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diff --git a/system/doc/top/highlights.xml b/system/doc/top/highlights.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 251bb1a47d..0000000000 --- a/system/doc/top/highlights.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,110 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> -<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> - -<chapter> - <header> - <copyright> - <year>2006</year><year>2010</year> - <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> - </copyright> - <legalnotice> - The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, - Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in - compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the - Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be - retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. - - Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" - basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See - the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations - under the License. - - </legalnotice> - - <title>Highlights</title> - <prepared></prepared> - <docno></docno> - <date></date> - <rev>A</rev> - <file>highlights.xml</file> - </header> - <p>This document lists some highlights of Erlang 5.8/OTP R14A - (unpatched), compared to the previous version Erlang 5.7.1/OTP R13B, - with focus on things not already released as R13B patches.</p> - <p>Note: This document was compiled at the time when R14A was released - and does not list any features introduced in R14 patches.</p> - - <section> - <title>Erlang Language and Run-time System</title> - <section> - <title>New NIF features</title> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item><p>Send messages from a NIF, or from thread created by NIF, to - any local process (enif_send)</p></item> - - <item><p>Store terms between NIF calls (enif_alloc_env, - enif_make_copy)</p></item> - - <item><p>Create binary terms with user defined memory management - (enif_make_resource_binary)</p></item> - - <item><p>Some incompatible changes made to the API. For more - information see the warning text in erl_nif(3).</p></item> - </list> - </section> - <section> - <title>Receive optimizations</title> - <p>Receive statements that can only read out a newly created - reference are now specially optimized so that it will execute - in constant time regardless of the number of messages in the - receive queue for the process. That optimization will benefit - calls to gen_server:call(). (See gen:do_call/4 for an example - of a receive statement that will be optimized.)</p> - </section> - <section> - <title>Improved eprof</title> - <p>eprof has been reimplemented with support in the Erlang - virtual machine and is now both faster (i.e. slows down the - code being measured less) and scales much better. In - measurements we saw speed-ups compared to the old eprof - ranging from 6 times (for sequential code that only uses one - scheduler/core) up to 84 times (for parallel code that uses 8 - cores).</p> - - <p>Note: The API for the eprof has been cleaned up and extended. - See the documentation.</p> - </section> - </section> - <section> - <title>New features in Existing Applications</title> - - <section> - <title>Common_test</title> - - <p> - It is now possible for the user to provide specific callback - modules that handle test configuration data, so that data on - arbitray form can be accessed (e.g. by reading files or by - communicating with a configuration server process). Two - default callback modules have been introduced in Common Test: - ct_config_plain and ct_config_xml. The former is used to - handle the traditional Common Test configuration files (with - terms on key-value tuple form) and the latter to handle - configuration data on XML representation. - </p> - <p> - The run_test script has been replaced by a program (with the - same name) which can be executed without explicit - installation. The start flags are the same as for the legacy - start script. - </p> - </section> - <section> - <title>STDLIB</title> - <p> - The module binary from EEP31 (and EEP9) is implemented. - </p> - </section> - </section> -</chapter> - |