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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 root 1.180 TODO: "internals mode"
5 root 1.173
6 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
7 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
8 root 1.179
9 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
10     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
11     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
12     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
13     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
14     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
15     - save/restore tainted status.
16     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
17    
18 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
19     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
20 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
21 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
22 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
23 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
24 root 1.169
25 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
26     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
27    
28 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
29 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
30     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
31 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
32     pool (size currently hardcoded).
33 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
34 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
35 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
36 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
37 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
38     check for changed watchers.
39 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
40     per event.
41 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
42 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
43 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
44 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
45     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
46 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
47     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
48 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
49 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
50 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
51 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
52     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
53 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
54 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
55 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
56 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
57     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
58     if somebody asks for it :)
59 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
60     spuriously without the event having happened.
61 root 1.146
62 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
63 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
64     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
65 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
66     make LWP non-blocking.
67     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
68 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
69 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
70     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
71 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
72     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
73 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
74     by LWP(!!).
75     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
76 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
77     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
78     did already.
79 root 1.135
80 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
81     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
82     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
83 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
84     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
85     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
86 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
87 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
88 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
89 root 1.130
90 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
91 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
92    
93 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
94    
95 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
96 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
97     mark & sweep gc run.
98 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
99 root 1.125
100 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
101 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
102 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
103    
104 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
105 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
106 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
107 root 1.117 wrong package.
108 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
109     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
110 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
111     normally uses.
112 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
113 root 1.117
114 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
115     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
116    
117 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
118 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
119 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
120     - strict'ify some modules.
121 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
122 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
123     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
124 root 1.112
125 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
126     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
127     when 'l'inux method was used.
128    
129 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
130     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
131    
132 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
133 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
134 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
135     Coro::State::flush method.
136 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
137 root 1.106
138 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
139 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
140 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
141 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
142 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
143 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
144 root 1.100
145 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
146     - change of contact address.
147    
148 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
149 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
150 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
151 root 1.97
152 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
153 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
154 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
155     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
156 root 1.95
157 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
158     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
159    
160 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
161 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
162 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
163     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
164     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
165     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
166     fixable).
167 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
168 pcg 1.91
169 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
170 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
171     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
172 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
173 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
174     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
175     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
176     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
177 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
178 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
179 pcg 1.86
180 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
181 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
182     memory leaks.
183     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
184 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
185     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
186 pcg 1.84
187 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
188     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
189 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
190    
191 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
192     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
193     of new features.
194 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
195     Highly correct stuff, that is...
196 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
197     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
198 root 1.80
199 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
200 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
201 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
202 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
203     so preselect it.
204 root 1.76
205 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
206     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
207     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
208 root 1.74
209 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
210 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
211     - new module Coro::Select.
212     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
213     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
214 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
215 root 1.72
216 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
217     - made lazy context switching the default.
218     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
219     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
220     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
221     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
222    
223 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
224 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
225 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
226     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
227     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
228     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
229     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
230 root 1.69
231 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
232     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
233     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
234     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
235    
236 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
237 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
238     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
239     without Event, which freezes).
240 root 1.65
241 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
242 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
243    
244 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
245 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
246 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
247     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
248     new ones.
249     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
250 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
251 root 1.60
252 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
253 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
254     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
255     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
256    
257 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
258 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
259     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
260     error.
261 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
262 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
263     - implemented terminate with args + join.
264 root 1.54
265 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
266 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
267 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
268     in various modules.
269     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
270 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
271 root 1.48
272 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
273 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
274     inside Coro::Handle.
275 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
276     speed reasons.
277     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
278     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
279     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
280 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
281 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
282     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
283     under some circumstances.
284     - other bugfixes.
285 root 1.43
286 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
287 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
288     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
289     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
290     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
291     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
292 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
293     syntax.
294 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
295 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
296 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
297 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
298 root 1.36
299 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
300 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
301 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
302     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
303 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
304 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
305 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
306     "Callback called exit" messages).
307 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
308     - much better Coro::Socket support.
309 root 1.31
310     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
311 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
312 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
313 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
314 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
315 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
316 root 1.28
317     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
318 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
319     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
320     - new module Coro::Socket.
321    
322 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
323 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
324 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
325     for yield.
326 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
327 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
328 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
329     perl-5.6.
330 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
331     - the idle process is now overriden
332     by default in Coro::Event.
333 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
334 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
335 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
336     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
337 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
338     non-blocking i/o.
339 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
340 root 1.16
341 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
342 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
343 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
344     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
345     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
346 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
347 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
348 root 1.13
349 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
350     - release candidate 1 ;)
351     - slightly nicer code.
352     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
353    
354 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
355     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
356 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
357     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
358     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
359 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
360     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
361 root 1.9
362 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
363     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
364     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
365    
366 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
367 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
368 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
369     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
370     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
371     coroutine-specific vars.
372 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
373 root 1.4
374 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
375 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
376     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
377     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
378 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
379 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
380     model. Still crude and subject to change.
381 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
382    
383 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
384     - implemented "async" attribute.
385     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
386     - added Coro::Channel.
387     - more testcases, still no docs.
388    
389 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
390     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
391