* Support for Weak pointers.
* RefCnt implemented for Rc.
* Breaking: Big API cleanups.
- Peek is gone.
- Terminology of getting the data unified to `load`.
- There's only one kind of `Guard` now.
- Guard derefs to the `Arc`/`Option<Arc>` or similar.
- `Cache` got moved to top level of the crate.
- Several now unneeded semi-internal traits and trait methods got removed.
* Splitting benchmarks into a separate sub-crate.
* Minor documentation improvements.
# 0.3.11
* Prevention against UB due to dropping Guards and overflowing the guard
counter (aborting instead, such problem is very degenerate anyway and wouldn't
work in the first place).
# 0.3.10
* Tweak slot allocation to take smaller performance hit if some leases are held.
* Increase the number of lease slots per thread to 8.
* Added a cache for faster access by keeping an already loaded instance around.
# 0.3.9
* Fix Send/Sync for Guard and Lease (they were broken in the safe but
uncomfortable direction ‒ not implementing them even if they could).
# 0.3.8
* `Lease<Option<_>>::unwrap()`, `expect()` and `into_option()` for convenient
use.
# 0.3.7
* Use the correct `#[deprecated]` syntax.
# 0.3.6
* Another locking store (`PrivateSharded`) to complement the global and private
unsharded ones.
* Comparison to other crates/approaches in the docs.
# 0.3.5
* Updates to documentation, made it hopefully easier to digest.
* Added the ability to separate gen-locks of one ArcSwapAny from others.
* Some speed improvements by inlining.
* Simplified the `lease` method internally, making it faster in optimistic
cases.
# 0.3.4
* Another potentially weak ordering discovered (with even less practical effect
than the previous).
# 0.3.3
* Increased potentially weak ordering (probably without any practical effect).
# 0.3.2
* Documentation link fix.
# 0.3.1
* Few convenience constructors.
* More tests (some randomized property testing).
# 0.3.0
* `compare_and_swap` no longer takes `&Guard` as current as that is a sure way
to create a deadlock.
* Introduced `Lease` for temporary storage, which doesn't suffer from contention
like `load`, but doesn't block writes like `Guard`. The downside is it slows
down with number of held by the current thread.
* `compare_and_swap` and `rcu` uses leases.
* Made the `ArcSwap` as small as the pointer itself, by making the
shards/counters and generation ID global. This comes at a theoretical cost of
more contention when different threads use different instances.
# 0.2.0
* Added an `ArcSwapOption`, which allows storing NULL values (as None) as well
as a valid pointer.
* `compare_and_swap` accepts borrowed `Arc` as `current` and doesn't consume one
ref count.
* Sharding internal counters, to improve performance on read-mostly contented
scenarios.
* Providing `peek_signal_safe` as the only async signal safe method to use
inside signal handlers. This removes the footgun with dropping the `Arc`
returned from `load` inside a signal handler.
# 0.1.4
* The `peek` method to use the `Arc` inside without incrementing the reference
count.
* Some more (and hopefully better) benchmarks.
# 0.1.3
* Documentation fix (swap is *not* lock-free in current implementation).
# 0.1.2
* More freedom in the `rcu` and `rcu_unwrap` return types.
# 0.1.1
* `rcu` support.
* `compare_and_swap` support.
* Added some primitive benchmarks.
# 0.1.0
* Initial implementation.