phpruntests - GSoC report 4

Hi all, 

here's the actual update on my gsoc-work.

best regards, 
georg



TIME SPENT:
about 45 hours


HIGHLIGHT:

There was not a really highlight in the last two weeks. The most time I
spent on building and upgrading the taskScheduler-prototype.


KEY CONCERNS: -


WAITING FOR:

Feedback on the last update of the prototype (not urgent).


KEY TASKS THAT STALLED:

The pronounced shared-memory-option was dropped for now. The file- and the
msgq-variant are covering all our current requirements.


KEY ACCOMPLISHMENT:

- Finalizing the taskScheduler prototype (signal-handler, clean
oo-structure). 

- Extending the prototype to offer a "low-ipc-variant", using temporary
files instead of message-queues. This ensures that the multi-threading also
will work on windows-platforms.

- Creating four examples for testing the functionality and comparing the
runtime of the scheduler to get it at a admissible performance.

- Some minor adjustments in the run-tests-project.

- [off-topic] trying to get php53 running on my iphone - works almost ;)


MY TODOS:

Integrating the prototype in the runtests-project. The plan is to keep the
basic structure of the prototype and adding an adapter in the current
implementation which handles the communication.