All releases of JamVM
Release Notes: This release improves the speed of string interning and object and array allocation. It incorporates the generics patch and the Classpath 0.15 boot library path patch. A couple of other minor feature enhancements have also been added, and several bugs have been fixed.
Release Notes: Since the last announcement, the interpreter has been changed to use "direct-dispatching", and is now on average 80-100% faster. This release has been ported to Mac OS X/Darwin. Several other minor features have been added, and bugs fixed.
Release Notes: This release sets the locale and associated system properties for use with GNU Classpath. A powerPC bug has been fixed that broke image display, and more zip consistency checks are included. A couple of other minor build changes have also been made.
Release Notes: Major improvements include a substantially rewritten interpreter and Zip/Jar support in the bootstrap class loader. The interpreter gives a speed-up of between 15-30% on PowerPC and 50% on ARM. Several bugs have also been fixed. These are mostly concerned with "edge conditions", and didn't affect the majority of users.
Release Notes: This release added support for GNU Classpath 0.09 and implemented the JNI enhancements introduced in Java 1.2. The deprecated compiler warnings in GCC versions newer than 3.3.3 were fixed (it now builds with GCC 3.5.0). Some build improvements were made along with minor bugfixes and performance enhancements.
Release Notes: This release is compatible with code produced by javac in JDK >= 1.4 and Jikes 1.19. Two new command line options have been added to append and prepend entries to the bootstrap class loader, and several minor bugs reported by users have been fixed.
Release Notes: Support was added for GNU Classpath 0.07, Miranda methods, and Java 2 style application classloader/bootstrap loader split (can now use Jar and Zip archives). The usual minor bugfixes and performance improvements were also made.
No changes have been submitted for this release.
