Update ChangeLog in preparation for 4.1.0.

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* 4.1.0 (XXX)
This release is primarily about optimizations, but it also incorporates a lot
of portability-motivated refactoring and enhancements. Many people worked on
this release, to an extent that even with the omission here of minor changes
(see git revision history), and of the people who reported and diagnosed
issues, so much of the work was contributed that starting with this release,
changes are annotated with author credits to help reflect the collaborative
effort involved.
New features:
- Implement decay-based unused dirty page purging, a major optimization with
mallctl API impact. This is an alternative to the existing ratio-based
unused dirty page purging, and is intended to eventually become the sole
purging mechanism. New mallctls:
+ opt.purge
+ opt.decay_time
+ arena.<i>.decay
+ arena.<i>.decay_time
+ arenas.decay_time
+ stats.arenas.<i>.decay_time
(@jasone, @cevans87)
- Add --with-malloc-conf, which makes it possible to embed a default
options string during configuration. This was motivated by the desire to
specify --with-malloc-conf=purge:decay , since the default must remain
purge:ratio until the 5.0.0 release. (@jasone)
- Make *allocx() size class overflow behavior defined. The maximum
size class is now less than PTRDIFF_MAX to protect applications against
numerical overflow, and all allocation functions are guaranteed to indicate
errors rather than potentially crashing if the request size exceeds the
maximum size class. (@jasone)
- Add MS Visual Studio 2015 support. (@rustyx, @yuslepukhin)
- jeprof:
+ Add raw heap profile support. (@jasone)
+ Add --retain and --exclude for backtrace symbol filtering. (@jasone)
Optimizations:
- Optimize the fast path to combine various bootstrapping and configuration
checks and execute more streamlined code in the common case. (@interwq)
- Use linear scan for small bitmaps (used for small object tracking). In
addition to speeding up bitmap operations on 64-bit systems, this reduces
allocator metadata overhead by approximately 0.2%. (@djwatson)
- Separate arena_avail trees, which substantially speeds up run tree
operations. (@djwatson)
- Use memoization (boot-time-computed table) for run quantization. Separate
arena_avail trees reduced the importance of this optimization. (@jasone)
- Attempt mmap-based in-place huge reallocation. This can dramatically speed
up incremental huge reallocation. (@jasone)
Incompatible changes:
- Make opt.narenas unsigned rather than size_t. (@jasone)
Bug fixes:
- Refactor arenas array. In addition to fixing a fork-related deadlock, this
makes arena lookups faster and simpler. (@jasone)
- Handle unaligned keys in hash(). This caused problems for some ARM systems.
(@jasone)
- Fix run quantization. In practice this bug had no impact unless
applications requested memory with alignment exceeding one page. (@jasone)
- Move retained memory allocation out of the default chunk allocation
function, to a location that gets executed even if the application installs
a custom chunk allocation function. This resolves a virtual memory leak.
(@buchgr)
- Resolve undefined unsigned-to-signed conversion that could cause corruption
of the stats.cactive statistic. (@jasone)
- Fix LinuxThreads-specific bootstrapping deadlock. (Cosmin Paraschiv)
- jeprof:
+ Don't discard curl options if timeout is not defined. (@djwatson)
+ Detect failed profile fetches. (@djwatson)
* 4.0.4 (October 24, 2015) * 4.0.4 (October 24, 2015)
This bugfix release fixes another xallocx() regression. No other regressions This bugfix release fixes another xallocx() regression. No other regressions