Scala Native v0.3.5

« Changelog History

Scala Native v0.3.5 Release Notes

• 🚑 This release focuses on performance and stability improvements, keeping backwards binary compatibility with previous releases in 0.3.x series. It includes exactly the same changes as 0.3.4, with a hotfix for broken sbt 1.0 plugin.

  Note : See also 0.3.6.

  🐎 Performance improvements 👟

  #1084 Devirtualize trait methods with 1 or less implementations (by @densh)
  #1085 #1114 Improve heuristic for heap growth in Immix GC (by @densh)
  #1088 Use AnyRefMap as a foundation for java.util.HashMap (by @densh)
  #1089 Faster String::{equals, hashCode} (by @densh)

  🍱 Library improvements 📚

  ✅ #1080 Port of java.nio buffers and tests from Scala.js (by @asoltysik)
  #1093 Implement posix syslog extern bindings (by @adam-singer)
  #1107 Add chdir to posix/unistd bindings (by @wookietreiber)

  🍱 Tooling improvements 🔧

  👍 #1039 #1096 Add support for sbt 1.0 (by @MasseGuillaume)
  👍 #1075 Add support Scala 2.11.12 (by @ekrich)
  #1051 Automatically detect LLVM 5.0 binaries (by @ekrich)

  🛠 Bugfixes 🐛

  #1009 #1057 Improve stability of GlobalBoxingElimination pass (by @densh)
  ✅ #1013 #1031 Make sure sbt test works if no tests are present (by @ekrich)
  #1015 Use JavaConverters instead of JavaConversions in javalib (by @piotrkwiecinski)
  #1019 Shift should always coerce to left hand side type (by @densh)
  #1021 Make UTF-8 decoder initialization lazy (by @densh)
  #1024 Fix resource leaks in java.nio.file (by @Daemonhost)
  👍 #1026 #1112 Add support for System.getProperty("user.home") (by @ekrich)
  👍 #1027 Add support for ArrayList.contains (by @cquiroz)
  #1037 java.lang.String.toCase should consider String's offset (by @Daemonhost)
  #1043 Fix signature for sleep in unistd.h bindings (by @Daemonhost)
  #1044 Make InetAddress a concrete class instead of abstract (by @asoltysik)
  📜 #1047 Double.parseDouble and and Float.parseFloat throw NumberFormatException when given bad data (by @longshorej)
  #1048 Fix the slow execution of the CfChainsSimplification pass (by @hkapp)
  ✏️ #1081 Add Fedora setup to the docs and fix typos (by @pbatko)
  #1101 Simplify stack trace element caching (by @densh)
  #1105 Report error on extern function without return type (by @pbatko)
  #1109 Use correct naming for libc math macros (by @techaddict)

  Contributors 👥

  🚀 According to git shortlog -sn --no-merges v0.3.3..v0.3.5, 15 people contributed to this release: Denys Shabalin, Eric K Richardson, Victor Burkhovetskiy, Adam Singer, Andrzej Sołtysik, Pawel Batko, Christian Krause, Hugo Kapp, Jason Longshore, Martin Duhem, Carlos Quiroz, Piotr Kwiecinski, Sandeep Singh, Shunsuke Otani, Guillaume Massé.

  🍱 Thank you all! ✨ 🍰 ✨

• All Versions
• Previous v0.3.4
• Next v0.3.6
• Latest Version