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Revision: 1.168
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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 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
30     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
31     if somebody asks for it :)
32 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
33     spuriously without the event having happened.
34 root 1.146
35 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
36 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
37     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
38 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
39     make LWP non-blocking.
40     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
41 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
42 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
43     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
44 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
45     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
46 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
47     by LWP(!!).
48     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
49 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
50     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
51     did already.
52 root 1.135
53 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
54     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
55     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
56 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
57     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
58     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
59 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
60 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
61 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
62 root 1.130
63 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
64 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
65    
66 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
67    
68 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
69 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
70     mark & sweep gc run.
71 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
72 root 1.125
73 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
74 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
75 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
76    
77 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
78 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
79 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
80 root 1.117 wrong package.
81 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
82     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
83 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
84     normally uses.
85 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
86 root 1.117
87 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
88     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
89    
90 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
91 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
92 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
93     - strict'ify some modules.
94 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
95 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
96     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
97 root 1.112
98 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
99     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
100     when 'l'inux method was used.
101    
102 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
103     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
104    
105 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
106 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
107 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
108     Coro::State::flush method.
109 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
110 root 1.106
111 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
112 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
113 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
114 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
115 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
116 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
117 root 1.100
118 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
119     - change of contact address.
120    
121 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
122 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
123 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
124 root 1.97
125 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
126 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
127 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
128     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
129 root 1.95
130 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
131     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
132    
133 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
134 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
135 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
136     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
137     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
138     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
139     fixable).
140 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
141 pcg 1.91
142 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
143 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
144     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
145 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
146 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
147     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
148     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
149     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
150 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
151 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
152 pcg 1.86
153 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
154 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
155     memory leaks.
156     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
157 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
158     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
159 pcg 1.84
160 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
161     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
162 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
163    
164 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
165     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
166     of new features.
167 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
168     Highly correct stuff, that is...
169 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
170     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
171 root 1.80
172 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
173 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
174 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
175 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
176     so preselect it.
177 root 1.76
178 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
179     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
180     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
181 root 1.74
182 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
183 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
184     - new module Coro::Select.
185     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
186     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
187 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
188 root 1.72
189 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
190     - made lazy context switching the default.
191     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
192     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
193     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
194     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
195    
196 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
197 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
198 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
199     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
200     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
201     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
202     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
203 root 1.69
204 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
205     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
206     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
207     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
208    
209 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
210 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
211     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
212     without Event, which freezes).
213 root 1.65
214 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
215 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
216    
217 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
218 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
219 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
220     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
221     new ones.
222     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
223 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
224 root 1.60
225 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
226 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
227     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
228     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
229    
230 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
231 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
232     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
233     error.
234 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
235 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
236     - implemented terminate with args + join.
237 root 1.54
238 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
239 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
240 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
241     in various modules.
242     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
243 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
244 root 1.48
245 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
246 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
247     inside Coro::Handle.
248 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
249     speed reasons.
250     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
251     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
252     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
253 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
254 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
255     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
256     under some circumstances.
257     - other bugfixes.
258 root 1.43
259 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
260 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
261     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
262     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
263     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
264     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
265 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
266     syntax.
267 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
268 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
269 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
270 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
271 root 1.36
272 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
273 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
274 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
275     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
276 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
277 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
278 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
279     "Callback called exit" messages).
280 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
281     - much better Coro::Socket support.
282 root 1.31
283     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
284 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
285 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
286 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
287 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
288 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
289 root 1.28
290     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
291 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
292     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
293     - new module Coro::Socket.
294    
295 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
296 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
297 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
298     for yield.
299 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
300 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
301 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
302     perl-5.6.
303 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
304     - the idle process is now overriden
305     by default in Coro::Event.
306 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
307 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
308 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
309     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
310 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
311     non-blocking i/o.
312 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
313 root 1.16
314 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
315 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
316 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
317     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
318     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
319 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
320 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
321 root 1.13
322 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
323     - release candidate 1 ;)
324     - slightly nicer code.
325     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
326    
327 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
328     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
329 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
330     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
331     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
332 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
333     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
334 root 1.9
335 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
336     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
337     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
338    
339 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
340 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
341 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
342     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
343     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
344     coroutine-specific vars.
345 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
346 root 1.4
347 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
348 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
349     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
350     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
351 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
352 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
353     model. Still crude and subject to change.
354 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
355    
356 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
357     - implemented "async" attribute.
358     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
359     - added Coro::Channel.
360     - more testcases, still no docs.
361    
362 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
363     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
364