• Many bug fixes
• Revised Class files
• Exact garbage collection
• Stack pointers tracked and treated as pointers
• No confusion based on bad integer values
• Compacting garbage collection
• No stack fragmentation
• Garbage collection slower, but occurs less frequently
• Extended heap space
• Heap > 60k now allowed, up to the amount of free memory available
• Application level orthogonal persistence
• Applications can be made persistent simply by switching to another application
• Program state correctly saved and restored when switching to/from applications, like any other Palm application.
• Application level program migration
• Inactive applications (created through persistence above) can be beamed to a different Palm connected organizer
• Works across PalmPilot types (III -> V and V -> III tested)
• Requires the second PalmPilot to also have the 1/11/00 Spotless VM installed

• Starcruiser crashes on exit.  Bug related to a corruption of the main class stack frame.
• Notetaker - Potential race condition in restoring from persistence. Solved with a IO.println call, but not fixed.
• Some applications currently do not function correctly on a Visor. Use with extreme caution on this device.
• Unconfirmed report that prolonged use can cause a memory corruption error. Make sure to back your device up regularly.

Please send any bug reports to Matthew Seidl, the current maintainer of this package.

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11 Jun 1999