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.
* Streams are now ~3x faster than before (fewer allocations and more optimized)
* Based on a single-producer single-consumer lock-free queue that doesn't
always have to allocate on every send.
* Blocking via mutexes/cond vars outside the runtime
* Streams work in/out of the runtime seamlessly
* Select now works in/out of the runtime seamlessly
* Streams will now fail!() on send() if the other end has hung up
* try_send() will not fail
* PortOne/ChanOne removed
* SharedPort removed
* MegaPipe removed
* Generic select removed (only one kind of port now)
* API redesign
* try_recv == never block
* recv_opt == block, don't fail
* iter() == Iterator<T> for Port<T>
* removed peek
* Type::new
* Removed rt::comm
docs for copy_memory.
&mut [u8] and &[u8] really shouldn't be overlapping at all (part of the
uniqueness/aliasing guarantee of &mut), so no point in encouraging it.
Could prevent callers from catching the situation and lead to e.g early
iterator terminations (cf. `Reader::read_byte') since `None' is only to
be returned only on EOF.
Understand 'pkgid' in stage0. As a bonus, the snapshot now contains now metadata
(now that those changes have landed), and the snapshot download is half as large
as it used to be!
The problem was that std::run::Process::new() was unwrap()ing the result
of std::io::process::Process::new(), which returns None in the case
where the io_error condition is raised to signal failure to start the
process.
Have std::run::Process::new() similarly return an Option\<run::Process\>
to reflect the fact that a subprocess might have failed to start. Update
utility functions run::process_status() and run::process_output() to
return Option\<ProcessExit\> and Option\<ProcessOutput\>, respectively.
Various parts of librustc and librustpkg needed to be updated to reflect
these API changes.
closes#10754
The problem was that std::run::Process::new() was unwrap()ing the result
of std::io::process::Process::new(), which returns None in the case
where the io_error condition is raised to signal failure to start the
process.
Have std::run::Process::new() similarly return an Option<run::Process>
to reflect the fact that a subprocess might have failed to start. Update
utility functions run::process_status() and run::process_output() to
return Option<ProcessExit> and Option<ProcessOutput>, respectively.
Various parts of librustc and librustpkg needed to be updated to reflect
these API changes.
closes#10754
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.
This adds a bunch of useful Reader and Writer implementations. I'm not a
huge fan of the name `util` but I can't think of a better name and I
don't want to make `std::io` any longer than it already is.
This adds a bunch of useful Reader and Writer implementations. I'm not a
huge fan of the name `util` but I can't think of a better name and I
don't want to make `std::io` any longer than it already is.
- `Buffer.lines()` returns `LineIterator` which yields line using
`.read_line()`.
- `Reader.bytes()` now takes `&mut self` instead of `self`.
- `Reader.read_until()` swallows `EndOfFile`. This also affects
`.read_line()`.
This replaces the link meta attributes with a pkgid attribute and uses a hash
of this as the crate hash. This makes the crate hash computable by things
other than the Rust compiler. It also switches the hash function ot SHA1 since
that is much more likely to be available in shell, Python, etc than SipHash.
Fixes#10188, #8523.
