From 501e8e467a4c2f724dd427a404406b2e476ed127 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sudha Parimala Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:10:15 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Update Changes and README --- CHANGES.md | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ README.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 CHANGES.md diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58a5256 --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +## v0.5.0 + +This release includes: + +* Bug fix for `parallel_for_reduce` on empty loops. +* Make Chan.t and Task.promise injective #69 +* Add lockfree dependency #70 +* CI fixes (#73, #76) +* Breaking change: Rename `num_additional_domains` to `num_domains` for setup_pool +* Documentation updates (#80, #81, #82) + +## v0.4.2 + +Includes Effect.eff -> Effect.t change from OCaml trunk. (#65) + +## v0.4.1 + +This release fixes compatibility with OCaml 5.00.0+trunk in #61. Breaks compatibility with older Multicore variants 4.12.0+domains and 4.12.0+domains+effects + +## v0.4.0 + +This release includes: + +* Usage of effect handlers for task creation. This introduces a breaking change; all computations need to be enclosed in a Task.run function. See #51. +* Multi_channel uses a per-channel domain-local key, removing the global key. #50 +* Bug fixes in parallel_scan. #60 + +## v0.3.2 + +Corresponding updates for breaking changes introduced in ocaml-multicore/ocaml-multicore#704 + +* Updated with the new interface Domain.cpu_relax +* Domain.timer_ticks replaced with Mirage clock. + +## v0.3.1 + +* #45 adds support for named pools. This is a breaking change with setup_pool taking an optional name parameter and an extra unit parameter. +* A minor bug fix in parallel_for_reduce. + +## v0.3.0 + +This release includes: + +* A breaking change for Task pools where the num_domains argument has been renamed num_additional_domains to clear up potential confusion; see #31. +* A new work-stealing scheduler for Task pools using domain local Chase Lev deques #29; this can improve performance significantly for some workloads. +* A removal of closure allocation in Chan #28. +* A move to using the Mutex & Condition modules for the implementation of Chan #24. +* Various documentation and packaging improvements (#21, #27, #30, #32). + +## v0.2.2 + +Updates to: + +* parallel_for to use new task distribution algorithm and allow default chunk_size (#16) +* parallel_for_reduce to use new task distribution algorithm and allow default chunk_size parameter (#18) + +## v0.2.1 + +* `recv_poll` made non-allocating +* Addition of parallel_scan #5 + +## v0.2.0 + +* New Tasks library with support for async/await parallelism and parallel for loops. +* Adds support for non-blocking Chan.send_poll and Chan.recv_poll. + +Thanks to @gasche for API design discussions. + +## v0.1.0 + +Initial release \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 32c23e0..78a7319 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ let rec fib_par pool n = fib n let main () = - let pool = T.setup_pool ~num_additional_domains:(num_domains - 1) () in + let pool = T.setup_pool ~num_domains:(num_domains - 1) () in let res = T.run pool (fun _ -> fib_par pool n) in T.teardown_pool pool; Printf.printf "fib(%d) = %d\n" n res