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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 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
13 root 1.146
14 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
15 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
16     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
17 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
18     make LWP non-blocking.
19     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
20 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
21 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
22     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
23 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
24     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
25 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
26     by LWP(!!).
27     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
28 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
29     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
30     did already.
31 root 1.135
32 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
33     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
34     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
35 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
36     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
37     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
38 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
39 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
40 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
41 root 1.130
42 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
43 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
44    
45 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
46    
47 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
48 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
49     mark & sweep gc run.
50 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
51 root 1.125
52 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
53 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
54 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
55    
56 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
57 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
58 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
59 root 1.117 wrong package.
60 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
61     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
62 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
63     normally uses.
64 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
65 root 1.117
66 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
67     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
68    
69 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
70 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
71 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
72     - strict'ify some modules.
73 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
74 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
75     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
76 root 1.112
77 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
78     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
79     when 'l'inux method was used.
80    
81 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
82     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
83    
84 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
85 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
86 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
87     Coro::State::flush method.
88 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
89 root 1.106
90 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
91 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
92 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
93 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
94 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
95 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
96 root 1.100
97 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
98     - change of contact address.
99    
100 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
101 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
102 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
103 root 1.97
104 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
105 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
106 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
107     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
108 root 1.95
109 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
110     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
111    
112 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
113 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
114 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
115     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
116     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
117     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
118     fixable).
119 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
120 pcg 1.91
121 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
122 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
123     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
124 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
125 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
126     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
127     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
128     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
129 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
130 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
131 pcg 1.86
132 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
133 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
134     memory leaks.
135     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
136 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
137     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
138 pcg 1.84
139 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
140     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
141 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
142    
143 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
144     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
145     of new features.
146 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
147     Highly correct stuff, that is...
148 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
149     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
150 root 1.80
151 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
152 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
153 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
154 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
155     so preselect it.
156 root 1.76
157 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
158     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
159     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
160 root 1.74
161 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
162 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
163     - new module Coro::Select.
164     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
165     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
166 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
167 root 1.72
168 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
169     - made lazy context switching the default.
170     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
171     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
172     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
173     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
174    
175 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
176 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
177 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
178     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
179     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
180     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
181     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
182 root 1.69
183 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
184     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
185     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
186     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
187    
188 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
189 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
190     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
191     without Event, which freezes).
192 root 1.65
193 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
194 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
195    
196 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
197 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
198 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
199     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
200     new ones.
201     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
202 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
203 root 1.60
204 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
205 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
206     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
207     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
208    
209 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
210 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
211     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
212     error.
213 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
214 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
215     - implemented terminate with args + join.
216 root 1.54
217 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
218 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
219 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
220     in various modules.
221     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
222 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
223 root 1.48
224 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
225 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
226     inside Coro::Handle.
227 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
228     speed reasons.
229     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
230     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
231     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
232 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
233 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
234     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
235     under some circumstances.
236     - other bugfixes.
237 root 1.43
238 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
239 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
240     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
241     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
242     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
243     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
244 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
245     syntax.
246 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
247 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
248 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
249 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
250 root 1.36
251 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
252 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
253 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
254     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
255 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
256 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
257 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
258     "Callback called exit" messages).
259 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
260     - much better Coro::Socket support.
261 root 1.31
262     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
263 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
264 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
265 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
266 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
267 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
268 root 1.28
269     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
270 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
271     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
272     - new module Coro::Socket.
273    
274 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
275 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
276 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
277     for yield.
278 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
279 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
280 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
281     perl-5.6.
282 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
283     - the idle process is now overriden
284     by default in Coro::Event.
285 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
286 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
287 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
288     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
289 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
290     non-blocking i/o.
291 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
292 root 1.16
293 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
294 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
295 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
296     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
297     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
298 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
299 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
300 root 1.13
301 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
302     - release candidate 1 ;)
303     - slightly nicer code.
304     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
305    
306 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
307     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
308 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
309     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
310     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
311 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
312     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
313 root 1.9
314 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
315     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
316     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
317    
318 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
319 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
320 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
321     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
322     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
323     coroutine-specific vars.
324 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
325 root 1.4
326 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
327 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
328     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
329     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
330 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
331 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
332     model. Still crude and subject to change.
333 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
334    
335 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
336     - implemented "async" attribute.
337     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
338     - added Coro::Channel.
339     - more testcases, still no docs.
340    
341 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
342     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
343