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Revision: 1.163
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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 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
5     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
6     - implement a new stack sharing algorithm.
7 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
8 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
9 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
10 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
11 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
12 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
13     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
14 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
15     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
16 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
17 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
18 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
19 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
20     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
21 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
22 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
23 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
24 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
25     spuriously without the event having happened.
26 root 1.146
27 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
28 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
29     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
30 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
31     make LWP non-blocking.
32     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
33 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
34 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
35     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
36 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
37     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
38 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
39     by LWP(!!).
40     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
41 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
42     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
43     did already.
44 root 1.135
45 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
46     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
47     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
48 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
49     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
50     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
51 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
52 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
53 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
54 root 1.130
55 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
56 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
57    
58 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
59    
60 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
61 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
62     mark & sweep gc run.
63 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
64 root 1.125
65 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
66 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
67 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
68    
69 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
70 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
71 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
72 root 1.117 wrong package.
73 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
74     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
75 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
76     normally uses.
77 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
78 root 1.117
79 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
80     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
81    
82 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
83 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
84 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
85     - strict'ify some modules.
86 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
87 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
88     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
89 root 1.112
90 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
91     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
92     when 'l'inux method was used.
93    
94 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
95     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
96    
97 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
98 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
99 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
100     Coro::State::flush method.
101 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
102 root 1.106
103 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
104 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
105 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
106 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
107 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
108 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
109 root 1.100
110 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
111     - change of contact address.
112    
113 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
114 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
115 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
116 root 1.97
117 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
118 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
119 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
120     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
121 root 1.95
122 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
123     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
124    
125 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
126 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
127 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
128     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
129     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
130     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
131     fixable).
132 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
133 pcg 1.91
134 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
135 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
136     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
137 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
138 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
139     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
140     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
141     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
142 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
143 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
144 pcg 1.86
145 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
146 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
147     memory leaks.
148     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
149 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
150     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
151 pcg 1.84
152 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
153     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
154 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
155    
156 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
157     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
158     of new features.
159 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
160     Highly correct stuff, that is...
161 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
162     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
163 root 1.80
164 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
165 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
166 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
167 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
168     so preselect it.
169 root 1.76
170 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
171     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
172     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
173 root 1.74
174 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
175 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
176     - new module Coro::Select.
177     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
178     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
179 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
180 root 1.72
181 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
182     - made lazy context switching the default.
183     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
184     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
185     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
186     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
187    
188 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
189 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
190 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
191     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
192     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
193     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
194     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
195 root 1.69
196 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
197     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
198     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
199     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
200    
201 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
202 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
203     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
204     without Event, which freezes).
205 root 1.65
206 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
207 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
208    
209 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
210 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
211 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
212     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
213     new ones.
214     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
215 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
216 root 1.60
217 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
218 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
219     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
220     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
221    
222 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
223 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
224     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
225     error.
226 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
227 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
228     - implemented terminate with args + join.
229 root 1.54
230 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
231 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
232 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
233     in various modules.
234     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
235 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
236 root 1.48
237 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
238 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
239     inside Coro::Handle.
240 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
241     speed reasons.
242     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
243     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
244     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
245 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
246 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
247     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
248     under some circumstances.
249     - other bugfixes.
250 root 1.43
251 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
252 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
253     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
254     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
255     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
256     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
257 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
258     syntax.
259 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
260 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
261 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
262 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
263 root 1.36
264 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
265 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
266 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
267     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
268 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
269 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
270 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
271     "Callback called exit" messages).
272 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
273     - much better Coro::Socket support.
274 root 1.31
275     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
276 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
277 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
278 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
279 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
280 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
281 root 1.28
282     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
283 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
284     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
285     - new module Coro::Socket.
286    
287 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
288 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
289 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
290     for yield.
291 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
292 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
293 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
294     perl-5.6.
295 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
296     - the idle process is now overriden
297     by default in Coro::Event.
298 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
299 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
300 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
301     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
302 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
303     non-blocking i/o.
304 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
305 root 1.16
306 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
307 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
308 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
309     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
310     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
311 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
312 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
313 root 1.13
314 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
315     - release candidate 1 ;)
316     - slightly nicer code.
317     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
318    
319 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
320     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
321 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
322     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
323     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
324 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
325     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
326 root 1.9
327 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
328     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
329     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
330    
331 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
332 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
333 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
334     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
335     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
336     coroutine-specific vars.
337 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
338 root 1.4
339 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
340 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
341     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
342     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
343 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
344 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
345     model. Still crude and subject to change.
346 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
347    
348 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
349     - implemented "async" attribute.
350     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
351     - added Coro::Channel.
352     - more testcases, still no docs.
353    
354 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
355     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
356