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Revision: 1.152
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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 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
8     Event watchers were used directly.
9     - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
10 root 1.146 - minor documentation cleanup.
11 root 1.152 - very minor optimisations and cleanups.
12 root 1.146
13 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
14 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
15     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
16 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
17     make LWP non-blocking.
18     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
19 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
20 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
21     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
22 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
23     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
24 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
25     by LWP(!!).
26     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
27 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
28     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
29     did already.
30 root 1.135
31 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
32     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
33     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
34 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
35     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
36     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
37 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
38 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
39 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
40 root 1.130
41 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
42 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
43    
44 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
45    
46 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
47 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
48     mark & sweep gc run.
49 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
50 root 1.125
51 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
52 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
53 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
54    
55 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
56 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
57 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
58 root 1.117 wrong package.
59 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
60     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
61 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
62     normally uses.
63 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
64 root 1.117
65 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
66     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
67    
68 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
69 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
70 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
71     - strict'ify some modules.
72 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
73 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
74     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
75 root 1.112
76 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
77     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
78     when 'l'inux method was used.
79    
80 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
81     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
82    
83 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
84 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
85 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
86     Coro::State::flush method.
87 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
88 root 1.106
89 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
90 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
91 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
92 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
93 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
94 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
95 root 1.100
96 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
97     - change of contact address.
98    
99 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
100 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
101 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
102 root 1.97
103 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
104 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
105 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
106     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
107 root 1.95
108 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
109     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
110    
111 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
112 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
113 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
114     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
115     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
116     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
117     fixable).
118 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
119 pcg 1.91
120 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
121 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
122     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
123 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
124 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
125     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
126     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
127     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
128 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
129 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
130 pcg 1.86
131 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
132 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
133     memory leaks.
134     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
135 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
136     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
137 pcg 1.84
138 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
139     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
140 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
141    
142 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
143     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
144     of new features.
145 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
146     Highly correct stuff, that is...
147 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
148     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
149 root 1.80
150 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
151 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
152 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
153 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
154     so preselect it.
155 root 1.76
156 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
157     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
158     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
159 root 1.74
160 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
161 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
162     - new module Coro::Select.
163     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
164     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
165 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
166 root 1.72
167 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
168     - made lazy context switching the default.
169     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
170     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
171     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
172     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
173    
174 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
175 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
176 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
177     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
178     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
179     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
180     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
181 root 1.69
182 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
183     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
184     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
185     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
186    
187 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
188 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
189     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
190     without Event, which freezes).
191 root 1.65
192 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
193 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
194    
195 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
196 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
197 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
198     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
199     new ones.
200     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
201 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
202 root 1.60
203 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
204 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
205     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
206     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
207    
208 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
209 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
210     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
211     error.
212 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
213 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
214     - implemented terminate with args + join.
215 root 1.54
216 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
217 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
218 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
219     in various modules.
220     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
221 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
222 root 1.48
223 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
224 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
225     inside Coro::Handle.
226 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
227     speed reasons.
228     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
229     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
230     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
231 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
232 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
233     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
234     under some circumstances.
235     - other bugfixes.
236 root 1.43
237 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
238 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
239     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
240     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
241     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
242     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
243 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
244     syntax.
245 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
246 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
247 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
248 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
249 root 1.36
250 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
251 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
252 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
253     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
254 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
255 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
256 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
257     "Callback called exit" messages).
258 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
259     - much better Coro::Socket support.
260 root 1.31
261     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
262 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
263 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
264 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
265 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
266 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
267 root 1.28
268     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
269 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
270     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
271     - new module Coro::Socket.
272    
273 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
274 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
275 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
276     for yield.
277 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
278 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
279 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
280     perl-5.6.
281 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
282     - the idle process is now overriden
283     by default in Coro::Event.
284 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
285 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
286 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
287     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
288 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
289     non-blocking i/o.
290 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
291 root 1.16
292 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
293 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
294 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
295     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
296     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
297 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
298 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
299 root 1.13
300 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
301     - release candidate 1 ;)
302     - slightly nicer code.
303     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
304    
305 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
306     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
307 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
308     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
309     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
310 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
311     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
312 root 1.9
313 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
314     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
315     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
316    
317 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
318 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
319 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
320     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
321     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
322     coroutine-specific vars.
323 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
324 root 1.4
325 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
326 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
327     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
328     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
329 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
330 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
331     model. Still crude and subject to change.
332 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
333    
334 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
335     - implemented "async" attribute.
336     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
337     - added Coro::Channel.
338     - more testcases, still no docs.
339    
340 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
341     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
342