()</tt>.</li>
<li>From Lua 5.2: <tt>package.searchpath()</tt>, <tt>fp:read("*L")</tt>,
<tt>load(string)</tt>.</li>
<li>From Lua 5.2, disabled by default: empty statement,
<tt>table.unpack()</tt>, modified <tt>coroutine.running()</tt>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>FFI library: numerous fixes.</li>
<li>Fix type mismatches in store-to-load forwarding.</li>
<li>Fix error handling within metamethods.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>table.maxn()</tt>.</li>
<li>Improve accuracy of <tt>x^-k</tt> on x64.</li>
<li>Fix code generation for Intel Atom in x64 mode.</li>
<li>Fix narrowing of POW.</li>
<li>Fix recording of retried fast functions.</li>
<li>Fix code generation for <tt>bit.bnot()</tt> and multiplies.</li>
<li>Fix error location within cpcall frames.</li>
<li>Add workaround for old libgcc unwind bug.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>lua_yield()</tt> and <tt>getmetatable(lightuserdata)</tt> on x64.</li>
<li>Misc. fixes for PPC/e500 interpreter.</li>
<li>Fix stack slot updates for down-recursion.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Add dual-number mode (int/double) for the VM. Enabled for ARM.</li>
<li>Improve narrowing of arithmetic operators and <tt>for</tt> loops.</li>
<li>Tune loop unrolling heuristics and increase trace recorder limits.</li>
<li>Eliminate dead slots in snapshots using bytecode data-flow analysis.</li>
<li>Avoid phantom stores to proxy tables.</li>
<li>Optimize lookups in empty proxy tables.</li>
<li>Improve bytecode optimization of <tt>and</tt>/<tt>or</tt> operators.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta6">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta6 — 2011-02-11</h2>
<ul>
<li>New features:
<ul>
<li>PowerPC/e500v2 port of the LuaJIT interpreter is complete.</li>
<li>Various minor features from Lua 5.2: Hex escapes in literals,
<tt>'\*'</tt> escape, reversible <tt>string.format("%q",s)</tt>,
<tt>"%g"</tt> pattern, <tt>table.sort</tt> checks callbacks,
<tt>os.exit(status|true|false[,close])</tt>.</li>
<li>Lua 5.2 <tt>__pairs</tt> and <tt>__ipairs</tt> metamethods
(disabled by default).</li>
<li>Initial release of the FFI library.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>Fix <tt>string.format()</tt> for non-finite numbers.</li>
<li>Fix memory leak when compiled to use the built-in allocator.</li>
<li>x86/x64: Fix unnecessary resize in <tt>TSETM</tt> bytecode.</li>
<li>Fix various GC issues with traces and <tt>jit.flush()</tt>.</li>
<li>x64: Fix fusion of indexes for array references.</li>
<li>x86/x64: Fix stack overflow handling for coroutine results.</li>
<li>Enable low-2GB memory allocation on FreeBSD/x64.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>collectgarbage("count")</tt> result if more than 2GB is in use.</li>
<li>Fix parsing of hex floats.</li>
<li>x86/x64: Fix loop branch inversion with trailing
<tt>HREF+NE/EQ</tt>.</li>
<li>Add <tt>jit.os</tt> string.</li>
<li><tt>coroutine.create()</tt> permits running C functions, too.</li>
<li>Fix OSX build to work with newer ld64 versions.</li>
<li>Fix bytecode optimization of <tt>and</tt>/<tt>or</tt> operators.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Emit specialized bytecode for <tt>pairs()</tt>/<tt>next()</tt>.</li>
<li>Improve bytecode coalescing of <tt>nil</tt> constants.</li>
<li>Compile calls to vararg functions.</li>
<li>Compile <tt>select()</tt>.</li>
<li>Improve alias analysis, esp. for loads from allocations.</li>
<li>Tuning of various compiler heuristics.</li>
<li>Refactor and extend IR conversion instructions.</li>
<li>x86/x64: Various backend enhancements related to the FFI.</li>
<li>Add SPLIT pass to split 64 bit IR instructions for 32 bit CPUs.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta5">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta5 — 2010-08-24</h2>
<ul>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>Fix trace exit dispatch to function headers.</li>
<li>Fix Windows and OSX builds with LUAJIT_DISABLE_JIT.</li>
<li>Reorganize and fix placement of generated machine code on x64.</li>
<li>Fix TNEW in x64 interpreter.</li>
<li>Do not eliminate PHIs for values only referenced from side exits.</li>
<li>OS-independent canonicalization of strings for non-finite numbers.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>string.char()</tt> range check on x64.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>tostring()</tt> resolving within <tt>print()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix error handling for <tt>next()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix passing of constant arguments to external calls on x64.</li>
<li>Fix interpreter argument check for two-argument SSE math functions.</li>
<li>Fix C frame chain corruption caused by <tt>lua_cpcall()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix return from <tt>pcall()</tt> within active hook.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Replace on-trace GC frame syncing with interpreter exit.</li>
<li>Improve hash lookup specialization by not removing dead keys during GC.</li>
<li>Turn traces into true GC objects.</li>
<li>Avoid starting a GC cycle immediately after library init.</li>
<li>Add weak guards to improve dead-code elimination.</li>
<li>Speed up string interning.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta4">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta4 — 2010-03-28</h2>
<ul>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>Fix precondition for on-trace creation of table keys.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>{f()}</tt> on x64 when table is resized.</li>
<li>Fix folding of ordered comparisons with same references.</li>
<li>Fix snapshot restores for multi-result bytecodes.</li>
<li>Fix potential hang when recording bytecode with nested closures.</li>
<li>Fix recording of <tt>getmetatable()</tt>, <tt>tonumber()</tt> and bad argument types.</li>
<li>Fix SLOAD fusion across returns to lower frames.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Add array bounds check elimination. <tt>-Oabc</tt> is enabled by default.</li>
<li>More tuning for x64, e.g. smaller table objects.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta3">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta3 — 2010-03-07</h2>
<ul>
<li>LuaJIT x64 port:
<ul>
<li>Port integrated memory allocator to Linux/x64, Windows/x64 and OSX/x64.</li>
<li>Port interpreter and JIT compiler to x64.</li>
<li>Port DynASM to x64.</li>
<li>Many 32/64 bit cleanups in the VM.</li>
<li>Allow building the interpreter with either x87 or SSE2 arithmetics.</li>
<li>Add external unwinding and C++ exception interop (default on x64).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Correctness and completeness:
<ul>
<li>Fix constructor bytecode generation for certain conditional values.</li>
<li>Fix some cases of ordered string comparisons.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>lua_tocfunction()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix cutoff register in JMP bytecode for some conditional expressions.</li>
<li>Fix PHI marking algorithm for references from variant slots.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>package.cpath</tt> for non-default PREFIX.</li>
<li>Fix DWARF2 frame unwind information for interpreter on OSX.</li>
<li>Drive the GC forward on string allocations in the parser.</li>
<li>Implement call/return hooks (zero-cost if disabled).</li>
<li>Implement yield from C hooks.</li>
<li>Disable JIT compiler on older non-SSE2 CPUs instead of aborting.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Structural and performance enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Compile recursive code (tail-, up- and down-recursion).</li>
<li>Improve heuristics for bytecode penalties and blacklisting.</li>
<li>Split CALL/FUNC recording and clean up fast function call semantics.</li>
<li>Major redesign of internal function call handling.</li>
<li>Improve FOR loop const specialization and integerness checks.</li>
<li>Switch to pre-initialized stacks. Avoid frame-clearing.</li>
<li>Colocation of prototypes and related data: bytecode, constants, debug info.</li>
<li>Cleanup parser and streamline bytecode generation.</li>
<li>Add support for weak IR references to register allocator.</li>
<li>Switch to compressed, extensible snapshots.</li>
<li>Compile returns to frames below the start frame.</li>
<li>Improve alias analysis of upvalues using a disambiguation hash value.</li>
<li>Compile floor/ceil/trunc to SSE2 helper calls or SSE4.1 instructions.</li>
<li>Add generic C call handling to IR and backend.</li>
<li>Improve KNUM fuse vs. load heuristics.</li>
<li>Compile various <tt>io.*()</tt> functions.</li>
<li>Compile <tt>math.sinh()</tt>, <tt>math.cosh()</tt>, <tt>math.tanh()</tt>
and <tt>math.random()</tt>.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta2">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta2 — 2009-11-09</h2>
<ul>
<li>Reorganize build system. Build static+shared library on POSIX.</li>
<li>Allow C++ exception conversion on all platforms
using a wrapper function.</li>
<li>Automatically catch C++ exceptions and rethrow Lua error
(DWARF2 only).</li>
<li>Check for the correct x87 FPU precision at strategic points.</li>
<li>Always use wrappers for libm functions.</li>
<li>Resurrect metamethod name strings before copying them.</li>
<li>Mark current trace, even if compiler is idle.</li>
<li>Ensure FILE metatable is created only once.</li>
<li>Fix type comparisons when different integer types are involved.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>getmetatable()</tt> recording.</li>
<li>Fix TDUP with dead keys in template table.</li>
<li><tt>jit.flush(tr)</tt> returns status.
Prevent manual flush of a trace that's still linked.</li>
<li>Improve register allocation heuristics for invariant references.</li>
<li>Compile the push/pop variants of <tt>table.insert()</tt> and
<tt>table.remove()</tt>.</li>
<li>Compatibility with MSVC <tt>link /debug</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>lua_iscfunction()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix <tt>math.random()</tt> when compiled with <tt>-fpic</tt> (OSX).</li>
<li>Fix <tt>table.maxn()</tt>.</li>
<li>Bump <tt>MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET</tt> to <tt>10.4</tt></li>
<li><tt>luaL_check*()</tt> and <tt>luaL_opt*()</tt> now support
negative arguments, too.<br>
This matches the behavior of Lua 5.1, but not the specification.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1">LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta1 — 2009-10-31</h2>
<ul>
<li>This is the first public release of LuaJIT 2.0.</li>
<li>The whole VM has been rewritten from the ground up, so there's
no point in listing differences over earlier versions.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="major" style="background: #d0d0ff;">
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.7">LuaJIT 1.1.7 — 2011-05-05</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added fixes for the
<a href="http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.4"><span class="ext">»</span> currently known bugs in Lua 5.1.4</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.6">LuaJIT 1.1.6 — 2010-03-28</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added fixes for the
<a href="http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.4"><span class="ext">»</span> currently known bugs in Lua 5.1.4</a>.</li>
<li>Removed wrong GC check in <tt>jit_createstate()</tt>.
Thanks to Tim Mensch.</li>
<li>Fixed bad assertions while compiling <tt>table.insert()</tt> and
<tt>table.remove()</tt>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.5">LuaJIT 1.1.5 — 2008-10-25</h2>
<ul>
<li>Merged with Lua 5.1.4. Fixes all
<a href="http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.3"><span class="ext">»</span> known bugs in Lua 5.1.3</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.4">LuaJIT 1.1.4 — 2008-02-05</h2>
<ul>
<li>Merged with Lua 5.1.3. Fixes all
<a href="http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.2"><span class="ext">»</span> known bugs in Lua 5.1.2</a>.</li>
<li>Fixed possible (but unlikely) stack corruption while compiling
<tt>k^x</tt> expressions.</li>
<li>Fixed DynASM template for cmpss instruction.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.3">LuaJIT 1.1.3 — 2007-05-24</h2>
<ul>
<li>Merged with Lua 5.1.2. Fixes all
<a href="http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1.1"><span class="ext">»</span> known bugs in Lua 5.1.1</a>.</li>
<li>Merged pending Lua 5.1.x fixes: "return -nil" bug, spurious count hook call.</li>
<li>Remove a (sometimes) wrong assertion in <tt>luaJIT_findpc()</tt>.</li>
<li>DynASM now allows labels for displacements and <tt>.aword</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix some compiler warnings for DynASM glue (internal API change).</li>
<li>Correct naming for SSSE3 (temporarily known as SSE4) in DynASM and x86 disassembler.</li>
<li>The loadable debug modules now handle redirection to stdout
(e.g. <tt>-j trace=-</tt>).</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.2">LuaJIT 1.1.2 — 2006-06-24</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fix MSVC inline assembly: use only local variables with
<tt>lua_number2int()</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix "attempt to call a thread value" bug on Mac OS X:
make values of consts used as lightuserdata keys unique
to avoid joining by the compiler/linker.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.1">LuaJIT 1.1.1 — 2006-06-20</h2>
<ul>
<li>Merged with Lua 5.1.1. Fixes all
<a href="http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.1"><span class="ext">»</span> known bugs in Lua 5.1</a>.</li>
<li>Enforce (dynamic) linker error for EXE/DLL version mismatches.</li>
<li>Minor changes to DynASM: faster pre-processing, smaller encoding
for some immediates.</li>
</ul>
<p>
This release is in sync with Coco 1.1.1 (see the
<a href="http://coco.luajit.org/changes.html"><span class="ext">»</span> Coco Change History</a>).
</p>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.1.0">LuaJIT 1.1.0 — 2006-03-13</h2>
<ul>
<li>Merged with Lua 5.1 (final).</li>
<li>New JIT call frame setup:
<ul>
<li>The C stack is kept 16 byte aligned (faster).
Mandatory for Mac OS X on Intel, too.</li>
<li>Faster calling conventions for internal C helper functions.</li>
<li>Better instruction scheduling for function prologue, OP_CALL and
OP_RETURN.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Miscellaneous optimizations:
<ul>
<li>Faster loads of FP constants. Remove narrow-to-wide store-to-load
forwarding stalls.</li>
<li>Use (scalar) SSE2 ops (if the CPU supports it) to speed up slot moves
and FP to integer conversions.</li>
<li>Optimized the two-argument form of <tt>OP_CONCAT</tt> (<tt>a..b</tt>).</li>
<li>Inlined <tt>OP_MOD</tt> (<tt>a%b</tt>).
With better accuracy than the C variant, too.</li>
<li>Inlined <tt>OP_POW</tt> (<tt>a^b</tt>). Unroll <tt>x^k</tt> or
use <tt>k^x = 2^(log2(k)*x)</tt> or call <tt>pow()</tt>.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Changes in the optimizer:
<ul>
<li>Improved hinting for table keys derived from table values
(<tt>t1[t2[x]]</tt>).</li>
<li>Lookup hinting now works with arbitrary object types and
supports index chains, too.</li>
<li>Generate type hints for arithmetic and comparison operators,
OP_LEN, OP_CONCAT and OP_FORPREP.</li>
<li>Remove several hint definitions in favour of a generic COMBINE hint.</li>
<li>Complete rewrite of <tt>jit.opt_inline</tt> module
(ex <tt>jit.opt_lib</tt>).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Use adaptive deoptimization:
<ul>
<li>If runtime verification of a contract fails, the affected
instruction is recompiled and patched on-the-fly.
Regular programs will trigger deoptimization only occasionally.</li>
<li>This avoids generating code for uncommon fallback cases
most of the time. Generated code is up to 30% smaller compared to
LuaJIT 1.0.3.</li>
<li>Deoptimization is used for many opcodes and contracts:
<ul>
<li>OP_CALL, OP_TAILCALL: type mismatch for callable.</li>
<li>Inlined calls: closure mismatch, parameter number and type mismatches.</li>
<li>OP_GETTABLE, OP_SETTABLE: table or key type and range mismatches.</li>
<li>All arithmetic and comparison operators, OP_LEN, OP_CONCAT,
OP_FORPREP: operand type and range mismatches.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Complete redesign of the debug and traceback info
(bytecode ↔ mcode) to support deoptimization.
Much more flexible and needs only 50% of the space.</li>
<li>The modules <tt>jit.trace</tt>, <tt>jit.dumphints</tt> and
<tt>jit.dump</tt> handle deoptimization.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Inlined many popular library functions
(for commonly used arguments only):
<ul>
<li>Most <tt>math.*</tt> functions (the 18 most used ones)
[2x-10x faster].</li>
<li><tt>string.len</tt>, <tt>string.sub</tt> and <tt>string.char</tt>
[2x-10x faster].</li>
<li><tt>table.insert</tt>, <tt>table.remove</tt> and <tt>table.getn</tt>
[3x-5x faster].</li>
<li><tt>coroutine.yield</tt> and <tt>coroutine.resume</tt>
[3x-5x faster].</li>
<li><tt>pairs</tt>, <tt>ipairs</tt> and the corresponding iterators
[8x-15x faster].</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Changes in the core and loadable modules and the stand-alone executable:
<ul>
<li>Added <tt>jit.version</tt>, <tt>jit.version_num</tt>
and <tt>jit.arch</tt>.</li>
<li>Reorganized some internal API functions (<tt>jit.util.*mcode*</tt>).</li>
<li>The <tt>-j dump</tt> output now shows JSUB names, too.</li>
<li>New x86 disassembler module written in pure Lua. No dependency
on ndisasm anymore. Flexible API, very compact (500 lines)
and complete (x87, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, privileged instructions).</li>
<li><tt>luajit -v</tt> prints the LuaJIT version and copyright
on a separate line.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Added SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3 support to DynASM.</li>
<li>Miscellaneous doc changes. Added a section about
<a href="install.html#embedding">embedding LuaJIT</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>
This release is in sync with Coco 1.1.0 (see the
<a href="http://coco.luajit.org/changes.html"><span class="ext">»</span> Coco Change History</a>).
</p>
</div>
<div class="major" style="background: #ffffd0;">
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.0.3">LuaJIT 1.0.3 — 2005-09-08</h2>
<ul>
<li>Even more docs.</li>
<li>Unified closure checks in <tt>jit.*</tt>.</li>
<li>Fixed some range checks in <tt>jit.util.*</tt>.</li>
<li>Fixed __newindex call originating from <tt>jit_settable_str()</tt>.</li>
<li>Merged with Lua 5.1 alpha (including early bug fixes).</li>
</ul>
<p>
This is the first public release of LuaJIT.
</p>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.0.2">LuaJIT 1.0.2 — 2005-09-02</h2>
<ul>
<li>Add support for flushing the Valgrind translation cache <br>
(<tt>MYCFLAGS= -DUSE_VALGRIND</tt>).</li>
<li>Add support for freeing executable mcode memory to the <tt>mmap()</tt>-based
variant for POSIX systems.</li>
<li>Reorganized the C function signature handling in
<tt>jit.opt_lib</tt>.</li>
<li>Changed to index-based hints for inlining C functions.
Still no support in the backend for inlining.</li>
<li>Hardcode <tt>HEAP_CREATE_ENABLE_EXECUTE</tt> value if undefined.</li>
<li>Misc. changes to the <tt>jit.*</tt> modules.</li>
<li>Misc. changes to the Makefiles.</li>
<li>Lots of new docs.</li>
<li>Complete doc reorg.</li>
</ul>
<p>
Not released because Lua 5.1 alpha came out today.
</p>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.0.1">LuaJIT 1.0.1 — 2005-08-31</h2>
<ul>
<li>Missing GC step in <tt>OP_CONCAT</tt>.</li>
<li>Fix result handling for C –> JIT calls.</li>
<li>Detect CPU feature bits.</li>
<li>Encode conditional moves (<tt>fucomip</tt>) only when supported.</li>
<li>Add fallback instructions for FP compares.</li>
<li>Add support for <tt>LUA_COMPAT_VARARG</tt>. Still disabled by default.</li>
<li>MSVC needs a specific place for the <tt>CALLBACK</tt> attribute
(David Burgess).</li>
<li>Misc. doc updates.</li>
</ul>
<p>
Interim non-public release.
Special thanks to Adam D. Moss for reporting most of the bugs.
</p>
<h2 id="LuaJIT-1.0.0">LuaJIT 1.0.0 — 2005-08-29</h2>
<p>
This is the initial non-public release of LuaJIT.
</p>
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