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Revision: 1.167
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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 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
7     pool (size currently hardcoded).
8 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
9 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
10 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
11 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
12 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
13     check for changed watchers.
14 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
15 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
16 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
17 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
18     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
19 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
20     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
21 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
22 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
23 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
24 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
25     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
26 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
27 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
28 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
29 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
30     spuriously without the event having happened.
31 root 1.146
32 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
33 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
34     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
35 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
36     make LWP non-blocking.
37     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
38 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
39 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
40     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
41 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
42     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
43 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
44     by LWP(!!).
45     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
46 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
47     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
48     did already.
49 root 1.135
50 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
51     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
52     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
53 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
54     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
55     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
56 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
57 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
58 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
59 root 1.130
60 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
61 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
62    
63 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
64    
65 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
66 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
67     mark & sweep gc run.
68 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
69 root 1.125
70 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
71 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
72 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
73    
74 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
75 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
76 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
77 root 1.117 wrong package.
78 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
79     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
80 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
81     normally uses.
82 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
83 root 1.117
84 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
85     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
86    
87 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
88 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
89 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
90     - strict'ify some modules.
91 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
92 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
93     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
94 root 1.112
95 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
96     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
97     when 'l'inux method was used.
98    
99 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
100     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
101    
102 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
103 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
104 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
105     Coro::State::flush method.
106 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
107 root 1.106
108 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
109 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
110 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
111 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
112 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
113 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
114 root 1.100
115 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
116     - change of contact address.
117    
118 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
119 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
120 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
121 root 1.97
122 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
123 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
124 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
125     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
126 root 1.95
127 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
128     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
129    
130 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
131 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
132 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
133     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
134     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
135     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
136     fixable).
137 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
138 pcg 1.91
139 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
140 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
141     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
142 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
143 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
144     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
145     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
146     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
147 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
148 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
149 pcg 1.86
150 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
151 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
152     memory leaks.
153     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
154 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
155     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
156 pcg 1.84
157 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
158     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
159 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
160    
161 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
162     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
163     of new features.
164 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
165     Highly correct stuff, that is...
166 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
167     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
168 root 1.80
169 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
170 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
171 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
172 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
173     so preselect it.
174 root 1.76
175 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
176     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
177     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
178 root 1.74
179 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
180 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
181     - new module Coro::Select.
182     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
183     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
184 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
185 root 1.72
186 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
187     - made lazy context switching the default.
188     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
189     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
190     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
191     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
192    
193 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
194 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
195 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
196     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
197     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
198     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
199     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
200 root 1.69
201 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
202     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
203     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
204     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
205    
206 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
207 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
208     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
209     without Event, which freezes).
210 root 1.65
211 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
212 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
213    
214 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
215 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
216 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
217     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
218     new ones.
219     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
220 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
221 root 1.60
222 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
223 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
224     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
225     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
226    
227 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
228 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
229     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
230     error.
231 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
232 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
233     - implemented terminate with args + join.
234 root 1.54
235 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
236 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
237 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
238     in various modules.
239     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
240 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
241 root 1.48
242 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
243 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
244     inside Coro::Handle.
245 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
246     speed reasons.
247     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
248     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
249     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
250 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
251 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
252     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
253     under some circumstances.
254     - other bugfixes.
255 root 1.43
256 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
257 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
258     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
259     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
260     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
261     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
262 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
263     syntax.
264 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
265 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
266 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
267 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
268 root 1.36
269 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
270 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
271 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
272     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
273 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
274 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
275 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
276     "Callback called exit" messages).
277 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
278     - much better Coro::Socket support.
279 root 1.31
280     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
281 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
282 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
283 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
284 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
285 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
286 root 1.28
287     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
288 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
289     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
290     - new module Coro::Socket.
291    
292 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
293 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
294 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
295     for yield.
296 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
297 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
298 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
299     perl-5.6.
300 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
301     - the idle process is now overriden
302     by default in Coro::Event.
303 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
304 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
305 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
306     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
307 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
308     non-blocking i/o.
309 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
310 root 1.16
311 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
312 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
313 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
314     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
315     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
316 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
317 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
318 root 1.13
319 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
320     - release candidate 1 ;)
321     - slightly nicer code.
322     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
323    
324 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
325     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
326 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
327     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
328     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
329 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
330     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
331 root 1.9
332 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
333     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
334     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
335    
336 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
337 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
338 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
339     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
340     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
341     coroutine-specific vars.
342 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
343 root 1.4
344 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
345 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
346     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
347     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
348 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
349 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
350     model. Still crude and subject to change.
351 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
352    
353 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
354     - implemented "async" attribute.
355     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
356     - added Coro::Channel.
357     - more testcases, still no docs.
358    
359 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
360     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
361