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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 1.191 TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
5 root 1.173
6 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
7     but was rather flaky in practise.
8    
9 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
10 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
11 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
12     documented and - hopefully - improved.
13 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
14 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
15 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
16     that could errronously trigger.
17 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
18 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
19     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
20 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
21 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
22 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
23     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
24     and 128k coros with async_pool).
25 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
26 root 1.184
27 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
28 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
29 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
30 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
31     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
32     their coro replacements.
33 root 1.179
34 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
35     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
36     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
37     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
38     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
39     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
40     - save/restore tainted status.
41     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
42    
43 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
44     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
45 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
46 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
47 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
48 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
49 root 1.169
50 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
51     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
52    
53 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
54 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
55     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
56 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
57     pool (size currently hardcoded).
58 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
59 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
60 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
61 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
62 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
63     check for changed watchers.
64 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
65     per event.
66 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
67 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
68 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
69 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
70     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
71 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
72     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
73 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
74 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
75 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
76 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
77     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
78 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
79 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
80 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
81 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
82     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
83     if somebody asks for it :)
84 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
85     spuriously without the event having happened.
86 root 1.146
87 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
88 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
89     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
90 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
91     make LWP non-blocking.
92     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
93 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
94 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
95     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
96 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
97     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
98 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
99     by LWP(!!).
100     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
101 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
102     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
103     did already.
104 root 1.135
105 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
106     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
107     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
108 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
109     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
110     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
111 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
112 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
113 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
114 root 1.130
115 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
116 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
117    
118 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
119    
120 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
121 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
122     mark & sweep gc run.
123 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
124 root 1.125
125 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
126 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
127 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
128    
129 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
130 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
131 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
132 root 1.117 wrong package.
133 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
134     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
135 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
136     normally uses.
137 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
138 root 1.117
139 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
140     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
141    
142 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
143 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
144 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
145     - strict'ify some modules.
146 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
147 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
148     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
149 root 1.112
150 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
151     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
152     when 'l'inux method was used.
153    
154 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
155     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
156    
157 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
158 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
159 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
160     Coro::State::flush method.
161 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
162 root 1.106
163 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
164 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
165 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
166 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
167 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
168 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
169 root 1.100
170 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
171     - change of contact address.
172    
173 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
174 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
175 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
176 root 1.97
177 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
178 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
179 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
180     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
181 root 1.95
182 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
183     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
184    
185 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
186 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
187 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
188     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
189     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
190     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
191     fixable).
192 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
193 pcg 1.91
194 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
195 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
196     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
197 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
198 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
199     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
200     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
201     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
202 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
203 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
204 pcg 1.86
205 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
206 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
207     memory leaks.
208     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
209 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
210     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
211 pcg 1.84
212 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
213     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
214 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
215    
216 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
217     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
218     of new features.
219 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
220     Highly correct stuff, that is...
221 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
222     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
223 root 1.80
224 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
225 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
226 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
227 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
228     so preselect it.
229 root 1.76
230 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
231     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
232     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
233 root 1.74
234 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
235 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
236     - new module Coro::Select.
237     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
238     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
239 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
240 root 1.72
241 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
242     - made lazy context switching the default.
243     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
244     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
245     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
246     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
247    
248 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
249 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
250 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
251     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
252     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
253     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
254     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
255 root 1.69
256 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
257     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
258     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
259     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
260    
261 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
262 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
263     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
264     without Event, which freezes).
265 root 1.65
266 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
267 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
268    
269 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
270 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
271 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
272     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
273     new ones.
274     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
275 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
276 root 1.60
277 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
278 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
279     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
280     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
281    
282 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
283 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
284     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
285     error.
286 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
287 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
288     - implemented terminate with args + join.
289 root 1.54
290 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
291 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
292 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
293     in various modules.
294     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
295 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
296 root 1.48
297 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
298 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
299     inside Coro::Handle.
300 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
301     speed reasons.
302     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
303     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
304     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
305 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
306 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
307     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
308     under some circumstances.
309     - other bugfixes.
310 root 1.43
311 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
312 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
313     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
314     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
315     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
316     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
317 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
318     syntax.
319 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
320 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
321 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
322 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
323 root 1.36
324 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
325 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
326 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
327     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
328 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
329 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
330 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
331     "Callback called exit" messages).
332 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
333     - much better Coro::Socket support.
334 root 1.31
335     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
336 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
337 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
338 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
339 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
340 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
341 root 1.28
342     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
343 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
344     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
345     - new module Coro::Socket.
346    
347 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
348 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
349 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
350     for yield.
351 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
352 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
353 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
354     perl-5.6.
355 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
356     - the idle process is now overriden
357     by default in Coro::Event.
358 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
359 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
360 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
361     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
362 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
363     non-blocking i/o.
364 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
365 root 1.16
366 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
367 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
368 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
369     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
370     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
371 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
372 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
373 root 1.13
374 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
375     - release candidate 1 ;)
376     - slightly nicer code.
377     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
378    
379 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
380     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
381 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
382     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
383     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
384 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
385     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
386 root 1.9
387 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
388     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
389     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
390    
391 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
392 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
393 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
394     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
395     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
396     coroutine-specific vars.
397 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
398 root 1.4
399 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
400 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
401     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
402     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
403 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
404 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
405     model. Still crude and subject to change.
406 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
407    
408 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
409     - implemented "async" attribute.
410     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
411     - added Coro::Channel.
412     - more testcases, still no docs.
413    
414 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
415     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
416