v2.1.0
Release Highlights
Feature: tweaks to reading files concurrently
Enough is going on in these few changes that a minor version bump is warranted. As always, please open issues for any unexpected behavior!
First, the default number of files being read & written concurrently has both been reduced from 20 to 10. This should help with some hard drive thrash. Write threads have had the --writer-threads <number> option since v1.6.5, and a new matching --reader-threads <number> option has been added with this release.
Second, if multiple hard drives are provided as input paths, igir should do a better job of reading from each disk in parallel, hopefully speeding up processing.
Third, Samba (SMB) paths are now limited to reading one file at a time, to reduce network thrash and speed up processing time. Let me know if you experience any issues with this! Thank you @samuelcole for the bug report!
Fix: rewrite of the CMPro DAT parser
Rather than using an existing library, I rewrote the CMPro DAT parser from scratch to solve for some bugs around whitespace and newlines. This carries some risk! If you find any problems, please open a bug report and I'll be very happy to address it.
Thank you @juliadin for the bug report on libretro DATs!
Fix: potential crash with many files in multiple input directories
It turns out Node.js' Array#push() is recursive, or does something to balloon the call stack to the point of crash when providing many arguments with the spread operator.
Feature: {funkeyos} output token added
Thank you @juliadin for this quality contribution, with quality documentation to match!
All changes
29 October 2023 - ee50d93 - v2.1.0 (#801)
29 October 2023 - 7682a97 - Feature: prefer input files not from the output path (#767)
28 October 2023 - bdecb10 - Feature: limit concurrent file reads per hard drive (#785)
28 October 2023 - 58abf4f - Chore: update lockfile (#800)
28 October 2023 - df19a61 - Feature: Output token funkeyos (#786)
28 October 2023 - 57577b8 - Chore: update dependency @types/node to v20 (#798)
28 October 2023 - b04dfdc - Chore: update lockfile (#799)
28 October 2023 - ba6fc2e - Chore: update ESLint (#797)
28 October 2023 - 805b242 - Chore: update dev dependencies (#796)
27 October 2023 - f936ea1 - Chore: update dependency @types/jest to v29.5.6 (#795)
27 October 2023 - 0cdebea - Chore: update dependencies (#794)
27 October 2023 - cb94715 - Fix: moved ROM deleter progress bar total (#793)
27 October 2023 - c83d577 - Refactor: ban Array#push() (#792)
27 October 2023 - d034726 - Refactor: use Volta instead of nvm (#791)
27 October 2023 - a4a015a - Refactor: revert tsconfig settings that were necessary for robloach-datfile (#789)
27 October 2023 - d7f7ff0 - Fix: username in the first PR interaction comment (#790)
27 October 2023 - 01630f2 - Chore: update dependency node to v20 (#787)
27 October 2023 - 24df53a - Fix: provide ts-node as a loader to the start script (#788)
23 October 2023 - b1e9ee1 - Feature: reader threads debug option (#778)
23 October 2023 - d8ef643 - Fix: replace robloach-datfile with a custom CMPro DAT parser (#784)
23 October 2023 - bb6cade - Feature: DAT downloading & parsing progress bar icons (#783)
23 October 2023 - 5e44cb6 - Fix: catch CMPro DAT parsing errors (#782)
22 October 2023 - af710cc - Feature: separate candidate combiner & parent inferrer progress bar symbols (#780)
21 October 2023 - 4c42ad1 - CI: add footer with links to inactive lock comments (#779)
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