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.
In essence, namespace behaviors acted as hooks for update operations on
namespaces. Two behaviors were implemented:
- `NamespaceBehavior`: allows the update operation unless it acts on a value
that itself was explicitly marked as constant.
- `ConstNamespaceBehavior`: initially allows insert operations but marks the
individual values as const. Additionally provides a `Freeze()` member
function. After this was called, updates are rejected unless a special
`overrideFrozen` flag is set explicitly.
This marvel of object-oriented programming can be replaced with a simple bool.
This commit basically replaces `Namespace::m_Behavior` with
`Namespace::m_ConstValues` and inlines the behavior functions where they were
called. While doing so, the code was slightly simplified by assuming that
`m_ConstValues` is true if `m_Frozen` is true. This is similar to what the API
allowed in the old code as you could only freeze a `ConstNamespaceBehavior`.
However, this PR moves the `Freeze()` member function and the related
`m_Freeze` member variable to the `Namespace` class. So now the API allows any
namespace to be frozen. The new code also makes sense with the previously
mentioned simplification: a `Namespace` with `m_ConstValues = false` can be
modified without restrictions until `Freeze()` is called. When this is done, it
becomes read-only.
The changes outside of `namespace.*` just adapt the code to the slightly
changed API.
Julian Brost
Alexander A. Klimov
Michael Friedrich
Gunnar Beutner