UpStare 0.12.9

The program code and the program state are updated immediately in a single step.

It is not necessary to wait indefinitely for a quiescent program state. A running algorithm can be updated midstream its execution and resumed from a different point (not necessarily the beginning) of another algorithm.


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Here are some key features of "UpStare":

Recursion:

· Updating an application recursively computing Fibonacci numbers, while nested deep in the stack, to report additional information when the recursion unwinds.

Network Sockets:

· Updating a server application while serving multiple clients without closing the network socket.

Multi-threaded Applications:

· Updating the main function body executed by multiple threads of an application. Also, updating in a producer/consumer multi-threaded application only the consumer threads while the producer threads remained unmodified.

Multi-nested Long-Lived Loops:

· Updating in the middle of executing Bubblesort, a multi-nested long-lived loop, to continue executing from the middle of a different multi-nested long-lived loop implementing Selectionsort while reusing the existing program state. Additionally, updating from Bubblesort to Heapsort, which is a drastically different sorting algorithm executing over different loop iterators.

vsFTPd:

· Updating the multi-process (forked processes do not communicate) vsFTPd 2.0.4 server while serving 50 clients.

PostgreSQL:

· Updating the multi-process (forked processes communicate) PostgreSQL 7.4.16 database server while serving 50 clients.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· This version was compiled with debugging statements disabled for performance.
· Parts of the documentation on preparing dynamic updates were corrected.