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Revision: 1.158
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.155 - reimplement a new stack sharing algorithm.
4     - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
5 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
6 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
7     Event watchers were used directly.
8     - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
9 root 1.154 - minor incompatibility: subclassing is supported directly now
10     without going through a _coro_state member.
11 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
12 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
13 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
14 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
15     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
16 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
17 root 1.146
18 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
19 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
20     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
21 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
22     make LWP non-blocking.
23     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
24 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
25 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
26     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
27 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
28     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
29 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
30     by LWP(!!).
31     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
32 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
33     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
34     did already.
35 root 1.135
36 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
37     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
38     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
39 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
40     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
41     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
42 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
43 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
44 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
45 root 1.130
46 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
47 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
48    
49 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
50    
51 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
52 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
53     mark & sweep gc run.
54 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
55 root 1.125
56 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
57 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
58 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
59    
60 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
61 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
62 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
63 root 1.117 wrong package.
64 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
65     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
66 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
67     normally uses.
68 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
69 root 1.117
70 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
71     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
72    
73 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
74 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
75 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
76     - strict'ify some modules.
77 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
78 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
79     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
80 root 1.112
81 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
82     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
83     when 'l'inux method was used.
84    
85 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
86     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
87    
88 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
89 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
90 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
91     Coro::State::flush method.
92 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
93 root 1.106
94 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
95 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
96 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
97 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
98 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
99 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
100 root 1.100
101 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
102     - change of contact address.
103    
104 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
105 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
106 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
107 root 1.97
108 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
109 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
110 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
111     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
112 root 1.95
113 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
114     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
115    
116 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
117 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
118 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
119     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
120     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
121     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
122     fixable).
123 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
124 pcg 1.91
125 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
126 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
127     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
128 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
129 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
130     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
131     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
132     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
133 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
134 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
135 pcg 1.86
136 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
137 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
138     memory leaks.
139     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
140 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
141     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
142 pcg 1.84
143 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
144     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
145 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
146    
147 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
148     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
149     of new features.
150 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
151     Highly correct stuff, that is...
152 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
153     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
154 root 1.80
155 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
156 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
157 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
158 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
159     so preselect it.
160 root 1.76
161 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
162     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
163     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
164 root 1.74
165 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
166 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
167     - new module Coro::Select.
168     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
169     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
170 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
171 root 1.72
172 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
173     - made lazy context switching the default.
174     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
175     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
176     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
177     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
178    
179 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
180 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
181 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
182     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
183     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
184     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
185     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
186 root 1.69
187 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
188     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
189     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
190     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
191    
192 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
193 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
194     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
195     without Event, which freezes).
196 root 1.65
197 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
198 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
199    
200 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
201 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
202 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
203     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
204     new ones.
205     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
206 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
207 root 1.60
208 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
209 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
210     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
211     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
212    
213 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
214 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
215     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
216     error.
217 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
218 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
219     - implemented terminate with args + join.
220 root 1.54
221 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
222 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
223 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
224     in various modules.
225     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
226 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
227 root 1.48
228 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
229 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
230     inside Coro::Handle.
231 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
232     speed reasons.
233     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
234     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
235     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
236 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
237 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
238     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
239     under some circumstances.
240     - other bugfixes.
241 root 1.43
242 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
243 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
244     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
245     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
246     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
247     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
248 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
249     syntax.
250 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
251 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
252 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
253 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
254 root 1.36
255 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
256 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
257 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
258     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
259 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
260 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
261 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
262     "Callback called exit" messages).
263 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
264     - much better Coro::Socket support.
265 root 1.31
266     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
267 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
268 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
269 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
270 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
271 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
272 root 1.28
273     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
274 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
275     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
276     - new module Coro::Socket.
277    
278 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
279 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
280 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
281     for yield.
282 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
283 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
284 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
285     perl-5.6.
286 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
287     - the idle process is now overriden
288     by default in Coro::Event.
289 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
290 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
291 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
292     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
293 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
294     non-blocking i/o.
295 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
296 root 1.16
297 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
298 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
299 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
300     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
301     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
302 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
303 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
304 root 1.13
305 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
306     - release candidate 1 ;)
307     - slightly nicer code.
308     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
309    
310 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
311     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
312 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
313     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
314     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
315 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
316     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
317 root 1.9
318 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
319     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
320     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
321    
322 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
323 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
324 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
325     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
326     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
327     coroutine-specific vars.
328 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
329 root 1.4
330 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
331 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
332     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
333     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
334 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
335 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
336     model. Still crude and subject to change.
337 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
338    
339 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
340     - implemented "async" attribute.
341     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
342     - added Coro::Channel.
343     - more testcases, still no docs.
344    
345 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
346     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
347