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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.173 TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's
4    
5 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
6    
7 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
8     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
9     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
10     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
11     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
12     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
13     - save/restore tainted status.
14     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
15    
16 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
17     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
18 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
19 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
20 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
21 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
22 root 1.169
23 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
24     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
25    
26 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
27 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
28     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
29 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
30     pool (size currently hardcoded).
31 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
32 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
33 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
34 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
35 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
36     check for changed watchers.
37 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
38     per event.
39 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
40 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
41 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
42 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
43     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
44 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
45     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
46 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
47 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
48 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
49 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
50     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
51 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
52 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
53 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
54 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
55     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
56     if somebody asks for it :)
57 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
58     spuriously without the event having happened.
59 root 1.146
60 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
61 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
62     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
63 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
64     make LWP non-blocking.
65     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
66 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
67 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
68     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
69 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
70     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
71 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
72     by LWP(!!).
73     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
74 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
75     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
76     did already.
77 root 1.135
78 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
79     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
80     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
81 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
82     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
83     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
84 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
85 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
86 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
87 root 1.130
88 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
89 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
90    
91 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
92    
93 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
94 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
95     mark & sweep gc run.
96 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
97 root 1.125
98 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
99 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
100 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
101    
102 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
103 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
104 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
105 root 1.117 wrong package.
106 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
107     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
108 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
109     normally uses.
110 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
111 root 1.117
112 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
113     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
114    
115 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
116 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
117 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
118     - strict'ify some modules.
119 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
120 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
121     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
122 root 1.112
123 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
124     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
125     when 'l'inux method was used.
126    
127 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
128     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
129    
130 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
131 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
132 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
133     Coro::State::flush method.
134 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
135 root 1.106
136 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
137 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
138 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
139 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
140 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
141 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
142 root 1.100
143 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
144     - change of contact address.
145    
146 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
147 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
148 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
149 root 1.97
150 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
151 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
152 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
153     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
154 root 1.95
155 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
156     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
157    
158 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
159 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
160 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
161     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
162     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
163     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
164     fixable).
165 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
166 pcg 1.91
167 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
168 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
169     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
170 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
171 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
172     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
173     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
174     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
175 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
176 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
177 pcg 1.86
178 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
179 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
180     memory leaks.
181     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
182 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
183     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
184 pcg 1.84
185 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
186     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
187 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
188    
189 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
190     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
191     of new features.
192 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
193     Highly correct stuff, that is...
194 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
195     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
196 root 1.80
197 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
198 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
199 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
200 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
201     so preselect it.
202 root 1.76
203 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
204     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
205     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
206 root 1.74
207 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
208 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
209     - new module Coro::Select.
210     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
211     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
212 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
213 root 1.72
214 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
215     - made lazy context switching the default.
216     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
217     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
218     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
219     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
220    
221 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
222 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
223 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
224     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
225     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
226     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
227     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
228 root 1.69
229 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
230     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
231     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
232     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
233    
234 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
235 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
236     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
237     without Event, which freezes).
238 root 1.65
239 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
240 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
241    
242 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
243 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
244 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
245     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
246     new ones.
247     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
248 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
249 root 1.60
250 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
251 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
252     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
253     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
254    
255 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
256 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
257     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
258     error.
259 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
260 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
261     - implemented terminate with args + join.
262 root 1.54
263 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
264 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
265 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
266     in various modules.
267     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
268 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
269 root 1.48
270 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
271 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
272     inside Coro::Handle.
273 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
274     speed reasons.
275     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
276     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
277     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
278 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
279 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
280     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
281     under some circumstances.
282     - other bugfixes.
283 root 1.43
284 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
285 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
286     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
287     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
288     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
289     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
290 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
291     syntax.
292 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
293 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
294 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
295 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
296 root 1.36
297 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
298 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
299 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
300     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
301 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
302 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
303 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
304     "Callback called exit" messages).
305 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
306     - much better Coro::Socket support.
307 root 1.31
308     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
309 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
310 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
311 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
312 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
313 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
314 root 1.28
315     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
316 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
317     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
318     - new module Coro::Socket.
319    
320 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
321 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
322 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
323     for yield.
324 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
325 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
326 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
327     perl-5.6.
328 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
329     - the idle process is now overriden
330     by default in Coro::Event.
331 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
332 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
333 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
334     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
335 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
336     non-blocking i/o.
337 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
338 root 1.16
339 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
340 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
341 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
342     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
343     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
344 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
345 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
346 root 1.13
347 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
348     - release candidate 1 ;)
349     - slightly nicer code.
350     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
351    
352 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
353     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
354 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
355     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
356     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
357 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
358     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
359 root 1.9
360 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
361     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
362     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
363    
364 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
365 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
366 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
367     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
368     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
369     coroutine-specific vars.
370 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
371 root 1.4
372 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
373 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
374     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
375     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
376 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
377 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
378     model. Still crude and subject to change.
379 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
380    
381 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
382     - implemented "async" attribute.
383     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
384     - added Coro::Channel.
385     - more testcases, still no docs.
386    
387 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
388     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
389