From 62c0a53a2b5b50108875f07a6dd80c528a2ea2ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Quinson Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:36:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] improve release documentation --- ChangeLog | 20 +++++++++++++------- NEWS | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 912d5dd996..5b02c163f9 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -5,16 +5,22 @@ The Sneaky Release. Python: - We are excited to introduce the SimGrid/S4U interface to your neighborhood - Not complete yet: asynchronous activities (amongst others) are still missing - - Still ongoing: the interface may change a bit in the future (please - report any glitches), but it seems rather fast and reliable already. - - Forget about Java now (and soon about C++) - -Core: - - Replace our own code to display a backtrace (that was forking addr2line) + - Still ongoing: the interface may change in the future. We need more + testers! Please report any glitches. + - No new project using Java should start now. Please switch to Python. + +General: + - Some of the internal cleanups may lead to speed improvements: + - The hard limitation on the amount of simulated actors with + Java+Mac was removed. Now, the available memory is the only limit. + - Our refcounting was tidyied, leading to 10% speedups in some cases. + - We are still working on making our code robust to the actor kills + and hosts' churn. Things are improving, but it's not perfect yet. + - Replaced our own code to display a backtrace (that was forking addr2line) with the Boost.Stacktrace library. You won't see your backtraces without this optional dependency. - Bump cmake dependency to 3.5 (provided by Ubuntu 16.04). - - Stop setting random seed with srand() at initialization. + - Stop setting random seed with srand() at initialization. XML - In and , 'availability_file' is now 'speed_file'. diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 911758ee2a..0c54a820f9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \|___ \ The Sneaky Release. - * Introducing the Python bindings (still partial) + * Introducing the Python bindings (still beta) * Doc: SMPI tutorial and platform description ported to RTD - * Further replace XBT by the std library. + * Many internal cleanups leading to some user-level speedups * (+ the classical bug fixes and internal refactorings) _ _____ ____ _ __ _____ _ __ ___(_) ___ _ __ |___ / |___ \/ | -- 2.20.1