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Re: [ann] fibers 1.0.0 released
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Matt Wette |
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Re: [ann] fibers 1.0.0 released |
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Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:31:37 -0700 |
> On Feb 20, 2017, at 12:19 PM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm delighted to announce the release of Fibers 1.0.0.
>
> Fibers is a lightweight concurrency facility for Guile that supports
> non-blocking input and output, millions of concurrent threads, and
> Concurrent ML-inspired communication primitives. For more information,
> see the web version of the manual at:
>
> https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual
>
> The manual is also available in PDF and Info formats in the tarball.
>
> The 1.0.0 tarball can be found here:
>
> https://wingolog.org/pub/fibers/fibers-1.0.0.tar.gz
>
> Its SHA256 sum is:
>
> a051913e252f872c969d71939310cee10844157a317db93ebcaf3df8c479536e
> fibers-1.0.0.tar.gz
>
> Fibers 1.0.0 requires the newly released Guile 2.1.7.
>
> This release finally improves the exception handling situation, so that
> that fibers that have uncaught exceptions print nice errors instead of
> killing the system. It also fixes a bug in channels, adds a condition
> variable implementation, adds a standalone web server implementation
> that scales with the number of cores available to it, implements many
> performance improvements, lowers the overhead of preemption, and
> improves documentation.
>
> Happy hacking,
>
> Andy
>
>
This is not going to compile on macOS or FreeBSD, but these OSes do support
kqueue.
How to proceed? I think making equeue look like epoll may be a bit kludgy.
And the cpuclockid calls need to be dealt with:
* clock_getcpuclockid
* pthread_getcpuclockid
* clock_nanosleep
Matt
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