you just have to fix the initialization, that shouldn't be too long)
* Kill the braindead MSG_task_refcount_dec() function. I guess nobody
ever managed to do anything useful with it.
+ * New function MSG_comm_testany(). Similarly to MSG_comm_waitany(), it
+ takes a dynar of communications. It returns immediately and gives the
+ index of a finished communication (if any)
+ * New function MSG_comm_get_status(). MSG_comm_test() and MSG_comm_testany
+ only say if a communication is finished, no matter whether is succeeded or
+ failed. You can call MSG_comm_get_status() to have the status of a finished
+ communication.
+ * New function MSG_task_dsend() to send a task and detach it. When a
+ communication is detached, you are never notified of its success or failure
+ and the memory is released automatically once it is finished. This function
+ is useful when you don't care about the success nor the duration of a
+ communication.
SURF
* New model for multi-core CPUs. You can now use the core attribute to
combine Vivaldi based latencies with last-mile platforms.
Simix
- * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution.
* Introduce a new context factory "raw", highly inspirated from the
- context factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
+ ucontext factory, but using manually crafted functions in assembly to
do the work in an efficient manner.
* Allow to change the used context factory at run time, not only at
- compilation time. Use --cfg=simix/context:raw for maximal speed.
+ compilation time. Use --cfg=contexts/factory:raw for maximal speed.
+ * Add an option --cfg=contexts/stacksize:N to set the stack size of the user
+ contextes at runtime (only with raw contexts or ucontexts).
+ * Completely rewrote this module to allow parallel execution of user
+ processes. Use --cfg=contexts/nthreads:N to execute user processes
+ with N parallel threads (the default is 1, meaning no parallelism).
+ * Allow to decide dynamically between sequential and parallel modes.
+ When nthreads > 1, you can use --cfg=contexts/threshold:P to run the user
+ processes in parallel only when their number is greater than or equal to P.
XBT
* Add a new function xbt_dynar_to_array that transforms a dynar into a
