This reorganizes the documentation index to be more focused on the in-tree docs, and to clean up the style, and it also adds @steveklabnik's pointer guide.
I was reading through the tutorial and manual pdfs and noticed some of the code blocks have glitches in their formatting:
Putting empty lines around the blocks fixes this. I did a search through the other markdown files and made the change there as well.
This is not done yet but I'm posting it to get feedback.
The wiki has a ton of different tutorials/manuals/faq and so forth. Instead of migrating all of them right now, I just migrated the following:
* The general main wiki page
* Language FAQ
* Project FAQ
If this feels reasonable, please comment so that I can continue with confidence.
Ensure configure creates doc/guides directory
Fix configure makefile and tests
Remove old guides dir and configure option, convert testing to guide
Remove ignored files
Fix submodule issue
prepend dir in makefile so that bor knows how to build the docs
S to uppercase
Previously this was an `rtabort!`, indicating a runtime bug. Promote
this to a more intentional abort and print a (slightly) more
informative error message.
Can't test this sense our test suite can't handle an abort exit.
I consider this to close#910, and that we should open another issue about implementing less conservative semantics here.
Previously this was an rtabort!, indicating a runtime bug. Promote
this to a more intentional abort and print a (slightly) more
informative error message.
Can't test this sense our test suite can't handle an abort exit.
Currently any line starting with `#` is filtered from the output,
including line like `#[deriving]`; this patch makes it so lines are only
filtered when followed by a space similar to the current behaviour of
the tutorial/manual tester.
Currently any line starting with `#` is filtered from the output,
including line like `#[deriving]`; this patch makes it so lines are only
filtered when followed by a space similar to the current behaviour of
the tutorial/manual tester.
This change extends the pkgid attribute to allow of explicit crate names, instead of always inferring them based on the path. This means that if your GitHub repo is called `rust-foo`, you can have your pkgid set your library name to `foo`. You'd do this with a pkgid attribute like `github.com/somewhere/rust-foo#foo:1.0`.
This is half of the fix for #10922.
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.
