mkit 0.4.0

Mkit is a collection of traits, utilities and common useful types required to build distributed, peer-to-peer applications.

• cbor, Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) implementation.
• thread, a Thread type for multi-threading associated channel types for inter-process-communication.
• spinlock, for non-blocking read-write locking using atomic load/store/cas.
• traits for data, Diff.
• types for db, Entry, Value, Delta, Cutoff.
• traits for db, BuildIndex, Bloom.
• xor-filter, implement Bloom trait for xorfilter type.

Useful links

• xorfilter by Daniel Lemire.
• Wiki link on spinlock.
• RFC specification for CBOR.

Contribution

• Simple workflow. Fork - Modify - Pull request.
• Before creating a PR,
  • Run make build to confirm all versions of build is passing with 0 warnings and 0 errors.
  • Run check.sh with 0 warnings, 0 errors and all testcases passing.
  • Run perf.sh with 0 warnings, 0 errors and all testcases passing.
  • Install and run cargo spellcheck to remove common spelling mistakes.
• Developer certificate of origin is preferred.