Commit 6bfc6869 authored by Louis Brandy's avatar Louis Brandy Committed by facebook-github-bot-0

Greatly expand the components overview in Overview.md

Summary: See title. This is create a big flat mess, which I may clean up in a follow on to highlight the biggest and most generally useful libraries.

Reviewed By: fugalh

Differential Revision: D2902152

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......@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ For a high level overview see the [README](folly/README.md)
### Components
Below is a list of Folly components in alphabetical order, along with
Below is a list of (some) Folly components in alphabetical order, along with
a brief description of each.
#### `Arena.h`, `ThreadCachedArena.h`
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Simple arena for memory allocation: multiple allocations get freed all
at once. With threaded version.
#### [`AtomicHashMap.h`, `AtomicHashArray.h`](AtomicHashMap.md)
#### [`AtomicHashMap.h`, `AtomicHashArray.h`](AtomicHashMap.md), `AtomicHashArray.h`, `AtomicLinkedList.h`, ...
High-performance atomic hash map with almost lock-free operation.
High-performance atomic data-structures. Many of these are built with very specific
tradeoffs and constraints in mind that make them faster than their more general
counterparts. Each header should contain information about what these tradeoffs are.
#### `Baton.h`
A Baton allows a thread to block once and be awoken: it captures a single handoff. It is
essentially a (very small, very fast) semaphore that supports only a single call to `sem_call`
and `sem_wait`.
#### [`Benchmark.h`](Benchmark.md)
......@@ -43,6 +51,10 @@ by Herlihy et al.
A variety of data conversion routines (notably to and from string),
optimized for speed and safety.
#### `Demangle.h`
Pretty-printing C++ types.
#### `DiscriminatedPtr.h`
Similar to `boost::variant`, but restricted to pointers only. Uses the
......@@ -51,21 +63,13 @@ highest-order unused 16 bits in a pointer as discriminator. So
#### [`dynamic.h`](Dynamic.md)
Dynamically-typed object, created with JSON objects in mind.
#### `Endian.h`
Endian conversion primitives.
####`Escape.h`
Escapes a string in C style.
Dynamically-typed object, created with JSON objects in mind. `DynamicConverter.h` is
a utility for effeciently converting from a `dynamic` to a more concrete structure when
the scheme is known (e.g. json -> `map<int,int>`).
####`eventfd.h`
#### `EvictingCacheMap.h`
Wrapper around the
[`eventfd`](http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/eventfd.2.html)
system call.
A simple LRU hash map.
####[`FBString.h`](FBString.md)
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A mostly drop-in implementation of `std::vector` with a variety of
optimizations.
####`Foreach.h`
#### `File.h`
Pseudo-statements (implemented as macros) for iteration.
A C++ abstraction around files.
#### `Fingerprint.h`
Rabin fingerprinting.
### [`futures/`](folly/futures/Readme.md)
Futures is a framework for expressing asynchronous code in C++ using the Promise/Future pattern.
####[`Format.h`](Format.md)
Python-style formatting utilities.
#### `gen/`
This library makes it possible to write declarative comprehensions for
processing sequences of values efficiently in C++ akin to C#'s LINQ.
####[`GroupVarint.h`](GroupVarint.md)
[Group Varint
encoding](http://www.ir.uwaterloo.ca/book/addenda-06-index-compression.html)
for 32-bit values.
####`IpAddress.h`
A collection of utilities to deal with IPAddresses, including ipv4 and ipv6.
#### `io/`
A collection of useful of abstractions for high-performance io. This is heavily relied upon
in Facebook's internally networking code.
####`Hash.h`
Various popular hash function implementations.
......@@ -110,14 +136,23 @@ JSON serializer and deserializer. Uses `dynamic.h`.
Wrappers around [`__builtin_expect`](http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html).
####`Malloc.h`
####`Malloc.h`, `Memory.h`
Memory allocation helpers, particularly when using jemalloc.
####`MapUtil.h`
####`MicroSpinLock.h`
A really, *really* small spinlock for fine-grained locking of lots of teeny-tiny data.
Helpers for finding items in associative containers (such as
`std::map` and `std::unordered_map`).
####`MPMCQueue.h`
MPMCQueue<typename> is a high-performance bounded concurrent queue that
supports multiple producers, multiple consumers, and optional blocking.
The queue has a fixed capacity, for which all memory will be allocated
up front.
The additional utility `MPMCPipeline.h` is an extension that lets you
chain several queues together with processing steps in between.
####[`PackedSyncPtr.h`](PackedSyncPtr.md)
......@@ -128,12 +163,6 @@ spin lock, and a 15-bit integral, all inside one 64-bit word.
Necessarily evil stuff.
####`PrettyPrint.h`
Pretty-printer for numbers that appends suffixes of unit used: bytes
(kb, MB, ...), metric suffixes (k, M, G, ...), and time (s, ms, us,
ns, ...).
####[`ProducerConsumerQueue.h`](ProducerConsumerQueue.md)
Lock free single-reader, single-writer queue.
......@@ -154,6 +183,14 @@ Fast and compact reader-writer spin lock.
C++11 incarnation of the old [ScopeGuard](http://drdobbs.com/184403758) idiom.
####`Singleton.h`
A singleton to rule the singletons. This is an attempt to insert a layer between
C++ statics and the fiasco that ensues, so that things can be created, and destroyed,
correctly upon program creation, program end and sometimes `dlopen` and `fork`.
Singletons are bad for you, but this may help.
####[`SmallLocks.h`](SmallLocks.md)
Very small spin locks (1 byte and 1 bit).
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Collections similar to `std::map` but implemented as sorted vectors.
#### `stats/`
A collection of efficient utilities for collecting statistics (often of
time series data).
####`StlAllocator.h`
STL allocator wrapping a simple allocate/deallocate interface.
......@@ -207,3 +249,7 @@ Type traits that complement those defined in the standard C++11 header
####`Unicode.h`
Defines the `codePointToUtf8` function.
####`Uri.h`
A collection of utilities to deal with URIs.
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