[Caml-list] [ANN] OCamlnet-3.5.1

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

There is a patch release available, 3.5.1, fixing a few errors, mostly
build-related:

- Missing symbols on FreeBSD-9
- Missing symbols on Debian Wheezy (probably because of stricter 
  linking)
- posix_spawn is disabled on Mac (for the time being until the problem
  can be further tracked down)
- Mac OS does not like fchmod on shared memory

Gerd


Am Donnerstag, den 23.02.2012, 00:04 +0100 schrieb Gerd Stolpmann:
> Hi,
> 
> it is time for another version of Ocamlnet. The new release 3.5 focuses on
> the system interface, and includes a long list of smaller improvements.
> 
> The system interface, Netsys_posix, is extended by:
>  - Support for POSIX clocks and POSIX timers (with nanosecond resolution)
>  - Netsys_posix.spawn usses now the posix_spawn call if present on the OS
>  - Adding support for pollable events (as e.g. provided by Linux via
>    eventfd). For other OS an emulation is available.
>  - Support for epoll on Linux
> 
> Note that Netsys_posix covers now large parts of POSIX realtime.
> 
> Other improvements:
> 
>  - The code generator for XDR has been improved. A new switch -direct for
>    ocamlrpcgen can be used to generate direct mappings between OCaml values
>    and binary representation (in many cases). Speedups up to 50% are
>    possible for large XDR values.
>  - The new module Uq_mt allows it to access an event-driven resource from
>    several kernel threads (e.g. use an RPC client commonly from several
>    threads).
>  - The thread-safety of Netplex container functions has been improved.
>  - Netmulticore condition variables can now be polled, for better
>    integration into event-based programs.
>  - Option greedy_accepts for Netplex to support servers that accept
>    many connections per second. With this improvement, Netplex can
>    now accept more than 5000 connections/s, and assign them to worker
>    processes.
> 
> Last but not least there is now a new tutorial for Equeue (event systems
> and engines). In particular, the section about combining Ocamlnet with Lwt
> might be interesting.
> 
> For the full list of changes (especially bug fixes), see:
> 
> https://godirepo.camlcity.org/svn/lib-ocamlnet2/trunk/code/ChangeLog
> 
> The download, manual, and other resources:
> 
> http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/ocamlnet.html
> 
> GODI has been updated.
> 
> Gerd

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