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| author | Benoit Germain <bnt.germain@gmail.com> | 2011-03-30 19:16:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Benoit Germain <bnt.germain@gmail.com> | 2011-03-30 19:44:17 +0200 |
| commit | 2d5d798c24286f10c1bffd5ea4ac466c2c3a12fa (patch) | |
| tree | 17cdd59743fde2e33361509e5e5b847c0b816926 /docs | |
| parent | 5499ec1a61be9797c57834618a49731952b1d212 (diff) | |
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New features
* linda honors __tostring and __concat
* new accessor linda:keys(), to retrieve the list of keys with pending data inside a linda
* new lanes options packagepath and packagecpath, in case one needs to set them differently than the default
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/index.html | 37 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index ba25515..7d61d96 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html | |||
| @@ -263,6 +263,19 @@ also in the new lanes. | |||
| 263 | Implementation and dependability of priorities varies | 263 | Implementation and dependability of priorities varies |
| 264 | by platform. Especially Linux kernel 2.6 is not supporting priorities in user mode. | 264 | by platform. Especially Linux kernel 2.6 is not supporting priorities in user mode. |
| 265 | </td></tr> | 265 | </td></tr> |
| 266 | |||
| 267 | <tr valign="top"> | ||
| 268 | <td width="40"> | ||
| 269 | <td> | ||
| 270 | <code>.packagepath</code> | ||
| 271 | <br/><code>.packagecpath</code> | ||
| 272 | </td> | ||
| 273 | <td> | ||
| 274 | <code>package.path</code> and <code>package.cpath</code> overrides, if needed. | ||
| 275 | Specifying these when <code>libs_str</code> doesn't cause the <code>package</code> library to be loaded will generate an error. | ||
| 276 | <br> | ||
| 277 | </td> | ||
| 278 | </tr> | ||
| 266 | </table> | 279 | </table> |
| 267 | <p>Each lane also gets a function <tt>set_debug_threadname()</tt> that it can use anytime to do as the name says. | 280 | <p>Each lane also gets a function <tt>set_debug_threadname()</tt> that it can use anytime to do as the name says. |
| 268 | Supported debuggers are Microsoft Visual Studio (for the C side) and Decoda (for the Lua side). | 281 | Supported debuggers are Microsoft Visual Studio (for the C side) and Decoda (for the Lua side). |
| @@ -547,7 +560,18 @@ They can be used for making shared tables of storage among the lanes. | |||
| 547 | Writing to a slot overwrites existing value, and clears any possible queued | 560 | Writing to a slot overwrites existing value, and clears any possible queued |
| 548 | entries. Table access and <tt>send</tt>/<tt>receive</tt> can be used together; | 561 | entries. Table access and <tt>send</tt>/<tt>receive</tt> can be used together; |
| 549 | reading a slot essentially peeks the next outcoming value of a queue. | 562 | reading a slot essentially peeks the next outcoming value of a queue. |
| 550 | </p> | 563 | </p><p> |
| 564 | |||
| 565 | <table border="1" bgcolor="#E0E0FF" cellpadding="10"> | ||
| 566 | <tr> | ||
| 567 | <td> | ||
| 568 | <code>[val]= linda_h:keys()</code> | ||
| 569 | </table> | ||
| 570 | |||
| 571 | </p> | ||
| 572 | <p> | ||
| 573 | A way to examine the slots in which a linda contains some pending data to be read. | ||
| 574 | </p> | ||
| 551 | 575 | ||
| 552 | <!-- | 576 | <!-- |
| 553 | <p> | 577 | <p> |
| @@ -961,8 +985,15 @@ its actual value. | |||
| 961 | 985 | ||
| 962 | <p> | 986 | <p> |
| 963 | 987 | ||
| 964 | Mar-2011 (2.1.0) | 988 | Mar-2011 (not yet versioned) |
| 965 | <ul> | 989 | <ul> |
| 990 | <li>linda honors __tostring and __concat</li> | ||
| 991 | <li>new accessor linda:keys(), to retrieve the list of keys with pending data inside a linda</li> | ||
| 992 | <li>new lanes options packagepath and packagecpath, in case one needs to set them differently than the default</li> | ||
| 993 | </ul> | ||
| 994 | |||
| 995 | Mar-2011 (2.1.0) | ||
| 996 | <ul> | ||
| 966 | <li>fixed potential crash at application shutdown when calling lua_close() on a killed thread's VM.</li> | 997 | <li>fixed potential crash at application shutdown when calling lua_close() on a killed thread's VM.</li> |
| 967 | <li>exposed cancel_test() in the lanes to enable manual testing for cancellation requests.</li> | 998 | <li>exposed cancel_test() in the lanes to enable manual testing for cancellation requests.</li> |
| 968 | <li>removed kludgy {globals={threadName}} support, replaced with a new function set_debug_threadname().</li> | 999 | <li>removed kludgy {globals={threadName}} support, replaced with a new function set_debug_threadname().</li> |