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Revision: 1.203
Committed: Mon Jan 22 18:45:17 2007 UTC (17 years, 4 months ago) by root
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CVS Tags: rel-3_41
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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 1.200 TODO: fast reloads in cf cause segfaults (coro_state_free->destroy->crash)
6 root 1.173
7 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
8 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
9     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
10 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
11     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
12     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
13     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
14     obsolete platforms.
15 root 1.202
16 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
17 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
18     but was rather flaky in practise.
19 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
20     it was reused.
21 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
22     in cede_notself.
23 root 1.197
24 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
25 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
26 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
27     documented and - hopefully - improved.
28 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
29 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
30 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
31     that could errronously trigger.
32 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
33 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
34     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
35 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
36 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
37 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
38     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
39     and 128k coros with async_pool).
40 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
41 root 1.184
42 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
43 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
44 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
45 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
46     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
47     their coro replacements.
48 root 1.179
49 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
50     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
51     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
52     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
53     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
54     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
55     - save/restore tainted status.
56     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
57    
58 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
59     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
60 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
61 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
62 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
63 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
64 root 1.169
65 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
66     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
67    
68 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
69 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
70     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
71 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
72     pool (size currently hardcoded).
73 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
74 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
75 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
76 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
77 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
78     check for changed watchers.
79 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
80     per event.
81 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
82 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
83 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
84 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
85     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
86 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
87     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
88 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
89 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
90 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
91 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
92     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
93 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
94 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
95 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
96 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
97     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
98     if somebody asks for it :)
99 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
100     spuriously without the event having happened.
101 root 1.146
102 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
103 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
104     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
105 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
106     make LWP non-blocking.
107     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
108 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
109 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
110     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
111 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
112     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
113 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
114     by LWP(!!).
115     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
116 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
117     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
118     did already.
119 root 1.135
120 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
121     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
122     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
123 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
124     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
125     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
126 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
127 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
128 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
129 root 1.130
130 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
131 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
132    
133 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
134    
135 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
136 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
137     mark & sweep gc run.
138 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
139 root 1.125
140 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
141 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
142 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
143    
144 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
145 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
146 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
147 root 1.117 wrong package.
148 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
149     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
150 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
151     normally uses.
152 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
153 root 1.117
154 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
155     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
156    
157 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
158 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
159 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
160     - strict'ify some modules.
161 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
162 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
163     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
164 root 1.112
165 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
166     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
167     when 'l'inux method was used.
168    
169 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
170     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
171    
172 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
173 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
174 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
175     Coro::State::flush method.
176 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
177 root 1.106
178 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
179 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
180 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
181 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
182 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
183 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
184 root 1.100
185 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
186     - change of contact address.
187    
188 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
189 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
190 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
191 root 1.97
192 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
193 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
194 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
195     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
196 root 1.95
197 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
198     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
199    
200 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
201 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
202 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
203     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
204     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
205     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
206     fixable).
207 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
208 pcg 1.91
209 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
210 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
211     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
212 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
213 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
214     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
215     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
216     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
217 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
218 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
219 pcg 1.86
220 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
221 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
222     memory leaks.
223     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
224 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
225     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
226 pcg 1.84
227 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
228     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
229 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
230    
231 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
232     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
233     of new features.
234 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
235     Highly correct stuff, that is...
236 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
237     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
238 root 1.80
239 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
240 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
241 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
242 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
243     so preselect it.
244 root 1.76
245 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
246     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
247     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
248 root 1.74
249 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
250 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
251     - new module Coro::Select.
252     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
253     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
254 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
255 root 1.72
256 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
257     - made lazy context switching the default.
258     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
259     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
260     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
261     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
262    
263 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
264 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
265 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
266     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
267     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
268     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
269     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
270 root 1.69
271 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
272     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
273     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
274     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
275    
276 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
277 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
278     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
279     without Event, which freezes).
280 root 1.65
281 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
282 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
283    
284 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
285 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
286 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
287     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
288     new ones.
289     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
290 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
291 root 1.60
292 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
293 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
294     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
295     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
296    
297 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
298 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
299     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
300     error.
301 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
302 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
303     - implemented terminate with args + join.
304 root 1.54
305 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
306 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
307 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
308     in various modules.
309     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
310 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
311 root 1.48
312 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
313 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
314     inside Coro::Handle.
315 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
316     speed reasons.
317     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
318     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
319     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
320 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
321 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
322     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
323     under some circumstances.
324     - other bugfixes.
325 root 1.43
326 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
327 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
328     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
329     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
330     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
331     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
332 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
333     syntax.
334 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
335 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
336 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
337 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
338 root 1.36
339 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
340 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
341 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
342     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
343 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
344 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
345 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
346     "Callback called exit" messages).
347 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
348     - much better Coro::Socket support.
349 root 1.31
350     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
351 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
352 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
353 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
354 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
355 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
356 root 1.28
357     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
358 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
359     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
360     - new module Coro::Socket.
361    
362 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
363 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
364 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
365     for yield.
366 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
367 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
368 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
369     perl-5.6.
370 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
371     - the idle process is now overriden
372     by default in Coro::Event.
373 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
374 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
375 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
376     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
377 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
378     non-blocking i/o.
379 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
380 root 1.16
381 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
382 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
383 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
384     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
385     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
386 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
387 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
388 root 1.13
389 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
390     - release candidate 1 ;)
391     - slightly nicer code.
392     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
393    
394 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
395     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
396 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
397     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
398     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
399 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
400     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
401 root 1.9
402 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
403     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
404     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
405    
406 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
407 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
408 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
409     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
410     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
411     coroutine-specific vars.
412 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
413 root 1.4
414 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
415 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
416     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
417     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
418 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
419 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
420     model. Still crude and subject to change.
421 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
422    
423 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
424     - implemented "async" attribute.
425     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
426     - added Coro::Channel.
427     - more testcases, still no docs.
428    
429 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
430     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
431