Fibers NEWS

Fibers is a facility that provides Go-like concurrency for Guile Scheme.

fibers 1.1.0 -- 2022-01-31
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* Destroy peer schedulers when returning from run-fibers.

* Handle EPOLLHUP like EPOLLERR.

* Don't use deprecated types scm_t_uint64 and scm_t_int64.

* Garbage collect synchronized items from channels queues.

* Added guix.scm for local development.

* Improve fibers performance by installing "catch" in scheduler instead of in
  the fiber itself.

* Rebased fibers on top of lighter-weight "tasks".

* Garbage collect old condition waiters.

* Multiple documentation fixes and improvements.

* Added benchmarks.

* Support Guile 3.0 compilation.

fibers 1.0.0 -- 2017-02-20
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* See git log.

fibers 0.5.0 -- 2017-01-19
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* Add parallelism support, with both work stealing and explicit work
  sharing.  Enabled by default.

* Allow channel sends and receives and other Concurrent ML-like
  operations to be performed from outside of fibers.

* Enable preemption by default.

fibers 0.4.0 -- 2016-12-16
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* Added preemption support; see `run-fibers' documentation in the
  manual for more.

* Documented REPL commands and examples.

* Documented more pitfalls.

* Use `suspendable-continuation?' if present.

* Fibers each have their own dynamic state.

fibers 0.3.0 -- 2016-10-12
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* See git log.

fibers 0.2.0 -- 2016-09-11
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* See git log.

fibers 0.1.0 -- 2016-07-02
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* First release.


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