Should make janet a bit easier to use. Also changes the
header to not expose the size of native mutexes and rwlocks, except
with janet_os_mutex_size and janet_os_rwlock_size.
Note that this is a work in progress and simply a first attempt at
getting some code into place before being able to test it. This code
follows of sorts both the poll and epoll sections of the codebase hoping
to achieve the exact same.
Some pointer casting with abstract types was incorrect, resulting
in strange behavior when trying to use supervisor channels that were
threaded. This fix also adds the ability to supply a supervisor channel
directly when creating a thread.
Introduces close semtantics to channels as well, but otherwise
threaded channels behave much like non-threaded channels. They have
different marshalling behavior though, and can only send values over by
packing and unpacking them. For now, this means only primitive values
although this will be expanded.
Also missing some implementation for closing threaded channels, and a
whole lot of testing. Achtung!, Caveat emptor, here be dragons and bugs.
janet_loop1_interrupt makes the event loop compatible
with safe interruptions for custom scheduling. Does this by exposing
custom events on the event loop. A custom event schedules a function pointer
to run in a way that can interrupt
epoll_wait/poll/GetQueuedCompletionStatus.
This would allow an embedder to suspend the current Janet fiber
via an external event like a signal, other thread, or really anything.
This is a useful primitive for custom schedulers that would call
janet_interpreter_interupt periodically (say, in an interval with SIG_ALRM),
do some work, and then use janet_continue on the janet_root_fiber, or
for embedding into other soft-realtime applications like a game. To say,
only allow about 5ms per frame of interpreter time.
This is mainly meant for use as the entry point to a C wrapper for a
janet program. This maeans the programmer doesn't need to use an ifdef
to handle if the event loop is enabled.
This is the beginning of a system for compiler warnings. This includes
linting, deprecation notices, and other compiler warnings that are best
detected by the `compile` function and don't require the partial
evalutaion of the flychecker.
The (undef rule :tag) combinator lets a user "scope" tagged captures.
After the rule has matched, all captures with tag :tag can no longer be
refered to by their tag. However, such captures from outside
rule are kept as is. If no tag is given, all tagged captures from rule
are unreferenced. Note that this doesn't `drop` the captures, merely
removes their association with the tag. This means subsequent calls to
`backref` and `backmatch` will no longer "see" these tagged captures.
When new fibers are scheduled on the event loop, this new_channel
receives the newly created fibers. This lets a fiber track which fibers
have been added and let's a user implement a supervisor.
Fix formatting.
Supervisor channels are a simple concept to more efficiently
enable dynamic, structure concurrency. When a top-level fiber
completes (or errors), it will push itself to it's supervisor
channel if it has one (instead of printing a stacktrace). This
let's another fiber poll a channel and "supervise" a set of fibers.
Keep a separate stack for tagged references. May cause pegs to
use more memory but makes the backref and backmatch features much more
powerful.
Also disables the second stack if backref and backmatch are not used in the peg.
These capture the line and column number of the current position
in the matched text. This is useful for error reporting as well
as indentation checking.
This works by lazily creating an index on first use that stores all
newline character indices in order. We can then do a binary search on
this to get both line number and column number in log(n) time.
This is good enough for most use cases and doesn't slow down the common case at all
- these will not be commonly used patterns in a hot loop so it is not worth to try and
optimize this at all. Constant time look up should be possible but at
the cost of complicating code and slowing down all matching to check for
new lines.
This also changes the api of servers slightly -
in light of having support for ev tasks, it is probably better
to remove the "simple" server code and replace it with some Janet
or remove it all together. While convenient, it has issues with error
handling and rigidity.
The macro janet_checktype(x, JANET_NUMBER) was incorrect when
x was NaN. This caused the initial unmarshalling dictionary to be missing
entries in certain cases.
