Next Release Status / New Features

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Introduction

A list of new features present in the next release.

New Features

  • 7th June 2016 - fixed missing LFDS720_PAL_ATOMIC_DWCAS macro for GCC >= 4.1.2 to GCC < 4.7.3.
  • 7th June 2016 - first pass at ARM64 support.
  • 10th June 2016 - new data structure, unbounded single producer single consumer queue
  • 10th June 2016 - libtest is *almost* now bare C89 (one use of bsearch and one use of qsort)
  • 10th June 2016 - now have an x86 Windows XP VM, for running test and benchmark
  • 1st August 2016 - IA64 support on Windows for DWCAS data structures (freelist, stack, ringbuffer, queue (unbounded, many, many))
  • 3rd August 2016 - SMR back in, along with SMR freelist, queue (unbounded, many, many) and stack
  • 8th October 2016 - ARM64 support for GCC 4.6.0 and later
  • 10th October 2016 - freelist and stack support singlethreaded (non-atomic) operations
  • 1st December 2016 - added unbounded, single/single queue
  • 1st December 2016 - added epoch based garbage collection
  • 1st January 2017 - added hazard pointer based garbage collection

=In Progress

  • 1th Feb 2017 - adding ordered singly-linked list