Friday, December 30, 2011

OmniThreadLibrary 3.0

As promised, I’m releasing OmniThreadLibrary with 64-bit support today!

Get it now: ZIP, SVN, UML diagrams (provided by Rich Shealer).

If you’ll be using it in production, wait until Tuesday as I won’t be fixing any bugs over the weekend and on the Monday there is a public holiday here in Slovenia.

New features

  • Support for 64-bit platform. Great thanks to [GJ] for doing most of the work!
  • Implemented background worker abstraction, Parallel.BackgroundWorker.
  • Implemented Atomic<T> class for lock-free initialization of interfaces and objects.
    Implemented Locked<T> class for locking initialization of practically anything. [read more, more, more and more]
  • TOmniValue.AsInteger, AsString and AsWideString now work if the TOmniValue contains a Variant of the apropriate type.
  • TOmniValue can store arrays, hashes and records. [read more]
  • Added a class which can wrap any record - TOmniRecordWrapper<T>.
  • Added an interface which can wrap any object and destroy it when the interface goes out of scope - IOmniAutoDestroyObject.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed bugs in TOmniInterfaceDictionary which caused scheduled tasks not to be destroyed until the program was terminated. Great thanks to [Zarko] for providing a reproducible test case.
  • Fixed race condition between TOmniTask.Execute and TOmniTask.Terminate.
  • Under some circumstances ProcessMessage failed to rebuild handle array before waiting which could cause 'invalid handle' error.
  • Fixed wrong order in teardown sequence in TOmniTask.Execute which could cause access violation crash. Great thanks to [Anton Alisov] for providing a reproducible test case.
  • Fixed invalid "A call to an OS function failed" error in DispatchEvent.
  • TOmniMessageQueue.Enqueue leaked if queue was full and value contained reference counted value (found by [meishier]).
  • Number of producers/consumers in TOmniForkJoin<T>.StartWorkerTasks was off by 1 (found by [meishier]).

New demos

  • 49_FramedWorkers: Multiple frames communication with each own worker task.
  • 50_OmniValueArray: Wrapping arrays, hashes and records in TOmniValue.
  • 51_PipelineStressTest: Stress test by [Anton Alisov].
  • 52_BackgrondWorker: Demo for the new Parallel.BackgroundWorker abstraction.

4 comments:

  1. Rico12:13

    Congratulations to this new major release!
    I wish your family and you all the best for the new year.

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  2. Leslie11:41

    I keep coming back to check on the progress of OTL. It is a very-very promising project. I did some simple tests earlier for the win32 platform, but what I am really hoping for is IOS and Android support. We need a single codebase for the none visual parts of the projects for all platforms. I know 64bit support is just out and it is probalby rest time now, but if there are any plans about other plaforms for OTL I would be glad to read about them. :)

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  3. Soon to come: FireMonkey support.
    Next: OS/X support.
    Not in the near future: iOS support.

    The problem with iOS (besides that I have no idea if it supports multithreading at all) is that OTL uses many language features that are not supported in FreePascal, which is used to compile Delphi iOS applications.

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  4. Leslie12:44

    I doubt there is any OS still being developed without threading. IOS defenetely depends on it.

    I clearly did not think my question through. The incompatibilities of freepascal are obviously a showstopper. Once the Delphi IOS compiler will be ready porting will hopefully be much less work.

    Thanks

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