Hello Community,

I’m pleased to announce that libpmemobj-cpp 1.11 has been released and is available from our GitHub pages.

This release introduces a new experimental container - persistent radix_tree along with inline_string and string_view classes.

It also introduces a new pointer type: self_relative_ptr with std::atomic specialization.

New features:

• experimental radix_tree container (single-threaded sorted map)
• experimental inline_string class (class serves a similar purpose to pmem::obj::string, but keeps the data within the same allocation as inline_string itself)
• string_view class (support for compilers older than C++17)
• experimental self_relative_ptr and std::atomic<self_relative_ptr> specialization (persistent smart ptr which encapsulates the self offseted pointer and provides member access, dereference and array access operators - for some workloads it could be a faster alternative for persistent_ptr)

Optimizations:

• optimizations for concurrent_map with self_relative_ptr

Other changes:

• missing constructors for basic_string class
• conversion operator for basic_string class
• ported libcxx’s sorted map tests
• lower and lower_eq methods for concurrent_map
• missing constructor for concurrent_map (comparator as an argument)

Source code and detailed changelogs can be found here:

https://github.com/pmem/libpmemobj-cpp/releases/tag/1.11

/Szymon