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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 1.189 3.3
6 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
7 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
8     documented and - hopefully - improved.
9 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
10 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
11 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
12     that could errronously trigger.
13 root 1.184
14 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
15 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
16 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
17 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
18     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
19     their coro replacements.
20 root 1.179
21 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
22     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
23     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
24     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
25     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
26     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
27     - save/restore tainted status.
28     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
29    
30 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
31     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
32 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
33 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
34 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
35 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
36 root 1.169
37 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
38     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
39    
40 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
41 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
42     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
43 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
44     pool (size currently hardcoded).
45 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
46 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
47 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
48 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
49 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
50     check for changed watchers.
51 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
52     per event.
53 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
54 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
55 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
56 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
57     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
58 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
59     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
60 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
61 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
62 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
63 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
64     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
65 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
66 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
67 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
68 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
69     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
70     if somebody asks for it :)
71 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
72     spuriously without the event having happened.
73 root 1.146
74 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
75 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
76     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
77 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
78     make LWP non-blocking.
79     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
80 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
81 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
82     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
83 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
84     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
85 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
86     by LWP(!!).
87     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
88 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
89     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
90     did already.
91 root 1.135
92 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
93     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
94     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
95 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
96     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
97     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
98 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
99 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
100 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
101 root 1.130
102 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
103 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
104    
105 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
106    
107 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
108 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
109     mark & sweep gc run.
110 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
111 root 1.125
112 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
113 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
114 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
115    
116 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
117 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
118 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
119 root 1.117 wrong package.
120 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
121     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
122 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
123     normally uses.
124 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
125 root 1.117
126 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
127     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
128    
129 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
130 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
131 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
132     - strict'ify some modules.
133 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
134 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
135     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
136 root 1.112
137 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
138     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
139     when 'l'inux method was used.
140    
141 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
142     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
143    
144 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
145 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
146 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
147     Coro::State::flush method.
148 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
149 root 1.106
150 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
151 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
152 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
153 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
154 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
155 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
156 root 1.100
157 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
158     - change of contact address.
159    
160 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
161 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
162 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
163 root 1.97
164 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
165 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
166 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
167     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
168 root 1.95
169 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
170     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
171    
172 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
173 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
174 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
175     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
176     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
177     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
178     fixable).
179 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
180 pcg 1.91
181 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
182 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
183     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
184 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
185 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
186     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
187     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
188     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
189 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
190 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
191 pcg 1.86
192 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
193 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
194     memory leaks.
195     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
196 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
197     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
198 pcg 1.84
199 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
200     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
201 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
202    
203 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
204     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
205     of new features.
206 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
207     Highly correct stuff, that is...
208 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
209     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
210 root 1.80
211 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
212 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
213 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
214 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
215     so preselect it.
216 root 1.76
217 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
218     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
219     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
220 root 1.74
221 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
222 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
223     - new module Coro::Select.
224     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
225     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
226 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
227 root 1.72
228 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
229     - made lazy context switching the default.
230     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
231     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
232     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
233     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
234    
235 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
236 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
237 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
238     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
239     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
240     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
241     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
242 root 1.69
243 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
244     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
245     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
246     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
247    
248 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
249 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
250     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
251     without Event, which freezes).
252 root 1.65
253 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
254 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
255    
256 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
257 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
258 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
259     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
260     new ones.
261     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
262 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
263 root 1.60
264 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
265 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
266     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
267     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
268    
269 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
270 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
271     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
272     error.
273 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
274 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
275     - implemented terminate with args + join.
276 root 1.54
277 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
278 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
279 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
280     in various modules.
281     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
282 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
283 root 1.48
284 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
285 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
286     inside Coro::Handle.
287 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
288     speed reasons.
289     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
290     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
291     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
292 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
293 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
294     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
295     under some circumstances.
296     - other bugfixes.
297 root 1.43
298 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
299 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
300     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
301     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
302     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
303     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
304 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
305     syntax.
306 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
307 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
308 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
309 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
310 root 1.36
311 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
312 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
313 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
314     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
315 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
316 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
317 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
318     "Callback called exit" messages).
319 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
320     - much better Coro::Socket support.
321 root 1.31
322     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
323 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
324 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
325 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
326 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
327 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
328 root 1.28
329     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
330 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
331     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
332     - new module Coro::Socket.
333    
334 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
335 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
336 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
337     for yield.
338 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
339 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
340 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
341     perl-5.6.
342 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
343     - the idle process is now overriden
344     by default in Coro::Event.
345 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
346 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
347 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
348     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
349 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
350     non-blocking i/o.
351 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
352 root 1.16
353 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
354 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
355 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
356     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
357     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
358 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
359 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
360 root 1.13
361 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
362     - release candidate 1 ;)
363     - slightly nicer code.
364     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
365    
366 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
367     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
368 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
369     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
370     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
371 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
372     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
373 root 1.9
374 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
375     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
376     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
377    
378 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
379 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
380 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
381     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
382     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
383     coroutine-specific vars.
384 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
385 root 1.4
386 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
387 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
388     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
389     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
390 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
391 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
392     model. Still crude and subject to change.
393 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
394    
395 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
396     - implemented "async" attribute.
397     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
398     - added Coro::Channel.
399     - more testcases, still no docs.
400    
401 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
402     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
403