I found a way to keep eo_add() the way it was and gracefully degrade to
a portable (but not as fast) solution for compilers that don't support
the compound macros returning a value gnu extension: ({int a; a;}).
I'm reverting these changes now, and I'll introduce the fallback as soon
as I can.
This reverts commit b85bb37183.
Reverting this at Felipe's request following my email. There are many
things I strongly object to in this commit. I've touched the surface of
those on the ML (which doesn't work at the moment), though we need to
better discuss it.
The gist:
1. dlsym is a really bad hack that is not even needed.
2. I don't see why eo should even be aware of promises. It's not aware
of list, hash and etc.
3. The eolian changes were done wrong.
This should have been discussed and consulted before done, even if only
because of the amount of hacks it includes and the cross-domain (ecore,
eo and eolian) nature of it.
This reverts commit f9ba80ab33.
Imagine this. You have an object. You pass this object handle as a
message to another thread. Let's say it's not a UI object, so
something you might expect to be able to be accessed from multiple
threads. In order to keep the object alive you eo_ref() it when
placing the message on a queue and eo_unref() it once the message is
"done" in the other thread. If the original sender unref()ed the
object before the message is done, then the object will be destroyed
in the reciever thread. This is bad for objects "expecting" not to be
destroyed outside their owning thread.
This allows thius situation to be fixed. A constructor in a class of
an object can set up a delete interceptor. For example if we have a
"loop ownership" class you multi-ple-inherit from/use as a mixin. This
class will set up the interceptor to ensure that on destruction if
pthread_self() != owning loop thread id, then add object to "delete
me" queue on the owning loop and wake it up. the owning loop thread
will wake up and then process this queue and delete the queued objects
nicely and safely within the "owning context".
This can also be used in this same manner to defer deletion within a
loop "until later" in the same delete_me queue.
You can even use this as a caching mechanism for objects to prevernt
their actual destruction and instead place them in a cached area to be
picked from at a later date.
The uses are many for this and this is a basic building block for
future EFL features like generic messages where a message payload
could be an eo object and thus the above loop onwership issue can
happen and needs fixing.
This adds APIs, implementation, documentation (doxy reference) and tests.
@feature
Add a promise object that allows Eolian interface to include promises
as a way to have asynchronous value return and composibility.
The usage is like this in a .eo file:
class Foo {
methods {
bar {
params {
promise: Promise<int>;
}
}
}
}
Which will create the following API interface:
void foo_bar(Ecore_Promise** promise);
and the equivalent declaration for implementation.
However, the API function will instantiate the Promise for the
user and the implementer of the class.
The syntax is described in: https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/eo/
Summary:
eo_do(obj, a_set(1)) -> a_set(obj, 1)
eo_do_super(obj, CLASS, a_set(1)) -> a_set(eo_super(obj, CLASS), 1)
eo_do_*_ret() set of functions are no longer needed.
This is the first step, the next step would be to also fix up eo_add()
which currently still uses the old syntax and is not 100% portable.
@feature
Change the Eo event callback signature to what suggested by Marcel
Hollerbach in the ML (Thread: EFL interface change - Animator).
This changes the signature of callbacks from
Eina_Bool cb(void *data, Eo *obj const Eo_Event_Description *desc, void *event_info)
to
Eina_Bool cb(void *data, const Eo_Event *event)
Where Eo_Event is a structure that holds these parameters.
This makes it less annoying to not use parameters (you end up using
EINA_UNUSED less), and allows for future extensions to callback
parameters.
@feature
Until now it wasn't allowed/possible to init (eo_init) eo after it has
been shut down (eo_shutdown). This commit fixes that, so now that is
fully legal to have as many init/shutdown cycles as you want.
There was a previous workaround for this issue:
e47edc250d.
This should allow more flexibility when using the EFL in loadable
modules and in various other scenarios.
The problem is that the class_get() functions cache the previously
created class for efficiency, but the class is freed if eo is shut down,
so the cached pointer is actually invalid.
The solution to the problem was to maintain a generation count
(incremented every time we shut down eo), and compare that to a locally
saved version in class_get(). If they don't match, recreate the class,
as it has already been freed.
@feature
To configure efl sources with bindings to use in nodejs add ––with-js=nodejs in configure flags to generate node files
$ configure --with-js=nodejs
and compile normally with:
$ make
$ make install
To use, you have to require efl:
efl = require('efl')
The bindings is divided in two parts: generated and manually
written. The generation uses the Eolian library for parsing Eo files
and generate C++ code that is compiled against V8 interpreter library
to create a efl.node file that can be required in a node.js instance.
@feature
we pass both the callcache and the op id - both are static and filled
in at runtime, so merge them into the same struct. this should lead to
better alignment/padding with the offset array and the next slot and
op fields, probably saving about 4-8 bytes of rame per method with no
downsides. also pass in only cache ptr, not both cache ptr and opid -
less passing of stuff around and should be better.
so. clang is wrong. end of story. it complains that i should add
braces to:
static Eo_Call_Cache ___callcache = { 0 };
WRONG. that is correct c99. 100%. you can add more {}'s and init every
field separately like {{0},{0},{0}} etc. or make it 1 or any value -
it doesn't matter... clang complains. clang is wrong. plain and
simple. this warning should just never exist. it is pointless.
but... peolpe won't shut up about clang warnings until i "fool" clang
into being silent by assuming the default 0 value of static storage.
this silences clang
BEWARE! this breaks eo ABI. _eo_call_resolve and _eo_data_scope_get
are 2 of the biggest cpu users in eo. they easily consume like 10-15%
cpu between them on tests that drive a lot of api - like simply
scrolling a genlist around. this is a lot of overhead for efl. this
fixes that to make them far leaner. In fact this got an overall 10%
cpu usage drop and that includes all of the actual rendering, and code
work, so this would drop the eo overhead of these functions incredibly
low. using this much cpu just on doing call marshalling is a bug and
thus - this is a fix, but ... with an abi break to boot. more abi
breaks may happen before release to try and get them all in this
release so we don't have to do them again later.
note i actually tested 4, 3, 2, and 1 cache slots, and 1 was the
fastest. 2 was very close behind and then it got worse. all were
better than with no cache though.
benchmark test method:
export ELM_ENGINE=gl
export ELM_TEST_AUTOBOUNCE=1
while [ 1 ]; do sync; sync; sync; time elementary_test -to genlist;
sleep 1; done
take the 2nd to the 8th results (7 runs) and total up system and user
time. copmpare this to the same without the cache. with the cache cpu
time used is 90.3% of the cpu time used without - thus a win. at least
in my tests.
@fix
This causes a significant speed up (around 10% here) and is definitely
worth it. The way it's done lets the compiler cache the value across
different eo_do calls, and across the parts of eo_do. Start and end.
This breaks ABI.
This breaks ABI in a harmless way, and it will give us the ability to
drastically improve Eo in the future without breaking ABI again, thus
allowing us to declare Eo stable for this release if we choose to.
My previous patch to this piece of code
(37f84b7e96), caused a significant
performance regression. This is such a hot path, that even accessing the
strings when we don't have to slows things down drastically. It makes
more sense to just store it in the structure.
This commit breaks ABI (though most people probably won't even need to
recompile anything else because of the memory layout).
It was discussed on IRC and was decided this is a big enough issue to
warrant a fix during the freeze.
@fix
Commit 37f84b7e96 introduced a few changes
to the callback matching mechanism that made it so sometimes callbacks
would be triggered for the wrong events. The problem was there because
of the support for legacy events that forces to do string comparison
instead of the usual pointer comparison. We should only do string
comparison when we are certain one of the callbacks is a legacy
generated one.
Regression tests will follow tomorrow. Way too late here for that.
Thanks to cedric for reporting.
As described by Carsten in his email to edev ML titled:
"[E-devel] eo stability - i think we need to postpone that"
with the switch to Eo2 we significantly increased our usage of RW memory
pages, and thus significantly increased our memory usage when running
multiple applications.
The problem was that during the migration to Eo2 the op id cache and the
op description arrays were merged, causing the op description arrays to
no longer be RO. This patch enables users of Eo (mainly Eolian) to
declare those arrays as const (RO) again, saving that memory.
There might be performance implications with this patch. I had to remove
the op desc array sorting, and I used a hash table for the lookup. I
think the op desc sorting doesn't really affect performance because that
array is seldom accessed and is usually pretty short. The hash table
is not a problem either, because it's behind the scenes, so it can be
changed to a more efficient data structure if the hash table is not good
enough. The hash table itself is also rarely accessed, so it's mostly
about memory.
Please keep an eye for any bugs, performance or excessive memory usage.
I believe this should be better on all fronts.
This commit *BREAKS ABI*.
@fix
The old naming is inconsistent with the rest of the EFL. This fixes that.
Since we are already breaking ABI (and possibly API), we should fix this too.
This hasn't been used for a while. Since we are going to break Eo a bit anyway
it's a good opportunity to drop this.
This may cause a slight performance issues with legacy events, such as
smart callbacks. This shouldn't really be a problem as we've migrated away from
them. If it does, we need to migrate the remaining parts. Only relevant
for callbacks that are added before the classes are created, which
shouldn't be possible except for smart, only for old evas callbacks.
This is heavily based on a patch by Vincent Torri. I just refactored it
a bit so it doesn't break ABI on Linux, only on Windows (where it was
broken anyway).
This patch changes things so on Windows, functions are looked up only
based on their name. Because of the indirection (and export/import
tables) windows does, this is the only reasonable way to make it work.
This was not really useful and against the Eolian guidelines.
While I promised I won't break things until the 27th, I was ill
(still am), so I'm giving myself a 1 day pass. :P
This is another cleanup in perparation for the Eo stable release.
This is no longer needed thanks to the proper error reporting with
eo_constructor()'s new return value.
The finalizer change cleans it up a bit so it catches more cases/issues.
This also means that the finalizer cleans up the object in all cases,
and not only some.
@feature.
From now on, constructors should return a value, usually the object
being worked on, or NULL (if the constructor failed). This can also
be used for implementing singletons, by just always returning the same
object from the constructor.
This is one of the final steps towards stabilizing Eo.
@feature
This is a convenience macro to be used by the common pattern of getting
a part and then immediately calling functions on it. For example,
without this macro, you'd have to write code like:
Eo *part;
eo_do(obj, part = efl_part_name_get("partname"));
eo_do(part, a_set(7));
while using the helper function trims it to:
eo_do_part(obj, efl_part_name_get("partname"), a_set(7));
@feature
This is following a last review and a discussion on IRC. Eo has been
stable (apart of a decision a few months ago to support more compilers)
for a long while. Developers are already using it for a while, and it's
stupid to break it for them anyway, so we might as well make this
promise now. There are no plans to change it anymore, and it's been
heavily used and tested throughout the EFL for a few releases now.
I'm tagging it as a feature, although it's not, I'm doing it for the
automatic changelog generation. :)
@feature.
As discussed on IRC and ML. We are in a feature freeze phase, and this
patch is not essential. Furthermore, this patch was never discussed.
This reverts commit 537c7fe9e3.
Summary: Had a chat with raster to understand the behavior of these two functions in the IRC. Thought it might be helpful if added in the documentation itself. So updated it accordingly.
Reviewers: cedric
Subscribers: cedric
Differential Revision: https://phab.enlightenment.org/D2083
Signed-off-by: Cedric BAIL <cedric@osg.samsung.com>
This affects eo_do() and eo_add() that used to use the ({}) GCCism.
Following a discussion with Peter de Ridder after my talk at FOSDEM,
we've decided to reopen the GCCism (works with other gcc compatible
compilers like clang and intelc) discussion, and after a bit of back and
forth it was decided to make things more portable, at the cost of ease
of use.
For example:
if (eo_do(obj, visible_get()))
is no longer allowed, the portable alternative
Eina_Bool tmp;
if (eo_do_ret(obj, tmp, visible_get()))
is to be used instead.
However:
eo_do(obj, a = a_get(), b = b_get(), bool_set(!bool_get))
are still allowed and OK.
eo_do(obj, if (a_get()) return;);
is no longer allowed, but:
eo_do(obj, if (a_get()) something());
is still allowed.
For clarity, this commit only incorporates the Eo changes, and not the
EFL changes to make the efl conform with this change.
Thanks again to Peter de Ridder for triggering this important discussion
which led to this change.
Tom Hacohen
Carsten Haitzler
Felipe Magno de Almeida
Jean-Philippe Andre
Thiep Ha
Cedric BAIL
Jaehwan Kim
Srivardhan Hebbar
Daniel Zaoui