Implements the new addressing surface the examples in examples/ specify:
- spawn_addr::<A>(FnOnce(Receiver<A::Msg>)) -> Pid<A>: the typed-path
producer. Makes the inbox, spawns the body with its receiver, and publishes
the sender from the PARENT side (registry::install_for) before returning the
pid, so an immediate send_to always resolves (no race on the body installing
itself). Detached, like ServerBuilder::start.
- lookup_as / pick_as / members_as: re-type an erased pid as Pid<A> over the
heterogeneous registry/pg stores, sharing one helper (pid::assert_type).
Unchecked but sound: routing is by message TypeId, so a wrong A degrades to
SendError::NoChannel on the next send, never a misdelivery.
- dispatch::<A>(group, msg) -> Result<Pid<A>, SendError<A::Msg>>: pick_as +
send_to, with the message handed back on failure. New SendError::NoMember
variant for the empty/all-dead group case.
- gen_server naming: ServerName<G> backed internally by the registry's existing
typed-channel store keyed by TypeId::of::<Envelope<G>>() — Envelope stays
private, no separate directory. Type-state NamedServerBuilder<G> keeps the
current infallible ServerBuilder::start() untouched; its start() is fallible
(parent-side register, NameTaken). Free call/cast/whereis_server resolve per
use. ServerRef::shutdown (+ free shutdown) is the sys-style synchronous stop.
- root-exit teardown: the run's initial actor is recorded as root; when it
finalizes it flags root_exited, and the scheduler's idle verdict then stops
the parked-forever remainder (a one-shot RootDrain sweep). Deferred to the
idle point on purpose: the run queue drains first, so actors with queued work
finish rather than unwinding on the stop. This lets a named-server daemon (or
any pinned actor) wind the run down instead of hanging on live_actors > 0.
request_stop is refactored to a request_stop_inner core so the sweep can drive
it from inside the runtime without re-borrowing the thread-local.
Lib + tests + examples build warning-free; full suite green.
Fold the made-up Addr<A> back into the pid, where it belonged. The typed
handle IS the pid now.
- RawPid { index, generation }: today's Pid, renamed — the raw numbers, the key
for identity-only plumbing and the heterogeneous monitor/link/pg tables.
- Pid<A = Erased>: RawPid + phantom actor type. Both an identity and a direct,
identity-bound address; when A: Addressable a send delivers A::Msg to exactly
this incarnation (next phase). Hand-written impls (eq/hash/fmt on the raw
only, no A bounds); fn()->A phantom keeps it Copy+Send+Sync for any A.
- Erased: uninhabited, deliberately NOT Addressable, so a typed send to a
Pid<Erased> won't compile — that's what send_dyn (section 4.6) will be for. It
is the default type arg, so every plain "Pid" written today still compiles as
Pid<Erased>; that, plus the fact that nothing destructures pid fields, is why
an identity change touching 18 files cascaded to zero internal edits.
- Addr<A> deleted; Name<M> / the Phase-2 registry unchanged (they key on raw).
Per the call to make the consumers take typed pids: the user-facing identity
APIs — monitor, link, unlink, request_stop, spawn_under(supervisor), pg::join,
pg::leave — are now generic over A and erase at the boundary; their bodies are
byte-for-byte unchanged. Pure plumbing (unpark, set_current_pid,
register_supervisor_channel) stays erased — it only ever sees internal identity.
Phase 1's Addr tests become Pid<A> tests (identity/copy/erase/Debug, Send+Sync).
Full suite + order-checker green, warning-free across all targets.
Rip out the old name<->pid bimap; rebuild registry.rs as the live mailbox
directory. A name resolves to a SINGLE actor (many-per-label is pg's job); that
actor owns a SET of typed channels (channels are typed, so no single mailbox),
keyed by message TypeId. Resolution: name -> pid (one actor) -> Mailbox ->
channel for type M. Same name + different type parameter selects different
channels of the one actor, so capability separation (§4.7) needs no new type.
- register<M>(Name<M>, Sender<M>): captures the current actor's channel under a
name (one step, per decision). Adds channels cumulatively; NameTaken only vs a
different LIVE holder; stale/dangling bindings pruned on contact.
- send<M>(Name<M>, msg): the payoff — resolve, clone the Sender UNDER the Leaf
lock, release, then send (Leaf -> Channel; a send can unpark). Returns the msg
on Unresolved / NoChannel / Closed.
- whereis -> single live pid; unregister frees only the name (mailbox/other
names survive). name_of (reverse lookup) dropped — deferred to introspection.
- Contained erasure: each channel is Box<dyn Any+Send> filed under TypeId::of M
and downcast to its own keying type, so the downcast can't fail on good data
(debug-asserted via the stored type_name). Phantom M on Name re-imposes type.
- One Leaf RawMutex (the fold), so a name send stays on a single Leaf — two
Leaves at once is a hard panic. runtime.rs field/init unchanged (same Registry
name + new()).
tests/registry.rs rewritten for the new semantics: send-by-name delivery,
many typed channels on one actor, same-name/different-type routing, NameTaken,
takeover across slot reuse, Unresolved/NoChannel. Also fold in a Phase 1 fixup:
the phantom test key was an enum whose variants tripped dead-code under the test
build (only caught now that I run -D warnings on --tests). Full suite +
order-checker green, warning-free across all targets.
Add the value-token layer for typed addressing, ahead of the handle table:
- Addressable { type Msg }: minimal actor-type -> message-type hook (decision
(a)). Raw actors are closures over channels; GenServer is multi-message and
stays addressed via ServerRef. This gives the single-message actors a key.
- Addr<A>: direct, identity-bound address (RFC's Pid<A>, renamed to avoid the
collision with the non-generic Pid identity). Plain Pid + PhantomData<fn()->A>.
- Name<A>: durable, re-resolving address; const-constructible (Name::new).
Both tokens are Copy + Send + Sync regardless of key (phantom is fn()->T), with
hand-written trait impls so no spurious T: Copy/Eq bounds leak in. No behavior
yet; send/resolve/storage land in later phases. Addr::new is #[cfg(test)] until
Phase 2 has a real (non-test) caller. Unit tests cover identity/copy/eq/debug
and Send+Sync.
Hand-rolled context switching on mmap'd stacks with guard pages,
allocator-driven RDTSC preemption, unbounded MPSC channels, supervision
via per-slot Signal mailboxes, root supervisor as sentinel PID.
Lib + tests + benches clean check/clippy. All 29 tests pass.
Bench: smarm 3.4% over serial baseline, within 160us of tokio
current-thread on prime-counting fan-out.
smarm-agent