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Revision: 1.162
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.160 3.0
4 root 1.155 - reimplement a new stack sharing algorithm.
5     - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
6 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
7 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
8 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
9 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
10 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
11     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
12 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
13 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
14 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
15 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
16     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
17 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
18 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
19 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
20 root 1.146
21 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
22 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
23     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
24 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
25     make LWP non-blocking.
26     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
27 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
28 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
29     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
30 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
31     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
32 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
33     by LWP(!!).
34     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
35 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
36     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
37     did already.
38 root 1.135
39 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
40     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
41     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
42 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
43     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
44     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
45 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
46 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
47 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
48 root 1.130
49 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
50 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
51    
52 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
53    
54 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
55 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
56     mark & sweep gc run.
57 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
58 root 1.125
59 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
60 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
61 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
62    
63 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
64 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
65 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
66 root 1.117 wrong package.
67 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
68     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
69 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
70     normally uses.
71 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
72 root 1.117
73 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
74     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
75    
76 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
77 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
78 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
79     - strict'ify some modules.
80 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
81 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
82     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
83 root 1.112
84 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
85     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
86     when 'l'inux method was used.
87    
88 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
89     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
90    
91 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
92 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
93 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
94     Coro::State::flush method.
95 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
96 root 1.106
97 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
98 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
99 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
100 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
101 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
102 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
103 root 1.100
104 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
105     - change of contact address.
106    
107 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
108 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
109 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
110 root 1.97
111 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
112 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
113 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
114     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
115 root 1.95
116 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
117     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
118    
119 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
120 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
121 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
122     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
123     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
124     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
125     fixable).
126 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
127 pcg 1.91
128 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
129 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
130     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
131 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
132 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
133     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
134     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
135     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
136 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
137 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
138 pcg 1.86
139 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
140 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
141     memory leaks.
142     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
143 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
144     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
145 pcg 1.84
146 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
147     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
148 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
149    
150 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
151     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
152     of new features.
153 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
154     Highly correct stuff, that is...
155 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
156     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
157 root 1.80
158 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
159 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
160 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
161 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
162     so preselect it.
163 root 1.76
164 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
165     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
166     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
167 root 1.74
168 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
169 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
170     - new module Coro::Select.
171     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
172     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
173 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
174 root 1.72
175 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
176     - made lazy context switching the default.
177     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
178     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
179     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
180     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
181    
182 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
183 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
184 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
185     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
186     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
187     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
188     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
189 root 1.69
190 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
191     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
192     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
193     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
194    
195 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
196 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
197     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
198     without Event, which freezes).
199 root 1.65
200 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
201 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
202    
203 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
204 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
205 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
206     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
207     new ones.
208     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
209 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
210 root 1.60
211 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
212 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
213     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
214     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
215    
216 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
217 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
218     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
219     error.
220 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
221 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
222     - implemented terminate with args + join.
223 root 1.54
224 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
225 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
226 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
227     in various modules.
228     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
229 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
230 root 1.48
231 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
232 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
233     inside Coro::Handle.
234 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
235     speed reasons.
236     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
237     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
238     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
239 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
240 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
241     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
242     under some circumstances.
243     - other bugfixes.
244 root 1.43
245 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
246 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
247     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
248     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
249     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
250     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
251 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
252     syntax.
253 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
254 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
255 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
256 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
257 root 1.36
258 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
259 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
260 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
261     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
262 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
263 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
264 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
265     "Callback called exit" messages).
266 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
267     - much better Coro::Socket support.
268 root 1.31
269     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
270 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
271 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
272 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
273 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
274 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
275 root 1.28
276     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
277 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
278     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
279     - new module Coro::Socket.
280    
281 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
282 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
283 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
284     for yield.
285 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
286 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
287 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
288     perl-5.6.
289 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
290     - the idle process is now overriden
291     by default in Coro::Event.
292 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
293 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
294 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
295     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
296 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
297     non-blocking i/o.
298 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
299 root 1.16
300 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
301 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
302 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
303     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
304     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
305 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
306 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
307 root 1.13
308 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
309     - release candidate 1 ;)
310     - slightly nicer code.
311     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
312    
313 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
314     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
315 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
316     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
317     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
318 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
319     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
320 root 1.9
321 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
322     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
323     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
324    
325 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
326 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
327 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
328     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
329     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
330     coroutine-specific vars.
331 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
332 root 1.4
333 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
334 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
335     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
336     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
337 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
338 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
339     model. Still crude and subject to change.
340 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
341    
342 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
343     - implemented "async" attribute.
344     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
345     - added Coro::Channel.
346     - more testcases, still no docs.
347    
348 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
349     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
350