Feat/v0.9.0 task coordination

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -71,9 +71,4 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Build all examples
         shell: bash
-        run: |
-          set -e
-          for lpi in examples/*/*.lpi; do
-            echo "==> Building $lpi"
-            lazbuild "$lpi"
-          done
+        run: sh ./build-examples.sh Release

.gitignore

@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ tests/TestRunner
 tests/TestRunner.exe
 tests/lib/
 
+# Consolidated example binary outputs
+/example-bin/
+
 # Debug files
 *.dbg
 *.dcu
@@ -58,4 +61,4 @@ $RECYCLE.BIN/
 ## Linux
 *~
 .directory
-.Trash-*
+.Trash-*

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,64 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/).
 
+## [0.9.0] - 2026-07-16
+
+### Added
+
+- `ThreadPool.Tasks`, a shared task coordination unit for both pool
+  implementations
+- `Submit` overloads returning `IThreadPoolTask` handles with pending, running,
+  completed, failed, and cancelled states
+- Timeout-aware `TrySubmit` overloads matching all four existing callback forms
+- Individual task waiting, failure messages, terminal-state observation, and
+  race-safe pending cancellation
+- `EThreadPoolDeadlock` protection when a callback or error handler attempts to
+  wait for its own task
+- `IThreadPoolTaskBatch` for snapshot-based waits, status counts, indexed task
+  access, and batch pending cancellation
+- Chunked `SubmitRange` overloads for indexed procedures and methods, with
+  inclusive bounds, automatic or explicit chunk sizes, and a returned batch
+- v0.8 interface compile sentinel plus task, batch, cancellation-race, bounded
+  admission, lifetime, and range regression tests
+- `TaskCoordination` API tour, plus production-shaped coordinated file-backup
+  and parallel log-analysis examples
+- Root-level PowerShell and POSIX scripts that build every example into
+  `example-bin/`
+- Complete task API documentation
+- Separate benchmark cases for legacy queueing, tracked submission, individual
+  indexed submission, and chunked ranges
+
+### Changed
+
+- Simple pool queue storage now uses `IWorkItem` consistently, allowing shared
+  tracked work items while preserving its dynamically growing O(1) FIFO
+- Both workers execute tracked work through one shared error/state transition
+  boundary
+- Package version advanced to 0.9.0 and includes `ThreadPool.Tasks`
+
+### Performance
+
+- Legacy `Queue` retains its untracked path, so programs that do not request
+  task handles do not allocate task state or completion events
+- Task completion events are created lazily only when unfinished work is waited
+  on
+- Automatic ranges create at most `ThreadCount * 4` queue entries instead of
+  one entry per index
+- Windows/FPC 3.2.2 release checks kept the legacy 20,000-task median within the
+  v0.8.5 10% regression budget; a 200,000-index Simple range was over 60x faster
+  than individual tracked submissions in the orientation run
+
+### Compatibility
+
+- The v0.8 `IThreadPool` interface and GUID are unchanged; new interface-based
+  callers use the separate `IThreadPoolTaskSource` capability
+- Existing `Queue`, `TryQueue`, `WaitForAll`, lifecycle, error, constructor, and
+  `GlobalThreadPool` contracts remain available
+- Cancellation applies only to pending callbacks. It never interrupts running
+  code, and a bounded-queue tombstone may occupy its slot until dequeued
+- Bounded `SubmitRange` calls from the same pool's worker are rejected with
+  `EThreadPoolDeadlock` to prevent queue-starvation deadlocks
+
 ## [0.8.5] - 2026-07-14
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 # ThreadPool for Free Pascal
 
-[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.8.5-8B5CF6.svg)](CHANGELOG.md)
+[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-0.9.0-8B5CF6.svg)](CHANGELOG.md)
 [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-1E3A8A.svg)](LICENSE.md)
 [![Free Pascal](https://img.shields.io/badge/Free%20Pascal-3.2.2+-3B82F6.svg)](https://www.freepascal.org/)
 [![Lazarus](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lazarus-4.0+-60A5FA.svg)](https://www.lazarus-ide.org/)
@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ producer-consumer workloads that need backpressure.
 
 [Quick start](#quick-start) · [Cheat sheet](docs/CHEATSHEET.md) ·
 [API documentation](#documentation) · [Examples](examples/) ·
-[v0.8.5 release notes](docs/release-notes-v0.8.5.md)
+[v0.9.0 release notes](docs/release-notes-v0.9.0.md)
 
 > [!TIP]
-> ✨ **New in v0.8.5:** refreshed project identity, a shorter README, and a new
-> [cheat sheet](docs/CHEATSHEET.md). Runtime behavior is unchanged from v0.8.0.
+> ✨ **New in v0.9.0:** observable task handles, task batches, efficient
+> chunked ranges, and pending-work cancellation. Existing v0.8 queueing code
+> remains source-compatible. See the [task API](docs/ThreadPool.Tasks-API.md).
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > This library is designed for simple parallel processing and learning-friendly
@@ -47,6 +48,9 @@ Both implementations provide:
 - event-driven workers with no polling sleeps;
 - four task forms: procedures, methods, and indexed variants;
 - timeout-aware `TryQueue` and `WaitForAll` overloads;
+- observable `Submit`/`TrySubmit` task handles;
+- task batches and chunked `SubmitRange` processing;
+- race-safe cancellation of work that has not started;
 - deterministic, draining `Shutdown`;
 - captured worker exceptions through `LastError`, `Errors`, and `OnError`; and
 - automatic worker-count selection with safety limits.
@@ -130,6 +134,33 @@ end.
 The first constructor argument is the worker count; `0` selects
 `TThread.ProcessorCount`. The second is queue capacity.
 
+### Tasks, batches, and ranges
+
+Add `ThreadPool.Tasks` when work needs to be observed or coordinated:
+
+```pascal
+uses
+  ThreadPool.Tasks, ThreadPool.Simple;
+
+var
+  Task: IThreadPoolTask;
+  Batch: IThreadPoolTaskBatch;
+begin
+  Task := GlobalThreadPool.Submit(@DoWork);
+  if Task.WaitFor(250) and (Task.State = ttsFailed) then
+    WriteLn(Task.ErrorMessage);
+
+  Batch := GlobalThreadPool.SubmitRange(@ProcessItem, 0, 999);
+  Batch.WaitFor;
+end;
+```
+
+`Task.Cancel` succeeds only while the task is pending. It never interrupts a
+running callback. A range uses a small number of chunks by default instead of
+creating one queue item per index. See the
+[task API](docs/ThreadPool.Tasks-API.md) for batch counts, timeouts, explicit
+chunk sizes, and bounded-pool rules.
+
 ## Lifecycle and timeouts
 
 Both pools follow one monotonic lifecycle:
@@ -173,6 +204,9 @@ expires.
 > also have no automatic execution deadline; add cancellation or
 > application-level timeouts where needed.
 
+Task handles and batches do not retain their pool. They may be kept after a
+pool is freed, because pool destruction drains accepted work first.
+
 ## Error handling
 
 Task exceptions are caught so a worker failure does not terminate the pool.
@@ -226,12 +260,30 @@ Requirements:
 
 ## Examples
 
+Build every example in Release mode from the repository root:
+
+```powershell
+.\build-examples.ps1
+```
+
+```sh
+sh ./build-examples.sh
+```
+
+Both scripts discover `examples/*/*.lpi` automatically and place the
+executables in the ignored root-level `example-bin/` directory. Pass `Default`
+to build the default mode, or use `-Rebuild` in PowerShell / `--rebuild` in the
+shell script to force a complete rebuild.
+
 | Start with | Demonstrates |
 | --- | --- |
 | [`Starter`](examples/Starter/) | Smallest compilable program with explanatory comments |
 | [`SimpleDemo`](examples/SimpleDemo/) | Procedures, methods, indexes, and the global pool |
 | [`ProdConSimpleDemo`](examples/ProdConSimpleDemo/) | Basic bounded-pool ownership and queueing |
 | [`SimpleErrorHandlingBasic`](examples/SimpleErrorHandlingBasic/) | Reading captured errors after completion |
+| [`TaskCoordination`](examples/TaskCoordination/) | Task handles, batches, ranges, and cancellation |
+| [`CoordinatedFileBackup`](examples/CoordinatedFileBackup/) | Per-file progress, critical-failure policy, and pending cancellation |
+| [`ParallelLogAnalyzer`](examples/ParallelLogAnalyzer/) | Chunked analysis followed by a parallel reporting phase |
 
 More focused samples cover:
 
@@ -241,8 +293,11 @@ More focused samples cover:
   [`SimpleWordCounter`](examples/SimpleWordCounter/), and
   [`ProdConMessageProcessor`](examples/ProdConMessageProcessor/);
 - advanced callbacks: [`SimpleErrorHandling`](examples/SimpleErrorHandling/);
-- real I/O: [`ParallelFileHasher`](examples/ParallelFileHasher/) and
-  [`ParallelUrlFetcher`](examples/ParallelUrlFetcher/).
+- real I/O: [`ParallelFileHasher`](examples/ParallelFileHasher/),
+  [`ParallelUrlFetcher`](examples/ParallelUrlFetcher/), and
+  [`CoordinatedFileBackup`](examples/CoordinatedFileBackup/);
+- coordinated data processing:
+  [`ParallelLogAnalyzer`](examples/ParallelLogAnalyzer/).
 
 ## Documentation
 
@@ -251,9 +306,10 @@ More focused samples cover:
 | [Cheat sheet](docs/CHEATSHEET.md) | Calls and safety rules at a glance |
 | [Simple API](docs/ThreadPool.Simple-API.md) | Complete unbounded-pool reference |
 | [Producer-Consumer API](docs/ThreadPool.ProducerConsumer-API.md) | Complete bounded-pool reference |
+| [Tasks API](docs/ThreadPool.Tasks-API.md) | Submit, wait, batch, range, and cancellation contracts |
 | [Simple technical guide](docs/ThreadPool.Simple-Technical.md) | Internal design and synchronization |
 | [Producer-Consumer technical guide](docs/ThreadPool.ProducerConsumer-Technical.md) | Queue and backpressure internals |
-| [v0.8.5 release notes](docs/release-notes-v0.8.5.md) | Current release scope and compatibility |
+| [v0.9.0 release notes](docs/release-notes-v0.9.0.md) | Current release scope and compatibility |
 | [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) | Full version history |
 
 The banner's editable source is

benchmarks/README.md

@@ -7,11 +7,23 @@ lazbuild --build-mode=Release benchmarks/ThreadPoolBenchmark.lpi
 ./benchmarks/ThreadPoolBenchmark
 ```
 
-The same source compiles against v0.7.0 and v0.8.0. It reports:
+The v0.9.0 benchmark reports:
 
-- completion time for a 20,000-task burst through each pool;
+- completion time for a 20,000-task legacy `Queue` burst through each pool;
+- completion time for an equivalent tracked `Submit` burst;
+- individual tracked submission versus chunked `SubmitRange` for 200,000
+  indexed calls;
 - average queue-to-start latency after workers have been idle.
 
+For comparisons with v0.7.0 and v0.8.x, use the legacy queue and idle fields;
+the tracked and range APIs did not exist in those releases.
+
 Run each version several times on the same otherwise-idle machine and compare
 medians. Debug logging must be disabled in both versions so console I/O is not
 included in the scheduler measurement.
+
+Do not enforce absolute millisecond thresholds on shared CI runners. Compare
+five-run medians on the same otherwise-idle machine. The v0.9.0 release budget
+allows at most a 10% regression in the legacy queue medians and expects the
+Simple chunked range case to be at least 5x faster than individual tracked
+indexed submissions.