This makes freezing a namespace an irrevocable operation but in return allows
omitting further lock operations. This results in a performance improvement as
reading an atomic bool is faster than acquiring and releasing a shared lock.
ObjectLocks on namespaces remain untouched as these mostly affect write
operations which there should be none of after freezing (if there are some,
they will throw exceptions anyways).
This commit removes EmbeddedNamespaceValue and ConstEmbeddedNamespaceValue and
reduces NamespaceValue down to a simple struct without inheritance or member
functions. The code from these clases is inlined into the Namespace class. The
class hierarchy determining whether a value is const is moved to an attribute
of NamespaceValue.
This is done in preparation for changes to the locking in the Namespace class.
Currently, it relies on a recursive mutex. In the future, a shared mutex
(read/write lock) should be used instead, which cannot allow recursive locking
(without failing or risk deadlocking on lock upgrades). With this change, all
operations requiring a lock for one operation are within one function, no
recursive locking is not needed any more.
Change the type of the priority values from int to a new enum. By replacing the
magic int values throughout the code base with named values, there is now a
single place where all priority values are defined and you get an overview over
the initialization order.
What does this change?
* Remove use of spaces for formatting
These could be found by using `grep -r -l -P '^\t+ +[^*]'
* Removal of training whitespaces
* A few lines longer than 120 chars