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Issue 477203002: NaCl documentation: update release notes for Chrome 38 (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src

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+++ b/native_client_sdk/doc_generated/sdk/release-notes.html

@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@

<span id="sdk-release-notes"></span><h1 id="release-notes"><span id="sdk-release-notes"></span>Release Notes</h1>

-<h2 id="chrome-pepper-37-20-june-2014">Chrome/Pepper 37 (20 June 2014)</h2>

+<h2 id="chrome-pepper-38-15-august-2014">Chrome/Pepper 38 (15 August 2014)</h2>

<h3 id="pnacl">PNaCl</h3>

+<li>Compilation speed improvements due to validation caching of the translator and

+linker.</li>

+<li>Performance improvement of SIMD vector shuffle.</li>

+</ul>

+<h2 id="chrome-pepper-37-20-june-2014">Chrome/Pepper 37 (20 June 2014)</h2>

+<h3 id="id1">PNaCl</h3>

+<ul class="small-gap">

<li>2–10% translation time improvement.</li>

<li>Improved vector load/store and shuffle performance.</li>

</ul>

@@ -20,7 +27,7 @@

<li>Demo of a <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/io2014.html#io2014"><em>full development environment in the browser</em></a>.</li>

</ul>

<h2 id="chrome-pepper-36-09-may-2014">Chrome/Pepper 36 (09 May 2014)</h2>

-<h3 id="id1">PNaCl</h3>

+<h3 id="id2">PNaCl</h3>

<li>Support <a class="reference external" href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#vectors-and-extended-vectors">LLVM vectors</a>

and <a class="reference external" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Vector-Extensions.html">GCC vectors</a> for SIMD

@@ -29,7 +36,7 @@ and performance is expected to become acceptable for version 37 of

Chrome. More SIMD instructions will be added in later releases.</li>

</ul>

<h2 id="chrome-pepper-35-31-mar-2014">Chrome/Pepper 35 (31 Mar 2014)</h2>

-<h3 id="id2">PNaCl</h3>

+<h3 id="id3">PNaCl</h3>

<li>Upgraded LLVM to version 3.4.</li>

<li>Translation now uses dynamic load balancing, making translation time faster.</li>

@@ -37,7 +44,7 @@ Chrome. More SIMD instructions will be added in later releases.</li>

Chrome, simplifying debugging with PNaCl. See <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/devguide/devcycle/debugging.html#debugging-pnacl-pexes"><em>Debugging PNaCl pexes</em></a></li>

</ul>

<h2 id="chrome-pepper-34-20-feb-2014">Chrome/Pepper 34 (20 Feb 2014)</h2>

-<h3 id="id3">Pepper</h3>

+<h3 id="id4">Pepper</h3>

<li>Filesystems can now be passed from JavaScript to NaCl. The resulting

<code>pp::Var</code> will contain a <code>pp::Resource</code> that can be given to the

@@ -47,7 +54,7 @@ Chrome, simplifying debugging with PNaCl. See <a class="reference internal" href

<a class="reference external" href="/native-client/pepper_dev/cpp/classpp_1_1_media_stream_video_track">pp::MediaStreamVideoTrack</a> for

more details.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id4">PNaCl</h3>

+<h3 id="id5">PNaCl</h3>

<li>Parallel translation: at least 1.7x faster, even with older pexes.</li>

<li>Intelligent abbreviations in the bitcode: 20% reduction in binary size using

@@ -61,7 +68,7 @@ LLVM 3.3. This library now supports optional <code>setjmp</code>/<code>longjmp</

handling (see <a class="reference external" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/native-client-discuss/0spfg6O04FM">announcement</a>

for details).</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id5">SDK</h3>

+<h3 id="id6">SDK</h3>

<li>The <code>nacl_io</code> library now includes a FUSE mount.</li>

<li>In the SDK examples, <code>common.js</code> now loads the Release version of the

@@ -175,7 +182,7 @@ for an application can specify a source file to compile such as

<p>The Pepper 26 bundle includes a new HTTP filesystem type in the nacl_mounts

library (which has been renamed nacl_io), changes to the example Makefiles, a

simple new 3D example, and a threaded file IO example.</p>

-<h3 id="id6">Build tools and toolchains</h3>

+<h3 id="id7">Build tools and toolchains</h3>

<li><p class="first">Makefiles have been changed significantly:</p>

@@ -195,14 +202,14 @@ with all toolchains.</li>

the same set of header files as host builds. Previously host and NaCl builds

used different headers, which could cause build problems.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id7">Libraries</h3>

+<h3 id="id8">Libraries</h3>

<li>The nacl_mounts library has been renamed <strong>nacl_io</strong>, and has been expanded

with a new type of mount, httpfs, which can be used to read URLs via HTTP.

For details see <code>include/nacl_io/nacl_io.h</code>, as well as the

<code>hello_nacl_io</code> example.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id8">Examples</h3>

+<h3 id="id9">Examples</h3>

<li>A new example, <strong>hello_world_instance3d</strong>, has been added to demonstrate a

simplified 3D app.</li>

@@ -224,7 +231,7 @@ which provides a virtual file system that you can use with standard C file

operations, and ppapi_main, which lets you implement a Native Client module

using a simple ppapi_main function), and two new examples that demonstrate how

to use the nacl_mounts and ppapi_main libraries.</p>

-<h3 id="id9">Build tools and toolchains</h3>

+<h3 id="id10">Build tools and toolchains</h3>

<li><p class="first">The SDK includes a new toolchain to build Native Client executables (.nexe

files) for <strong>ARM devices</strong>.</p>

@@ -261,7 +268,7 @@ For a C++ example of how to use the MessageLoop API, see

cannot make asynchronous PPAPI calls on a background thread without creating

and using a message loop.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id10">Libraries</h3>

+<h3 id="id11">Libraries</h3>

<p>The SDK includes two new libraries:</p>

<li><p class="first">The <strong>nacl_mounts</strong> library provides a virtual file system that your module

@@ -295,7 +302,7 @@ how to use ppapi_main, see examples/hello_world_stdio.</li>

<p>Header files for the new libraries are in the <code>include/</code> directory, source

files are in the <code>src/</code> directory, and compiled libraries are in the <code>lib/</code>

directory.</p>

-<h3 id="id11">Examples</h3>

+<h3 id="id12">Examples</h3>

<li><p class="first">The SDK includes two new examples:</p>

@@ -336,7 +343,7 @@ source dependencies, and invokes the build rules in a separate file

for “Portable Native Client”), a new library (pthreads-win32) for the Windows

SDK, and an expanded list of attributes for Pepper 3D contexts that lets

applications specify a GPU preference for low power or performance.</p>

-<h3 id="id12">Build tools and toolchains</h3>

+<h3 id="id13">Build tools and toolchains</h3>

<li>The SDK includes a new, experimental toolchain called <a class="reference external" href="http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf">PNaCl</a> (pronounced

“pinnacle”). The PNaCl toolchain produces architecture-independent executable

@@ -352,7 +359,7 @@ determine the architecture of .nexe files. That means you can change the

names of your .nexe files and <code>create_nmf.py</code> will still be able to

generate the appropriate Native Client manifest file for your application.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id14">Examples</h3>

+<h3 id="id15">Examples</h3>

<li>The SDK examples now build with four toolchains: the glibc and newlib

toolchains, the experimental PNaCl toolchain, and the hosted toolchain on

@@ -363,7 +370,7 @@ builds both a debug and a release version.</li>

drawing function is now set up as the Flush() callback, which allows 2D

drawing to occur as quickly as possible.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id15">PPAPI</h3>

+<h3 id="id16">PPAPI</h3>

<li>When creating a 3D rendering context, the <a class="reference external" href="/native-client/pepper_stable/c/group___enums#ga7df48e1c55f6401beea2a1b9c07967e8">attribute list</a>

for the context can specify whether to prefer low power or performance for

@@ -435,7 +442,7 @@ Note that you must set the <code>CHROME_PATH</code> environment variable and sta

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id16">Examples</h3>

+<h3 id="id17">Examples</h3>

<li>On Linux and Windows systems, most of the examples now build with three

toolchains: the Native Client glibc and newlib toolchains, and the native

@@ -451,7 +458,7 @@ onclick="..."></code>). See <a class="reference external" href="/e

a list of changes between version 1 and version 2 of the manifest file

format, and a support schedule for applications that use version 1.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id17">PPAPI</h3>

+<h3 id="id18">PPAPI</h3>

<li><a class="reference external" href="/native-client/pepper_stable/c/group___enums#ga21b811ac0484a214a8751aa3e1c959d9">PP_InputEvent_Modifier</a>

has two new enum values (_ISLEFT and _ISRIGHT).</li>

@@ -462,14 +469,14 @@ been fixed.</li>

<p>The Pepper 22 bundle includes a <strong>command-line debugger</strong>, resources to enable

<strong>hosted development on Windows</strong>, and changes to the example Makefiles (each

example now builds both a debug and a release version).</p>

-<h3 id="id18">Tools</h3>

+<h3 id="id19">Tools</h3>

<li>The SDK now includes a <strong>command-line debugger</strong> that you can use to debug

Native Client modules. See <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/devguide/devcycle/debugging.html#devcycle-debugging"><em>Debugging with nacl-gdb</em></a> for instructions on how to use this debugger. For now,

nacl-gdb only works on 64-bit Windows, 64-bit Linux, and 32-bit Linux

systems. Support for Mac and 32-bit Windows systems will be added soon.</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id19">Windows SDK</h3>

+<h3 id="id20">Windows SDK</h3>

<li><p class="first">Developers using the Windows SDK can now <strong>build a module as a Pepper

plugin</strong> (sometimes called a “trusted” or “in-process” plugin) using the

@@ -517,7 +524,7 @@ or <a class="reference external" href="http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/how-

In the future, the SDK will include resources for hosted development on Mac

and Linux as well as Windows.

</aside>

-<h3 id="id20">Examples</h3>

+<h3 id="id21">Examples</h3>

<li>Each example in the SDK now builds both a debug and a release version. As

before, most examples also build newlib and glibc versions, which means that

@@ -531,7 +538,7 @@ in each example’s web page, attaches event listeners to monitor the loadin

of the module, and implements handleMessage() to respond to messages sent

from the NaCl module to the JavaScript side of the application</li>

</ul>

-<h3 id="id21">PPAPI</h3>

+<h3 id="id22">PPAPI</h3>

<li>The <code>CompletionCallbackFactory</code> class template now takes a thread traits

class as its second parameter. For details see the <a class="reference external" href="/native-client/pepper_stable/cpp/classpp_1_1_completion_callback_factory#details">CompletionCallbackFactory