Jikes RVM version 3.0.1 has been released and is available for download at _http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jikesrvm/jikesrvm-3.0.1.tar.bz2_ <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/jikesrvm/jikesrvm-3.0.1.tar.bz2> The detailed release notes for major changes since 3.0.0 can be found below or in JIRA (_http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM/fixforversion/14378_ <http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM/fixforversion/14378>). ** New Feature * [RVM-507] - Initial prototype of TuningFork trace generation in Jikes RVM * [RVM-515] - Make boot image writer traversal of object graph configurable * [RVM-517] - Reflection optimization * [RVM-528] - Support for eclipse-project with Harmony class libraries * [RVM-634] - Add RuntimePure annotation to indicate when a Pure annotation should only be respected at runtime * [RVM-673] - Implement Inline.When.AssertionsDisabled pragma ** Improvement * [RVM-291] - Immortal objects with address based hashing should set their hashed bit during boot image writing * [RVM-443] - Avoid back references in java.lang.reflect VMXXX classes * [RVM-476] - Make lock allocation thread-model-agnostic. * [RVM-627] - Use java.nio for writing boot image * [RVM-632] - Space improvements of RVMClass.objectCache * [RVM-633] - Avoid the use of Reflection to invoke Object.finalize() * [RVM-644] - Reduce copying of char[] in java.lang.reflect.Proxy * [RVM-650] - Ask users to submit bug reports on Jikes RVM crashes ** Bug * [RVM-172] - Failing DaCapo benchmarks on PPC 32 OS X * [RVM-288] - Assertion failure in inline oracle * [RVM-318] - java.util.Scanner is unimplemented * [RVM-346] - SPECjvm98: Invalid runs should not be SUCCESSes * [RVM-410] - Problem with changes to stack walk * [RVM-440] - Poisoned tests failing in finalizer thread * [RVM-471] - Stack frame alignment broken for Intel on OS/X * [RVM-605] - Possible fix for FreeListPageResource.releasePages() * [RVM-606] - Problems with OSR guarded inlining of invokeinterface * [RVM-614] - BaseBasePoisoned build segfaults during VM bootup on pcc64-linux * [RVM-617] - DaCapo bloat fails with Apache Harmony class library * [RVM-619] - DaCapo eclipse fails with Apache Harmony class library * [RVM-621] - DaCapo xalan fails with Apache Harmony class library * [RVM-623] - Intel 16bit operations with immediate operands in some cases generate 32bit immediate operands rather than 16bit * [RVM-631] - Bug in new Finalization code * [RVM-636] - Crash in reflection during JSR-166 TCK * [RVM-643] - Invalid InstructionFormat usage in Simplifier, but real bug is that IR is semantically malformed * [RVM-645] - Bug in LiveAnalysis related to modeling of dataflow through Exception edges in the FCFG * [RVM-646] - Immix defrag broken * [RVM-652] - build failure on IA32 OS X 10.5 (Leopard) ** Tasks and Sub-task * [RVM-651] - Add support to Intel assembler for REX prefix byte * [RVM-667] - Modify the implementation of table switch * [RVM-669] - Build/boot image runner support for x86 64 * [RVM-671] - Fix spill location size estimates
