Rubinius Changelog

What's new in Rubinius 1.2.4

• Closed Issues:
• 47c3b17 Move prototypes to util to mitigate nokogiri bug. Fixes #1061
• 45e0601 Add HAVE_ macros for blocking region stuff. Fixes #977
• f6567b8 Don’t use Kernel#sleep to know how much time has past. Fixes #986
• ee2bdc2 Make sure that a local addrinfo side is found. Fixes #989
• 3fa02ec Fix CompiledMethod#locate_line. Fixes #1040
• f6ac3c8 Include stdint.h where it’s needed. Fixes #1036
• ecadf56 Fix []= with splats and all that jazz. Fixes #1021
• 57b1181 Fix Method#parameters for non-CompiledMethods. Fixes #925
• 6e3be13 Fix Thread.new, .start, and .fork. Fixes #945
• 5637a52 Guard all NME operations that need an NMF. Fixes #935
• aeced68 Add rb_check_to_integer, Fixes #933
• 38a5f97 Add support for -s on the cli. Fixes #879
• 52532b0 Don’t count a space leader request against the total width. Fixes #893
• bef7f50 Handle certain operator symbol values specially. Fixes #895
• 06da168 Handle STDIN being closed by default. Fixes #916
• a81a80d Only check frozen if there is modification in Array#delete. Fixes #913
• 75a1817 Create a specific Time subclass. Fixes #902
• 675e9ca Provide size for converting byte_array into string. Fixes #887
• 6a5cd94 Handle reopening a module that was included into Object. Fixes #883
• 185efbf Fix Object.const_defined? wrt include modules. Fixes #865
• cf9aea7 Exclude singleton classes from OS.each_object. Fixes #867
• 7c0371e Set -P option to compiler to print the AST. Fixes #861
• dba9314 Handle detect the ip for a line better. Fixes #719
• 06c3412 in Array#==, use the raw Tuples. Fixes #822
• 3973f6d Move Module#constants/constants_table => constant_table. Fixes #735
• 02330f0 Use an offensive copy in Array#permutation. Fixes #775
• c401af1 Add Rubinius.current_file. Fixes #841
• 944a6d1 Fix build on FreeBSD - Fixes #844
• 9c72fba Conditional SSLv2 usage. Fixes #818
• f079e72 Handle Marshal’ing a Mutex and Channel better. Fixes #821
• 9f3d790 Add rb_cMethod. Fixes #816
• f1c6d65 Remove duplicate local names from #local_variables. Fixes #772
• 9693227 Don’t screw with vcall new. Fixes #777
• e70c097 Disable fibers on >= 10.7. Fixes #815
• 29e5f49 Apply StringScanner speedup patch. Fixes #716
• 0640ece Apply patch for todo. Fixes #810
• 087ae79 Handle the GIL around FFI callbacks. Fixes #796
• d3026d6 Read the static scope for an inlined block properly. Fixes #807
• c2992f9 Also install tooling extensions. Fixes #806
• 26b1398 assume RWX memory is available for ffi on linux (jit requirement); selinux users: setsebool allow_execmem true. Fixes #782
• 115c1a0 improve performance of Time#. Fixes #785
• cf71b7d correct BigDecimal::ROUND_HALF_DOWN/ROUND_HALF_EVEN behavior. Fixes #781
• d962458 Ignore requests to set DATA unless in the main script. Fixes #790
• b653999 Marshal.load raises ArgumentError on unknown class/modules (Fixes #791)
• 2675eb8 Make sure that String::c_str() unshares before clamping. Fixes #793
• 596adbb rb_ary_reverse reverses in-place (Fixes #792)
• 44b68fc Added testrb bin from MRI. Fixes #788
• bd3deed Put IRB help in the right place. Fixes #783
• f4210b9 Fix tested braces in Dir.glob (@meadow). Fixes #778
• Documentation:
• New blog post: rubinius around the world map and pins of shirts/tshirts
• New blog post: rubinius summit hollywood edition june twenty oh elleven
• Added AST docs
• Add German translation of GC docs
• Updated spanish translation to the How-To Write Documentation page
• Translated debugger and memory analysis to Polish
• New blog Post: 2.0 Developer Preview.
• Start French documentation
• Translating Rubinius English Documentation to Portuguese Brazilian - Appendix b
• New blog post: rubinius rewards
• Add brief overview of Actors to concurrency docs
• FreeBSD notice in Requirements
• Updated RVM section in Readme with more detail and clarity.
• New blog post: Running Ruby With No Ruby.
• Platform Fixes:
• Add a bunch of errno’s from FreeBSD
• Performance Fixes:
• Speed up capi::HandleSet by adding an allocationless fast path
• Increase the malloc threshold to 100M
• 3x speedup in String#insert
• String#[] perf improved by 55% for the Fixnum case by removing not needed coerce_to
• Speed up some easy case for Array#*
• Speed up Array#map and #map! by 3x
• Increase performance of Module#public_/private_ and protected_methods
• Improve perf of Module#instance_methods and LookupTable#each
• Speed up Dir.glob for realistic workloads
• Improve the performance of mp_set_long
• Improve performance of Time#to_f
• Additions:
• Added Rubinius::KERNEL_PATH and install kernel .rb files.
• Add ability to display CAPI methods in backtraces
• Slow but usable IO.ioctl
• Add FFI::Pointer.size for compatibility with ruby-ffi
• Add ability to set the marksweep allocation threshold
• Added version checking to rbc loading.
• Improve the details the VM can show about a CompiledMethod
• New blog post: adam prescott on scopes in rubinius
• Remove Moment, not in use.
• Added -Xprofiler.output=name option.
• Simplify FalseClass#^.
• Ignore tooling/profiler generated Makefile.
• Move profiler to generic tooling framework
• Add rb_struct_getmember to CAPI
• Add rb_alias to CAPI
• Add rb_ary_to_ary to CAPI
• BIG improvement for Time#, credit should go to meadow
• Add tool for rendering call graph as HTML
• Add @avibryant’s protobuf decoding benchmark
• Update to latest OpenSSL extension from 1.8.7
• Add ability to disable inlining a method preemptively
• Bug Fixes:
• Load correct digest file, fixes broken Rubygems
• Fix Module#dup: use the direct_superclass instead of superclass
• Fixing inplace edit when no backup extension provided
• Add CodeLoader.compiled_hook, triggered after a source file is compiled
• Ported OpenStruct fix from MRI.
• Tag OpenStruct failures.
• Let IO#each increase the line count
• Memory allocated with ALLOC_N not freed by XFREE in edge cases
• Add spec for File.owned? and fix a bug
• Fixed memory leak, memory allocated by new[] was freed by delete instead of delete[]
• Removed characters accessor from String.
• Add ‘more correct’ -S flag for running gem commands in README
• Add support for -i CLI option
• Pick the proper local address to bind with
• Stop currently running methods to fix profiler results
• Fix SortedSet to ensure objects comparable with
• Translate appendix-a-glossary.markdown to pt-br
• Fixed rb_num2long, rb_num2ulong.
• Reenter managed mode BEFORE creating an FFI result object
• Honor Time subclasses in the right places
• rbx report should not fail silently when Gist submission didn’t work
• Add bounds checking to to_chars and make sure it’s 0 terminated
• Add dummy P rules for pack/unpack
• Have libc include a version number to deal with gentoo
• Fixed File.directory?.
• Allow rbx_meta_to_s to raise an exception
• Make Module#const_get the proper arity (rails fix)
• Fix Kernel#binding and it’s self(ish) rules
• Freeze strings returned by ENV.[].
• Fix = comparisons to avoid trivial object identity comparisons.
• Bounds check and avoid c_str() in Regexp prims
• Fix building with LLVM disabled
• Add workaround for setting ruby_verbose / ruby_debug in C extensions
• Fix render_profile, scripts, and thread runtimes
• Use Type.object_kind_of? instead of Class.===.
• Use object’s #respond_to? in Type.try_convert.
• Add additional safety checks to using the data of a String in the vm
• Correct mistaken usage of $stdin instead of $stdout in putc
• Fix #source_location for methods defined using define_method.
• Fix Marshal.dump for 64-bit Fixnum
• Errno::ISCONN -> Errno::EISCONN
• Marshal.load wraps NameError in ArgumentError
• Fixed YAML parsing second fraction to microseconds from iso8601 date
• Fix colliding Hash#entries method name
• Fix build on OpenBSD
• Fixed Array.slice!(0) for consecutive calls
• Fix Enumerable.include?(obj) to use call e_item==(obj), not obj==(e_item)
• Force LLVM to treat sandy bridge as core2