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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 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
18 root 1.146
19 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
20 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
21     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
22 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
23     make LWP non-blocking.
24     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
25 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
26 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
27     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
28 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
29     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
30 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
31     by LWP(!!).
32     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
33 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
34     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
35     did already.
36 root 1.135
37 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
38     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
39     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
40 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
41     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
42     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
43 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
44 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
45 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
46 root 1.130
47 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
48 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
49    
50 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
51    
52 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
53 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
54     mark & sweep gc run.
55 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
56 root 1.125
57 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
58 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
59 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
60    
61 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
62 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
63 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
64 root 1.117 wrong package.
65 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
66     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
67 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
68     normally uses.
69 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
70 root 1.117
71 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
72     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
73    
74 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
75 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
76 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
77     - strict'ify some modules.
78 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
79 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
80     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
81 root 1.112
82 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
83     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
84     when 'l'inux method was used.
85    
86 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
87     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
88    
89 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
90 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
91 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
92     Coro::State::flush method.
93 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
94 root 1.106
95 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
96 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
97 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
98 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
99 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
100 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
101 root 1.100
102 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
103     - change of contact address.
104    
105 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
106 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
107 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
108 root 1.97
109 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
110 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
111 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
112     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
113 root 1.95
114 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
115     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
116    
117 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
118 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
119 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
120     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
121     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
122     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
123     fixable).
124 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
125 pcg 1.91
126 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
127 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
128     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
129 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
130 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
131     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
132     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
133     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
134 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
135 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
136 pcg 1.86
137 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
138 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
139     memory leaks.
140     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
141 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
142     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
143 pcg 1.84
144 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
145     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
146 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
147    
148 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
149     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
150     of new features.
151 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
152     Highly correct stuff, that is...
153 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
154     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
155 root 1.80
156 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
157 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
158 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
159 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
160     so preselect it.
161 root 1.76
162 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
163     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
164     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
165 root 1.74
166 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
167 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
168     - new module Coro::Select.
169     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
170     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
171 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
172 root 1.72
173 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
174     - made lazy context switching the default.
175     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
176     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
177     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
178     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
179    
180 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
181 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
182 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
183     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
184     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
185     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
186     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
187 root 1.69
188 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
189     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
190     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
191     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
192    
193 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
194 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
195     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
196     without Event, which freezes).
197 root 1.65
198 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
199 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
200    
201 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
202 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
203 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
204     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
205     new ones.
206     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
207 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
208 root 1.60
209 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
210 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
211     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
212     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
213    
214 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
215 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
216     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
217     error.
218 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
219 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
220     - implemented terminate with args + join.
221 root 1.54
222 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
223 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
224 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
225     in various modules.
226     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
227 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
228 root 1.48
229 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
230 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
231     inside Coro::Handle.
232 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
233     speed reasons.
234     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
235     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
236     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
237 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
238 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
239     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
240     under some circumstances.
241     - other bugfixes.
242 root 1.43
243 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
244 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
245     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
246     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
247     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
248     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
249 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
250     syntax.
251 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
252 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
253 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
254 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
255 root 1.36
256 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
257 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
258 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
259     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
260 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
261 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
262 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
263     "Callback called exit" messages).
264 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
265     - much better Coro::Socket support.
266 root 1.31
267     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
268 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
269 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
270 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
271 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
272 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
273 root 1.28
274     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
275 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
276     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
277     - new module Coro::Socket.
278    
279 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
280 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
281 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
282     for yield.
283 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
284 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
285 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
286     perl-5.6.
287 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
288     - the idle process is now overriden
289     by default in Coro::Event.
290 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
291 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
292 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
293     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
294 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
295     non-blocking i/o.
296 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
297 root 1.16
298 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
299 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
300 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
301     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
302     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
303 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
304 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
305 root 1.13
306 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
307     - release candidate 1 ;)
308     - slightly nicer code.
309     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
310    
311 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
312     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
313 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
314     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
315     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
316 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
317     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
318 root 1.9
319 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
320     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
321     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
322    
323 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
324 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
325 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
326     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
327     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
328     coroutine-specific vars.
329 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
330 root 1.4
331 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
332 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
333     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
334     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
335 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
336 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
337     model. Still crude and subject to change.
338 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
339    
340 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
341     - implemented "async" attribute.
342     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
343     - added Coro::Channel.
344     - more testcases, still no docs.
345    
346 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
347     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
348