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Revision: 1.172
Committed: Sun Dec 3 22:50:06 2006 UTC (17 years, 5 months ago) by root
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.169 TODO: transfer flags must be per state
4    
5 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
6     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
7    
8 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
9 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
10     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
11 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
12     pool (size currently hardcoded).
13 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
14 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
15 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
16 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
17 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
18     check for changed watchers.
19 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
20     per event.
21 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
22 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
23 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
24 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
25     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
26 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
27     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
28 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
29 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
30 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
31 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
32     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
33 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
34 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
35 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
36 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
37     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
38     if somebody asks for it :)
39 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
40     spuriously without the event having happened.
41 root 1.146
42 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
43 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
44     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
45 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
46     make LWP non-blocking.
47     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
48 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
49 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
50     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
51 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
52     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
53 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
54     by LWP(!!).
55     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
56 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
57     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
58     did already.
59 root 1.135
60 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
61     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
62     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
63 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
64     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
65     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
66 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
67 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
68 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
69 root 1.130
70 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
71 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
72    
73 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
74    
75 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
76 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
77     mark & sweep gc run.
78 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
79 root 1.125
80 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
81 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
82 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
83    
84 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
85 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
86 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
87 root 1.117 wrong package.
88 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
89     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
90 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
91     normally uses.
92 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
93 root 1.117
94 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
95     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
96    
97 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
98 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
99 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
100     - strict'ify some modules.
101 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
102 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
103     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
104 root 1.112
105 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
106     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
107     when 'l'inux method was used.
108    
109 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
110     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
111    
112 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
113 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
114 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
115     Coro::State::flush method.
116 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
117 root 1.106
118 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
119 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
120 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
121 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
122 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
123 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
124 root 1.100
125 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
126     - change of contact address.
127    
128 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
129 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
130 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
131 root 1.97
132 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
133 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
134 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
135     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
136 root 1.95
137 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
138     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
139    
140 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
141 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
142 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
143     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
144     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
145     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
146     fixable).
147 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
148 pcg 1.91
149 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
150 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
151     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
152 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
153 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
154     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
155     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
156     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
157 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
158 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
159 pcg 1.86
160 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
161 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
162     memory leaks.
163     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
164 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
165     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
166 pcg 1.84
167 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
168     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
169 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
170    
171 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
172     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
173     of new features.
174 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
175     Highly correct stuff, that is...
176 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
177     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
178 root 1.80
179 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
180 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
181 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
182 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
183     so preselect it.
184 root 1.76
185 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
186     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
187     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
188 root 1.74
189 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
190 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
191     - new module Coro::Select.
192     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
193     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
194 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
195 root 1.72
196 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
197     - made lazy context switching the default.
198     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
199     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
200     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
201     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
202    
203 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
204 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
205 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
206     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
207     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
208     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
209     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
210 root 1.69
211 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
212     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
213     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
214     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
215    
216 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
217 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
218     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
219     without Event, which freezes).
220 root 1.65
221 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
222 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
223    
224 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
225 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
226 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
227     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
228     new ones.
229     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
230 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
231 root 1.60
232 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
233 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
234     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
235     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
236    
237 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
238 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
239     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
240     error.
241 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
242 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
243     - implemented terminate with args + join.
244 root 1.54
245 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
246 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
247 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
248     in various modules.
249     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
250 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
251 root 1.48
252 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
253 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
254     inside Coro::Handle.
255 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
256     speed reasons.
257     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
258     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
259     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
260 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
261 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
262     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
263     under some circumstances.
264     - other bugfixes.
265 root 1.43
266 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
267 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
268     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
269     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
270     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
271     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
272 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
273     syntax.
274 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
275 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
276 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
277 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
278 root 1.36
279 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
280 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
281 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
282     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
283 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
284 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
285 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
286     "Callback called exit" messages).
287 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
288     - much better Coro::Socket support.
289 root 1.31
290     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
291 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
292 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
293 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
294 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
295 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
296 root 1.28
297     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
298 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
299     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
300     - new module Coro::Socket.
301    
302 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
303 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
304 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
305     for yield.
306 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
307 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
308 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
309     perl-5.6.
310 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
311     - the idle process is now overriden
312     by default in Coro::Event.
313 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
314 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
315 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
316     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
317 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
318     non-blocking i/o.
319 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
320 root 1.16
321 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
322 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
323 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
324     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
325     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
326 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
327 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
328 root 1.13
329 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
330     - release candidate 1 ;)
331     - slightly nicer code.
332     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
333    
334 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
335     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
336 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
337     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
338     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
339 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
340     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
341 root 1.9
342 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
343     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
344     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
345    
346 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
347 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
348 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
349     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
350     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
351     coroutine-specific vars.
352 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
353 root 1.4
354 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
355 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
356     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
357     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
358 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
359 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
360     model. Still crude and subject to change.
361 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
362    
363 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
364     - implemented "async" attribute.
365     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
366     - added Coro::Channel.
367     - more testcases, still no docs.
368    
369 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
370     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
371