OmniThreadLibrary 3.04

OmniThreadLibrary 3.04 is now released. Get it here or check out the release-3.04 tag (or just follow the trunk, which is the best way to experience the OmniThreadLibrary).

Some other links you may need:

Home page: http://www.omnithreadlibrary.com/
Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/112307748950248514961
Downloads: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwqVlLNTK4OxVEgzZnZGM1FNMGc&usp=sharing#list
Issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/omnithreadlibrary/issues/list
SVN checkout instructions: http://code.google.com/p/omnithreadlibrary/source/checkout
Author's blog: http://thedelphigeek.com
Author's home page: http://primoz.gabrijelcic.org
Documentation wiki: http://otl.17slon.com/book/
Documentation book: http://leanpub.com/omnithreadlibrary

Changelog

New features

• Implemented simple and fast Parallel.&For which supports only integer ranges.
• Implemented Parallel.Map.
• Added overloaded Execute methods to IOmniParallelInitializedLoop and IOmniParallelInitializedLoop<T> so that IOmniTask parameter can be passed to the executor.
• Implemented Run overloads that internally call Invoke to start thread worker.
• Implemented TOmniValue.HasArrayItem.
• Implemented TWaitFor which supports waiting any/all and is not limited to 63 objects.
• IOmniTaskControl can wait on any number of comm handles and wait objects. That enables support for >60 tasks in the OtlThreadPool.
• Implemented TOmniBlockingCollection.ToArray<T>.
• NumTasks parameter (OtlParallel) can be negative. In that case, specified number of cores will be reserved for other purposes and all other will be used for processing.
• Example: If NumTasks(-2) is used when process has access to 8 cores, 6 of them (8 - 2) will be used to run the task. 
• Removed project groups.
• Tested with 2007-XE7.

Bug fixes

• Fixed race condition in IOmniPipeline termination code [tnx to Dean Hill].
• Creating parameters with the array overload (IOmniTaskControl.SetParameters(['From', 0, 'To', 99])) was not working.
• Fixed problems in demos 33_BlockingCollection and 47_TaskConfig.

New demos

• 55_ForEachProgress: Demonstrates progress bar updating from a ForEach loop.
• 56_RunInvoke: Simplified 'run & invoke' low-level API.
• 57_For: Simple and fast parallel for.
• 58_ForVsForEach: Speed comparison between Parallel.ForEach, Parallel.For, and TParallel.For (XE7+).
• 59_TWaitFor: Demo for the new TWaitFor class.
• 60_Map: Demonstrates the new Parallel.Map abstraction.
• 61_CollectionToArray: Demonstrates the new TOmniBlockingCollection.ToArray<T> method