Archipelago

Design the program's skeleton for new features

Bench peer must be able to test all xseg operations in a synchronous or
asynchronous way. Also, it must have a validation mode to sanity-check
if xseg requests are issued properly. Most of the above are present in...

Add an LFSR PRNG for bench

The PRNG introduced by this commit is a Galois-XNOR LFSR, which can
generate unique pseudorandom numbers. Also, seeded with the same
seed, it will produce the same sequence.

This implementation is driven by the needs of XSEG for a blazing fast...

Alpha release of bench peer

On this release, the bench peer can measure the total elapsed time
of the benchmark. TODO:

• Allow bench peer to be multi-threaded.
• Adjust benchmarking precision, by eliminating or including more
  trivial timers.
• Measure mean time, standard deviation of requests.

Fix segfault, parameters validation

Simplify port binding code