- Added `TraitObject` representation to `std::raw`.
- Added doc to `std::raw`.
- Removed `Any::as_void_ptr()` and `Any::as_mut_void_ptr()`
methods as they are uneccessary now after the removal of
headers on owned boxes. This reduces the number of virtual calls needed.
- Made the `..Ext` implementations work directly with the repr of
a trait object.
- Removed `Any`-related traits from the prelude.
- Added bench for `Any`
This patch merges IterBytes and Hash traits, which clears up the
confusion of using `#[deriving(IterBytes)]` to support hashing.
Instead, it now is much easier to use the new `#[deriving(Hash)]`
for making a type hashable with a stream hash.
Furthermore, it supports custom non-stream-based hashers, such as
if a value's hash was cached in a database.
This does not yet replace the old IterBytes-hash with this new
version.
The comments say that the prelude imports std::io::println since it would
be annoying to have to import it in every program that uses it. However,
the prelude doesn't actually import that function anymore. So, update the
comments to better match reality.
This, the Nth rewrite of channels, is not a rewrite of the core logic behind
channels, but rather their API usage. In the past, we had the distinction
between oneshot, stream, and shared channels, but the most recent rewrite
dropped oneshots in favor of streams and shared channels.
This distinction of stream vs shared has shown that it's not quite what we'd
like either, and this moves the `std::comm` module in the direction of "one
channel to rule them all". There now remains only one Chan and one Port.
This new channel is actually a hybrid oneshot/stream/shared channel under the
hood in order to optimize for the use cases in question. Additionally, this also
reduces the cognitive burden of having to choose between a Chan or a SharedChan
in an API.
My simple benchmarks show no reduction in efficiency over the existing channels
today, and a 3x improvement in the oneshot case. I sadly don't have a
pre-last-rewrite compiler to test out the old old oneshots, but I would imagine
that the performance is comparable, but slightly slower (due to atomic reference
counting).
This commit also brings the bonus bugfix to channels that the pending queue of
messages are all dropped when a Port disappears rather then when both the Port
and the Chan disappear.
Declare a `type SendStr = MaybeOwned<'static>` to ease readibility of
types that needed the old SendStr behavior.
Implement all the traits for MaybeOwned that SendStr used to implement.
`Times::times` was always a second-class loop because it did not support the `break` and `continue` operations. Its playful appeal (which I liked) was then lost after `do` was disabled for closures. It's time to let this one go.
`Times::times` was always a second-class loop because it did not support the `break` and `continue` operations. Its playful appeal was then lost after `do` was disabled for closures. It's time to let this one go.
The `print!` and `println!` macros are now the preferred method of printing, and so there is no reason to export the `stdio` functions in the prelude. The functions have also been replaced by their macro counterparts in the tutorial and other documentation so that newcomers don't get confused about what they should be using.
The methods contained in `std::num::{Algebraic, Trigonometric, Exponential, Hyperbolic}` have now been moved into `std::num::Real`. This is part of an ongoing effort to simplify `std::num` (see issue #10387).
`std::num::RealExt` has also been removed from the prelude because it is not a commonly used trait.
r? @alexcrichton
The methods contained in `std::num::{Algebraic, Trigonometric, Exponential, Hyperbolic}` have now been moved into `std::num::Real`. This is part of an ongoing effort to simplify `std::num` (see issue #10387).
`std::num::RealExt` has also been removed from the prelude because it is not a commonly used trait.
This commit uniforms the short title of modules provided by libstd,
in order to make their roles more explicit when glancing at the index.
Signed-off-by: Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
### Remove {As,Into,To}{Option,Either,Result} traits.
Expanded, that is:
- `AsOption`
- `IntoOption`
- `ToOption`
- `AsEither`
- `IntoEither`
- `ToEither`
- `AsResult`
- `IntoResult`
- `ToResult`
These were defined for each other but never *used* anywhere. They are
all trivial and so removal will have negligible effect upon anyone.
`Either` has fallen out of favour (and its implementation of these
traits of dubious semantics), `Option<T>` → `Result<T, ()>` was never
really useful and `Result<T, E>` → `Option<T>` should now be done with
`Result.ok()` (mirrored with `Result.err()` for even more usefulness).
In summary, there's really no point in any of these remaining.
### Rename To{Str,Bytes}Consume traits to Into*.
That is:
- `ToStrConsume` → `IntoStr`;
- `ToBytesConsume` → `IntoBytes`.
This pull request completely rewrites std::comm and all associated users. Some major bullet points
* Everything now works natively
* oneshots have been removed
* shared ports have been removed
* try_recv no longer blocks (recv_opt blocks)
* constructors are now Chan::new and SharedChan::new
* failure is propagated on send
* stream channels are 3x faster
I have acquired the following measurements on this patch. I compared against Go, but remember that Go's channels are fundamentally different than ours in that sends are by-default blocking. This means that it's not really a totally fair comparison, but it's good to see ballpark numbers for anyway
```
oneshot stream shared1
std 2.111 3.073 1.730
my 6.639 1.037 1.238
native 5.748 1.017 1.250
go8 1.774 3.575 2.948
go8-inf slow 0.837 1.376
go8-128 4.832 1.430 1.504
go1 1.528 1.439 1.251
go2 1.753 3.845 3.166
```
I had three benchmarks:
* oneshot - N times, create a "oneshot channel", send on it, then receive on it (no task spawning)
* stream - N times, send from one task to another task, wait for both to complete
* shared1 - create N threads, each of which sends M times, and a port receives N*M times.
The rows are as follows:
* `std` - the current libstd implementation (before this pull request)
* `my` - this pull request's implementation (in M:N mode)
* `native` - this pull request's implementation (in 1:1 mode)
* `goN` - go's implementation with GOMAXPROCS=N. The only relevant value is 8 (I had 8 cores on this machine)
* `goN-X` - go's implementation where the channels in question were created with buffers of size `X` to behave more similarly to rust's channels.
