ruby-changes:54262
From: stomar <ko1@a...>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 07:54:41 +0900 (JST)
Subject: [ruby-changes:54262] stomar:r66471 (trunk): NEWS: small improvements
stomar 2018-12-21 07:54:36 +0900 (Fri, 21 Dec 2018) New Revision: 66471 https://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=66471 Log: NEWS: small improvements Modified files: trunk/NEWS Index: NEWS =================================================================== --- NEWS (revision 66470) +++ NEWS (revision 66471) @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ sufficient information, see the ChangeLo https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/NEWS#L14 === Language changes -* <code>$SAFE</code> is a process global state and we can set 0 again. [Feature #14250] +* <code>$SAFE</code> is a process global state and we can set it to 0 again. [Feature #14250] * refinements take place at block passing. [Feature #14223] @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ sufficient information, see the ChangeLo https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/NEWS#L270 [Regexp/String] - * Update Unicode version from 10.0.0 to 11.0.0 [Feature #14802] + * Update Unicode version from 10.0.0 to 11.0.0. [Feature #14802] This includes a rewrite of the grapheme cluster (/\X/) algorithm and special-casing for Georgian MTAVRULI on String#downcase. @@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ sufficient information, see the ChangeLo https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/NEWS#L580 * Speedup Proc#call because we don't need to care about <code>$SAFE</code> any more. [Feature #14318] - With +lc_fizzbuzz+ benchmark which uses so many Proc#call we can + With +lc_fizzbuzz+ benchmark which uses Proc#call many times we can measure x1.4 improvements. [Bug #10212] * Speedup block.call where +block+ is passed block parameter. [Feature #14330] @@ -589,11 +589,11 @@ sufficient information, see the ChangeLo https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/NEWS#L589 Additionally, Ruby 2.6 improves the performance of passed block calling. -* Introduce an initial implementation of JIT (Just-in-time) compiler. [Feature #14235] [experimental] +* Introduce an initial implementation of a JIT (Just-in-time) compiler. [Feature #14235] [experimental] * <tt>--jit</tt> command line option is added to enable JIT. <tt>--jit-verbose=1</tt> is good for inspection. See <tt>ruby --help</tt> for others. - * To generate machine code, this JIT compiler uses C compiler used for building + * To generate machine code, this JIT compiler uses the C compiler used for building the interpreter. Currently GCC, Clang, and Microsoft Visual C++ are supported for it. * <tt>--disable-mjit-support</tt> option is added to configure. This is added for JIT debugging, but if you get an error on building a header file for JIT, you can use this option to skip @@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ sufficient information, see the ChangeLo https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/NEWS#L609 * timer thread is eliminated for platforms with POSIX timers [Misc #14937] * Transient Heap (theap) is supported. [Bug #14858] [Feature #14989] - theap is managed heap for short-living memory objects. For example, - making small and short-living Hash object is x2 faster. With rdoc benchmark, + theap is a managed heap for short-living memory objects. For example, + making a small and short-living Hash object is x2 faster. With rdoc benchmark, we measured 6-7% performance improvement. * Native implementations (arm32, arm64, ppc64le, win32, win64, x86, amd64) of -- ML: ruby-changes@q... Info: http://www.atdot.net/~ko1/quickml/