The synchronization result of a log receiver is now a vector of four
values, instead of three, where the last one reports the name.
Also, an optional argument to `make-logger' provides a notification
callback for each event sent to the logger.
These changes enable more control over loggers and events. Suppose
that you have processes A and B, and you want all log events of A
to be visible to B, but not vice-versa. Furthermore, you want the
log events to appear at B in the right order: if A logs an event
before B, then A's event should arrive at a log receiver's before
B's. Now that a log receiver gets the name associated with the
original event, and now that the name can be re-sent in a
`log-receiver', it's possible to give A and B separate loggers and
send all of the events from A's logger to B's logger. Furthermore,
you can use the notification callback so that when an event is logged
in B, you can make sure that all available events from from A's
logger have been transferred to B's logger.
Put the details consistently with event datatypes, instead
of trying to put them all in `sync', which better reflects
the extensibility of the set of synchronizable events.
A phantom byte string is a small object that the memory
manager treats as an arbitrary-sized object, where the
size is specified when the phantom byte string is created
or or when size is changed via `set-phantom-bytes!'.
Allowing them would require support for immutable fxvectors and
flvectors, interning, and more. Since the motivation for reader
support is to make marshaling and unmarshaling easier, allow
them only in `read' mode. Change printing to make then unquotable.
For example, the cross-reference information for the
Reference is now broken into about 16 pieces, so that
resolving a cross-reference into the Reference doesn't
require loading all cross-reference information for
the Reference.
Every document is split into two pieces, so that the title
of a document is roughly in its own piece. That way,
re-building the page of all installed documentation can be more
scalable (after some further changes).
Also, log a warning when it is used in a position where it
doesn't work rght with the executable creator. I didn't make
this case an error, because `define-runtime-path' can still
work in that case as long as no standalone executable needs
to be created.
I started from tabs that are not on the beginning of lines, and in
several places I did further cleanings.
If you're worried about knowing who wrote some code, for example, if you
get to this commit in "git blame", then note that you can use the "-w"
flag in many git commands to ignore whitespaces. For example, to see
per-line authors, use "git blame -w <file>". Another example: to see
the (*much* smaller) non-whitespace changes in this (or any other)
commit, use "git log -p -w -1 <sha1>".
