ViewVC Help
View File | Revision Log | Show Annotations | Download File
/cvs/Coro/Changes
Revision: 1.148
Committed: Mon Nov 20 20:29:33 2006 UTC (17 years, 6 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.147: +4 -0 lines
Log Message:
*** empty log message ***

File Contents

# User Rev Content
1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.148 TODO: check wether stack-sharing is still effective
4     TODO: more effective stack sharing by having one "default stack" for "simple" coroutines?
5     TODO: verify exception frame changes and force stack copies?
6    
7 root 1.147 - avoid deadlock in Coro::Event's idle process when it is called
8     early with no active watchers.
9 root 1.146 - minor documentation cleanup.
10    
11 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
12 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
13     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
14 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
15     make LWP non-blocking.
16     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
17 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
18 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
19     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
20 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
21     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
22 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
23     by LWP(!!).
24     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
25 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
26     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
27     did already.
28 root 1.135
29 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
30     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
31     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
32 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
33     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
34     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
35 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
36 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
37 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
38 root 1.130
39 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
40 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
41    
42 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
43    
44 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
45 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
46     mark & sweep gc run.
47 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
48 root 1.125
49 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
50 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
51 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
52    
53 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
54 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
55 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
56 root 1.117 wrong package.
57 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
58     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
59 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
60     normally uses.
61 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
62 root 1.117
63 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
64     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
65    
66 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
67 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
68 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
69     - strict'ify some modules.
70 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
71 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
72     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
73 root 1.112
74 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
75     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
76     when 'l'inux method was used.
77    
78 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
79     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
80    
81 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
82 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
83 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
84     Coro::State::flush method.
85 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
86 root 1.106
87 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
88 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
89 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
90 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
91 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
92 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
93 root 1.100
94 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
95     - change of contact address.
96    
97 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
98 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
99 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
100 root 1.97
101 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
102 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
103 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
104     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
105 root 1.95
106 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
107     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
108    
109 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
110 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
111 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
112     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
113     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
114     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
115     fixable).
116 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
117 pcg 1.91
118 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
119 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
120     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
121 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
122 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
123     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
124     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
125     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
126 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
127 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
128 pcg 1.86
129 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
130 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
131     memory leaks.
132     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
133 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
134     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
135 pcg 1.84
136 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
137     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
138 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
139    
140 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
141     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
142     of new features.
143 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
144     Highly correct stuff, that is...
145 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
146     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
147 root 1.80
148 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
149 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
150 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
151 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
152     so preselect it.
153 root 1.76
154 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
155     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
156     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
157 root 1.74
158 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
159 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
160     - new module Coro::Select.
161     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
162     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
163 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
164 root 1.72
165 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
166     - made lazy context switching the default.
167     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
168     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
169     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
170     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
171    
172 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
173 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
174 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
175     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
176     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
177     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
178     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
179 root 1.69
180 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
181     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
182     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
183     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
184    
185 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
186 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
187     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
188     without Event, which freezes).
189 root 1.65
190 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
191 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
192    
193 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
194 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
195 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
196     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
197     new ones.
198     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
199 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
200 root 1.60
201 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
202 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
203     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
204     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
205    
206 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
207 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
208     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
209     error.
210 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
211 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
212     - implemented terminate with args + join.
213 root 1.54
214 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
215 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
216 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
217     in various modules.
218     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
219 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
220 root 1.48
221 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
222 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
223     inside Coro::Handle.
224 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
225     speed reasons.
226     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
227     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
228     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
229 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
230 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
231     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
232     under some circumstances.
233     - other bugfixes.
234 root 1.43
235 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
236 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
237     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
238     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
239     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
240     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
241 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
242     syntax.
243 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
244 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
245 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
246 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
247 root 1.36
248 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
249 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
250 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
251     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
252 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
253 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
254 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
255     "Callback called exit" messages).
256 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
257     - much better Coro::Socket support.
258 root 1.31
259     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
260 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
261 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
262 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
263 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
264 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
265 root 1.28
266     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
267 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
268     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
269     - new module Coro::Socket.
270    
271 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
272 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
273 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
274     for yield.
275 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
276 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
277 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
278     perl-5.6.
279 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
280     - the idle process is now overriden
281     by default in Coro::Event.
282 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
283 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
284 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
285     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
286 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
287     non-blocking i/o.
288 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
289 root 1.16
290 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
291 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
292 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
293     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
294     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
295 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
296 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
297 root 1.13
298 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
299     - release candidate 1 ;)
300     - slightly nicer code.
301     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
302    
303 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
304     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
305 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
306     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
307     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
308 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
309     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
310 root 1.9
311 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
312     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
313     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
314    
315 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
316 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
317 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
318     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
319     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
320     coroutine-specific vars.
321 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
322 root 1.4
323 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
324 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
325     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
326     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
327 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
328 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
329     model. Still crude and subject to change.
330 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
331    
332 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
333     - implemented "async" attribute.
334     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
335     - added Coro::Channel.
336     - more testcases, still no docs.
337    
338 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
339     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
340