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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html index 2456a1b674..c3c90438fa 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html @@ -204,6 +204,12 @@ cases).</li> <li>Code for running C++ destructors is now properly shared when possible. Before, the C++ front-end <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR11">generated N^2 amounts of duplicated cleanup code</a> in some cases.</li> + +<li>The JIT used to <a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR177">generate code for + all functions pointed to by globals</a> immediately, before the program + started execution, but now it waits until the first time they are called to + compile them. This dramatically speeds up short runs of large C++ programs, + which often have large numbers of functions pointed to by vtables.</li> </ol> |