Changelog

2022-05-28

Added

Workers can request unallocation of their row by sending a ROW_REQUEST again

2020-12-14

Added

Workers can disconnect and reconnect to the master at any time

2020-11-27

Added

Distributed computing supported with -g, -G, and -p
Specify number of bits used in the MPFR/MPC floating-point significands with --precision

Changed

--log merely enables file logging with the default path. Use --log-file to specify the path

2020-07-14

Added

ASCII art output with -t

Changed

ASCII art output can be outputted to a text file with -o

2020-07-12

Changed

make mp will build with multiple-precision floating-point support (as opposed to make, without)

2020-07-10

Added

-A option will enable multiple-precision mode (use of multiple precision MPFR/MPC types)

2020-07-03

Added

-X option will enable extended-precision mode (use of long double types)

Changed

Fixed memory allocation bug

2020-06-25

Added

Centre point & magnification can be specified rather than ranges

2020-06-25

Added

Memory limit command-line option
Thread count command-line option

2020-06-24

Changed

Removed bug with 1-bit image mode - it works now!

2020-06-23

Changed

Library support changed to being handled through Git Submodules

2020-06-22

Added

Julia set plotting
TODO.md list

Removed

Unsafe pointer cast

2020-06-21

Added

Multithreading support
1-bit image support
README.md documentation

Changed

Memory allocation to only allocate from physical memory pool
Optimisation to decrease execution time by 50-fold

2020-06-20

Added

Makefile to ease installation
Polymorphism to make project maintenance easier

Changed

Complete refactor of codebase
Ergonomic command-line interface with better argument parsing
Better logging with timestamps and message severity levels

Removed

ASCII art output (temporary)
Multithreading (temporary)
Julia set support (temporary)
1-bit image support (temporary)