The Snap team is pleased to announce the release of Snap 0.2.15.

Changes since 0.2.14

Improvements:

• Improved the way that the stock snap-server backend handles timeouts; before we were using Johan Tibell’s trick of keeping a list of edits to the master threads table behind an IORef, and then applying these edits in a worker thread which runs periodically to kill timed-out connections.

  During some benchmark testing we’ve been doing for an upcoming article, we noticed that this approach was still causing too much blackhole contention on the IORef — worker threads were spending too much time fighting over who got to modify the list of edits. In snap-server 0.2.15, we’ve switched to a striped locking scheme, in which we manage a vector of priority search queues, each guarded by a lock. We pick which queue to register with based on the hash of the worker thread’s ThreadId.

  In our testing this change has improved throughput by 50% in absolute terms. You can browse the source code for the new module on our github page.

Bugfixes

• The snap project starter executable wasn’t building properly due to some transitive dependency conflicts over our recent upgrade to text version 0.10. A new version of heist has been pushed to upgrade our hexpat, and the project starter has been modified to match: please let us know if you encounter problems.