CHANGES

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                               Changes in 1.0rc1
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- Added support for dynamically promoted threads, which offer
better trade-offs than the existing ULT and tasklet methods
- Reduced the overhead of context switching
- Fixed the Valgrind support
- Extended the API with new blocking pool operations
- Leverage the more efficient GCC `__atomic` builtins when available
- Fixed a bug in the condition variable implementation
- Fixed bugs in memory pool
- Fixed bugs in pool operation

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                               Changes in 1.0b1
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- Added new API routines for bulk ULT creation and destruction
- Reduced the overhead of error checking
- Fixed bugs in some thread synchronization routines
- Fixed POWER8 support
- CPU affinity improvements on Intel KNL
- Improved the dynamic management of large numbers of execution streams
- Removed the local-exec TLS option
- Updated the documentation
- Added performance benchmarks

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                               Changes in 1.0a1
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The first release of Argobots.