lanes version 3.2.0

* keeper internals implemented in C instead of Lua for better performances
* fixed arguments checks in linda:limit() and linda:set()

ABOUT

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Lua Lanes
 ---------
 
 Lanes is a lightweight, native, lazy evaluating multithreading library for 
-Lua 5.1. It allows efficient use of multicore processors in Lua, by passing
+Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2. It allows efficient use of multicore processors in Lua, by passing
 function calls into separate OS threads, and separate Lua states.
 
 No locking of the threads is needed, only launching and waiting for (with an

CHANGES

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 CHANGES:
 
+CHANGE 45: BGe 21-Aug-2012
+   * keeper internals implemented in C instead of Lua for better performances
+   * fixed arguments checks in linda:limit() and linda:set()
+
 CHANGE 44: BGe 13-Aug-2012
    * lanes code updated to build against Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2
    * removed the search for MSVCR80.DLL when building for MinGW32 since it no longer seems to be necessary

COPYRIGHT

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ For details and rationale, see http://www.lua.org/license.html
 ===============================================================================
 
 Copyright (C) 2007-11 Asko Kauppi, <akauppi@gmail.com>
-Copyright (C) 2010-11 Benoit Germain, <bnt.germain@gmail.com>
+Copyright (C) 2010-12 Benoit Germain, <bnt.germain@gmail.com>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

Makefile

@@ -197,11 +197,10 @@ LUA_SHAREDIR=$(DESTDIR)/share/lua/5.1
 #
 # AKa 17-Oct: changed to use 'install -m 644' and 'cp -p'
 #
-install: $(_TARGET_SO) src/lanes.lua src/lanes-keeper.lua
+install: $(_TARGET_SO) src/lanes.lua
 	mkdir -p $(LUA_LIBDIR) $(LUA_LIBDIR)/lanes $(LUA_SHAREDIR)
 	install -m 644 $(_TARGET_SO) $(LUA_LIBDIR)/lanes
 	cp -p src/lanes.lua $(LUA_SHAREDIR)
-	cp -p src/lanes-keeper.lua $(LUA_SHAREDIR)
 
 
 #--- Packaging ---

docs/index.html

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 <p><br/><font size="-1"><i>Copyright &copy; 2007-12 Asko Kauppi, Benoit Germain. All rights reserved.</i>
     <br>Lua Lanes is published under the same <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License">MIT license</A> as Lua 5.1 and 5.2.
-    </p><p>This document was revised on 13-Aug-12, and applies to version 3.1.6
+    </p><p>This document was revised on 21-Aug-12, and applies to version 3.2.0
 </font></p>
 
 </center>
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ <h2 id="installing">Building and Installing</h2>
 details and limitations.
 </p>
 
-<p>To install Lanes, all you need are the <tt>lanes.lua</tt> <tt>lanes-keeper.lua</tt> and <tt>lanes/core.so|dll</tt>
+<p>To install Lanes, all you need are the <tt>lanes.lua</tt> and <tt>lanes/core.so|dll</tt>
 files to be reachable by Lua (see LUA_PATH, LUA_CPATH).
 
 Or use <A HREF="http://www.luarocks.org" TARGET="_blank">Lua Rocks</A> package management.
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ <h3 id="performance">Performance considerations</h3>
     <li>Lindas are hashed to a fixed number of "keeper states", which are a locking entity.
     If you are using a lot of Linda objects,
     it may be useful to try having more of these keeper states. By default,
-    only one is used (see <tt>KEEPER_STATES_N</tt>), but this is an implementation detail.
+    only one is used (see <tt>lanes.configure()</tt>).
     </li>
 </ul>
 </p>