--- trunk/RELEASE 2007/10/08 16:19:56 24 +++ trunk/RELEASE 2007/10/08 16:20:10 26 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Release notes for Gavare's eXperimental Emulator (GXemul), 0.4.0 -================================================================ +Release notes for Gavare's eXperimental Emulator (GXemul), 0.4.0.1 +================================================================== Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Anders Gavare. @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ systems are probably NetBSD/pmax, NetBSD/cats, and OpenBSD/cats. -The most important change between release 0.3.8 and 0.4.0 is: +The most important change between release 0.3.8 and 0.4.0.1 is: o) The emulation of MIPS processors has been completely rewritten; it now uses the same portable dynamic translation system as the @@ -25,16 +25,12 @@ will perform worse than 0.3.8 on those host architectures. On all other hosts (including AMD64 running in native 64-bit mode), - 0.4.0 is likely to be faster than 0.3.8, when emulating MIPS, at - least for R3000 emulation. + 0.4.0 is likely to be faster than 0.3.8, when emulating MIPS. I think that in the long term, moving towards full portability like this is a good idea. -(Since the MIPS emulation mode has been rewritten from scratch, and I have -not really had much time over for debugging, there are most likely new -bugs in 0.4.0 that were not present in 0.3.8. However, I feel that it is -better to make a quick release now than to wait even longer.) +(0.4.0 was a bit buggy and unstable; 0.4.0.1 is a quick-fix release.) There have also been many other changes, including, but not limited to: @@ -58,7 +54,6 @@ Files included in this release are: - BUGS List of known bugs for this release. HISTORY Detailed revision history / changelog. LICENSE Copyright message / license. README Quick start instructions, for the impatient.