From: Joel Rosdahl Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:01:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Minor updates of NEWS X-Git-Tag: v3.1~10 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aefb383b9904622998bc17a9cf99243b1ed73fa8;p=thirdparty%2Fccache.git Minor updates of NEWS --- diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 42f3957ac..df05c7757 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ Release date: TBD New features and improvements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - Added support for hashing the output of a custom command to identify the - compiler instead of stat-ing or hashing the compiler binary. This can - improve robustness when the compiler (as seen by ccache) actually isn't - the real compiler but another compiler wrapper. + - Added support for hashing the output of a custom command (e.g. `$compiler + --version`) to identify the compiler instead of stat-ing or hashing the + compiler binary. This can improve robustness when the compiler (as seen + by ccache) actually isn't the real compiler but another compiler wrapper. - - Added support for compilations using precompiled headers. (See the manual - for important instructions regarding this.) + - Added support for compiling with precompiled headers. (See the manual for + important instructions regarding this.) - Locking of the files containing statistics counters is now done using symlinks instead of POSIX locks. This should make ccache behave a lot - better on file systems (e.g. NFS) where broken POSIX locks are slow or - broken. + better on file systems where POSIX locks are slow or broken (e.g. NFS on + some systems). - Locks are no longer taken when updating manifest files. (A race between two writing processes will only result in one lost entry, which is not a @@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ New features and improvements sub-level statistics files. This reduces lock contention, which especially improves performance on slow NFS mounts. - - Reading and writing of statistics counters is now forward-compatible - (unknown counters are retained). + - Reading and writing of statistics counters has been made + forward-compatible (unknown counters are retained). - - Files are now read without using mmap(). (This has two benefits: it's - more robust against file changes during reading and it improves - performance on poor systems where mmap() doesn't use the disk cache.) + - Files are now read without using mmap(). This has two benefits: it's more + robust against file changes during reading and it improves performance on + poor systems where mmap() doesn't use the disk cache. - Added `.cp` and `.CP` as known C++ suffixes. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Bug fixes - Non-fatal error messages are now never printed to stderr but logged instead. - - Fixed bug affecting failing commands when `--ccache-skip` is used. + - Fixed a bug affecting failing commands when `--ccache-skip` is used. Other @@ -61,19 +61,20 @@ Other The port is not yet finished, but will hopefully be complete in some subsequent release. - - Added a --nostats flag to the performance benchmark program. + - Added a `--nostats` flag to the performance benchmark program. - Made the performance benchmark program more accurate when measuring cache hits. - Added a new test framework for unit tests written in C. - - Got rid of configure-dev; dev mode is now given by dev.mk.in presence. + - Got rid of `configure-dev`; dev mode is now given by `dev.mk.in` + presence. - Improved documentation on how to combine ccache with other compiler - wrappers (like distcc). + wrappers (like `distcc`). - - New `LICENSE.txt` file with licensing and copyright detail about bundled + - New `LICENSE.txt` file with licensing and copyright details about bundled source code. - New `AUTHORS.txt` file with a list of ccache contributors.