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2008-09-21

2008-09-21 14:16:09 by Henrik Grubbström (Grubba) <grubba@grubba.org>

Added some notes about backends.

Rev: CHANGES:1.141

106:    string(0..255) bytes;      o Support for having multiple different active backend implementations. -  FIXME: example? +     -  FIXME: poll/epoll, PollDeviceBackend, PollBackend, SelectBackend, -  DefaultBackend, SmallBackend +  In Pike 7.6 and earlier, there could only be one active backend +  implementation at a time, which was the one selected for best +  performance with lots of files (cf Pike.Backend below). This led +  to problems when pike attempted to run poll device based backends +  on older versions of operating systems where poll devices aren't +  available, and with extra overhead when the backend was only used +  with a very small set of files.    -  +  Basic backend implementations: +  +  - Pike.PollDeviceBackend +  This is a backend that is implemented based on keeping the state in +  the operating system kernel and thus eliminating the need to send the +  state in every system call. This is however not available on all +  operating systems. Currently supported are /dev/poll (Solaris, etc), +  epoll(2) (Linux) and kqueue(2) (FreeBSD, MacOS X). +  +  - Pike.PollBackend +  This is a backend that is implemented based on the poll(2) system call. +  This is typically available on all System V or Linux based systems. +  +  - Pike.SelectBackend +  This is a backend that is implmented based on the BSD select(2) system +  call. This is supported on all operating systems. +  +  Derived backend implementations: +  +  - Pike.Backend +  This is the backend selected among the basic backend implementations, +  which is likely to have the best performance when there are lots of +  files in the backend. +  +  - Pike.SmallBackend +  This is the backend selected among the basic backend implementations, +  which is likely to have the best performance when there are very few +  files in the backend. +  +  Note that there is also a default backend object: +  +  - Pike.DefaultBackend +  This is the Pike.Backend object that is used if no other backend +  object has been specified. +    o cpp       The preprocessor now supports macro expansion in the #include and #string
125:    running out of references, or reaped by the garbage collector.       These integers are defined in the new Object module as -  DESCTRUCT_EXPLICIT, DESTRUCT_NO_REFS, DESTRUCT_GC and +  DESTRUCT_EXPLICIT, DESTRUCT_NO_REFS, DESTRUCT_GC and    DESTRUCT_CLEANUP.      o Improved support for mixin.
214:    The symbol __func__ now evaluates to the name of the current    function. Note that this name currently can differ from the    declared name in case of local functions (ie lambdas). Note -  also that __func__ behaves like a litteral string, so implicit +  also that __func__ behaves like a literal string, so implicit    string concatenation is supported. eg:       error("Error in " __func__ ".\n");
993:       - Added support for file/directory completion within strings    -  - Added doc command and F1 key to print documentation on anitem if +  - Added doc command and F1 key to print documentation on an item if    available (currently only works for modules and classes written in    pike)   
1367:   valgrind_hilfe and valgrind_just_verify      New malloc on Windows. +  + FIXME: Multiple INVALID above: Return correct UNDEFINED instead of 0 values for NULL values in resultsets. +