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Revision: 1.294
Committed: Fri Nov 30 15:26:41 2007 UTC (16 years, 5 months ago) by root
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.218 TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
4 root 1.226 TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
5     (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 root 1.247 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7 root 1.173
8 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
9 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
10     and Coro::Handle.
11    
12 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
13 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
14 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
15 root 1.290
16 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
17 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
18 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
19 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
20     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
21     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
22 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
23 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
24     directly supported by Coro.
25     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
26     stuff in Coro::Util.
27 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
28 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
29 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
30 root 1.282
31 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
32 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
33 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
34     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
35 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
36     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
37     This also catches recursive invocations.
38 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
39 root 1.277
40 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
41     - port to threaded perls.
42    
43 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
44 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
45     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
46 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
47     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
48 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
49     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
50     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
51     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
52     speeds up context switching a bit.
53 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
54 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
55 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
56     resulting in races between coroutines.
57     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
58 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
59     an unrelated coroutine.
60 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
61     more detail in Coro::State.
62 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
63     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
64 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
65     invalidating pointers.
66 root 1.264
67 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
68 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
69     - minor code cleanups.
70    
71 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
72 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
73 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
74     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
75     or use tracing).
76     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
77 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
78     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
79 root 1.258
80 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
81 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
82     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
83 root 1.255
84 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
85 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
86 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
87     debugging, tracing and much more.
88 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
89     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
90     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
91     flags.
92 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
93 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
94 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
95     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
96 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
97 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
98 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
99 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
100 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
101     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
102     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
103 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
104 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
105 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
106 root 1.232
107 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
108 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
109    
110 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
111     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
112 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
113 root 1.227
114 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
115 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
116     pst's sometimes.
117 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
118 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
119     be threadsafe...).
120     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
121     but stateful semantics.
122 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
123     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
124 root 1.223
125     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
126 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
127 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
128 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
129     (EXPERIMENTAL).
130 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
131     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
132     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
133     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
134 root 1.217
135 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
136 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
137     it by default.
138     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
139     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
140     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
141 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
142 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
143 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
144     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
145     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
146     performance.
147 root 1.211
148 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
149 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
150     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
151    
152 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
153     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
154     them without asking.
155    
156 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
157 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
158     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
159 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
160     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
161 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
162     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
163 root 1.204
164 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
165 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
166     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
167 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
168     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
169     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
170     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
171     obsolete platforms.
172 root 1.202
173 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
174 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
175     but was rather flaky in practise.
176 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
177     it was reused.
178 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
179     in cede_notself.
180 root 1.197
181 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
182 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
183 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
184     documented and - hopefully - improved.
185 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
186 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
187 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
188     that could errronously trigger.
189 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
190 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
191     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
192 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
193 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
194 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
195     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
196     and 128k coros with async_pool).
197 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
198 root 1.184
199 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
200 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
201 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
202 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
203     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
204     their coro replacements.
205 root 1.179
206 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
207     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
208     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
209     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
210     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
211     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
212     - save/restore tainted status.
213     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
214    
215 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
216     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
217 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
218 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
219 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
220 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
221 root 1.169
222 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
223     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
224    
225 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
226 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
227     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
228 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
229     pool (size currently hardcoded).
230 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
231 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
232 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
233 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
234 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
235     check for changed watchers.
236 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
237     per event.
238 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
239 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
240 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
241 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
242     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
243 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
244     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
245 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
246 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
247 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
248 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
249     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
250 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
251 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
252 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
253 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
254     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
255     if somebody asks for it :)
256 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
257     spuriously without the event having happened.
258 root 1.146
259 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
260 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
261     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
262 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
263     make LWP non-blocking.
264     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
265 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
266 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
267     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
268 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
269     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
270 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
271     by LWP(!!).
272     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
273 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
274     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
275     did already.
276 root 1.135
277 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
278     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
279     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
280 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
281     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
282     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
283 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
284 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
285 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
286 root 1.130
287 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
288 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
289    
290 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
291    
292 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
293 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
294     mark & sweep gc run.
295 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
296 root 1.125
297 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
298 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
299 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
300    
301 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
302 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
303 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
304 root 1.117 wrong package.
305 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
306     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
307 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
308     normally uses.
309 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
310 root 1.117
311 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
312     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
313    
314 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
315 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
316 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
317     - strict'ify some modules.
318 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
319 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
320     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
321 root 1.112
322 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
323     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
324     when 'l'inux method was used.
325    
326 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
327     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
328    
329 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
330 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
331 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
332     Coro::State::flush method.
333 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
334 root 1.106
335 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
336 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
337 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
338 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
339 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
340 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
341 root 1.100
342 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
343     - change of contact address.
344    
345 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
346 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
347 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
348 root 1.97
349 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
350 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
351 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
352     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
353 root 1.95
354 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
355     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
356    
357 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
358 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
359 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
360     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
361     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
362     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
363     fixable).
364 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
365 pcg 1.91
366 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
367 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
368     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
369 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
370 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
371     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
372     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
373     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
374 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
375 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
376 pcg 1.86
377 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
378 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
379     memory leaks.
380     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
381 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
382     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
383 pcg 1.84
384 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
385     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
386 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
387    
388 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
389     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
390     of new features.
391 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
392     Highly correct stuff, that is...
393 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
394     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
395 root 1.80
396 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
397 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
398 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
399 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
400     so preselect it.
401 root 1.76
402 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
403     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
404     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
405 root 1.74
406 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
407 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
408     - new module Coro::Select.
409     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
410     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
411 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
412 root 1.72
413 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
414     - made lazy context switching the default.
415     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
416     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
417     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
418     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
419    
420 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
421 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
422 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
423     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
424     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
425     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
426     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
427 root 1.69
428 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
429     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
430     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
431     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
432    
433 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
434 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
435     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
436     without Event, which freezes).
437 root 1.65
438 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
439 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
440    
441 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
442 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
443 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
444     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
445     new ones.
446     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
447 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
448 root 1.60
449 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
450 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
451     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
452     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
453    
454 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
455 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
456     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
457     error.
458 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
459 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
460     - implemented terminate with args + join.
461 root 1.54
462 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
463 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
464 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
465     in various modules.
466     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
467 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
468 root 1.48
469 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
470 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
471     inside Coro::Handle.
472 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
473     speed reasons.
474     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
475     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
476     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
477 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
478 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
479     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
480     under some circumstances.
481     - other bugfixes.
482 root 1.43
483 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
484 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
485     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
486     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
487     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
488     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
489 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
490     syntax.
491 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
492 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
493 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
494 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
495 root 1.36
496 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
497 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
498 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
499     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
500 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
501 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
502 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
503     "Callback called exit" messages).
504 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
505     - much better Coro::Socket support.
506 root 1.31
507     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
508 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
509 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
510 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
511 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
512 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
513 root 1.28
514     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
515 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
516     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
517     - new module Coro::Socket.
518    
519 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
520 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
521 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
522     for yield.
523 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
524 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
525 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
526     perl-5.6.
527 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
528     - the idle process is now overriden
529     by default in Coro::Event.
530 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
531 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
532 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
533     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
534 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
535     non-blocking i/o.
536 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
537 root 1.16
538 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
539 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
540 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
541     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
542     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
543 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
544 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
545 root 1.13
546 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
547     - release candidate 1 ;)
548     - slightly nicer code.
549     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
550    
551 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
552     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
553 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
554     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
555     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
556 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
557     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
558 root 1.9
559 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
560     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
561     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
562    
563 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
564 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
565 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
566     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
567     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
568     coroutine-specific vars.
569 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
570 root 1.4
571 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
572 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
573     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
574     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
575 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
576 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
577     model. Still crude and subject to change.
578 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
579    
580 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
581     - implemented "async" attribute.
582     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
583     - added Coro::Channel.
584     - more testcases, still no docs.
585    
586 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
587     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
588