RcppThread 2.2.0

What's Changed

NEW FEATURE

• Added RMatrix class (from the RcppParallel package) to allow
  for thread safe access to R matrices (#74, thanks @rorynolan).

BUG FIX

• Enable check for standalone libatomic on Windows. by @kalibera in #72
• Fixed compilation warning about R_NO_REMAP being defined multiple times
  (#77, thanks @tylermorganwall)

Full Changelog: v2.1.5...v2.2.0

RcppThread 2.1.5

REQUIREMENTS

• Remove Systemrequirements: C++11

BUG FIX

• Fixes static lifetime issue on MacM1.

• Fixes order of headers in detectCores.cpp.

RcppThread 2.1.2

NEW FEATURE

• R function LdFlags() to portably generate linker flags for libatomic/pthread. See README for details.

RcppThread 2.1.0

NEW FEATURE

• safe printing to the R error stream with RcppThread::Rcerr (#60, thanks to @appelmar).

BUG FIX

• adapt thread affinity to possibly restricted CPU set (#61).

RcppThread 2.0.1

BUG FIX

• safeguard construction of memory aligned objects.

RcppThread 2.0.0

NEW FEATURES

• Add R function detectCores() (#48).

• Add classes ProgressCounter and ProgressBar for tracking progress in long-
  running loops (#49).

• Increased speed due to work-stealing and lock-free pops (#51, #52, #53).

• Free-standing parallelFor() and parallelForEach() functions now dispatch
  to a global thread pool that persists for the entire session. This
  significantly speeds up programs that repeatedly call these functions. (#54)

• New free-standing push(), pushReturn()/async(), and wait(), mirroring
  functionality from ThreadPool. (#56)

• Option to resize a thread pool (#56).

RcppThread 1.0.0

• Release for JSS publication doi:10.18637/jss.v097.c01.

RcppThread 0.5.4

BUG FIX

• Fixed warning for move constructor in ThreadPool (#35, #36, thanks @asardaes for noticing).

RcppThread 0.5.3

• Improved handling of exceptions thrown from threads.

RcppThread 0.5.2

• Limit number of threads in unit tests.

• Fixed typos in package vignette.