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Revision: 1.299
Committed: Tue Dec 4 19:33:43 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 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
9     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
10     when the stack changed.
11 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
12     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
13     if available.
14 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
15 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
16 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
17 root 1.295
18 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
19 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
20     and Coro::Handle.
21    
22 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
23 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
24 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
25 root 1.290
26 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
27 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
28 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
29 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
30     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
31     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
32 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
33 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
34     directly supported by Coro.
35     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
36     stuff in Coro::Util.
37 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
38 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
39 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
40 root 1.282
41 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
42 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
43 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
44     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
45 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
46     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
47     This also catches recursive invocations.
48 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
49 root 1.277
50 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
51     - port to threaded perls.
52    
53 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
54 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
55     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
56 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
57     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
58 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
59     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
60     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
61     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
62     speeds up context switching a bit.
63 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
64 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
65 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
66     resulting in races between coroutines.
67     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
68 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
69     an unrelated coroutine.
70 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
71     more detail in Coro::State.
72 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
73     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
74 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
75     invalidating pointers.
76 root 1.264
77 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
78 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
79     - minor code cleanups.
80    
81 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
82 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
83 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
84     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
85     or use tracing).
86     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
87 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
88     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
89 root 1.258
90 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
91 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
92     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
93 root 1.255
94 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
95 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
96 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
97     debugging, tracing and much more.
98 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
99     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
100     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
101     flags.
102 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
103 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
104 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
105     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
106 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
107 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
108 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
109 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
110 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
111     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
112     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
113 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
114 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
115 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
116 root 1.232
117 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
118 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
119    
120 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
121     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
122 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
123 root 1.227
124 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
125 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
126     pst's sometimes.
127 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
128 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
129     be threadsafe...).
130     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
131     but stateful semantics.
132 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
133     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
134 root 1.223
135     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
136 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
137 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
138 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
139     (EXPERIMENTAL).
140 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
141     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
142     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
143     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
144 root 1.217
145 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
146 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
147     it by default.
148     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
149     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
150     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
151 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
152 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
153 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
154     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
155     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
156     performance.
157 root 1.211
158 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
159 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
160     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
161    
162 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
163     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
164     them without asking.
165    
166 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
167 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
168     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
169 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
170     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
171 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
172     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
173 root 1.204
174 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
175 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
176     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
177 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
178     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
179     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
180     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
181     obsolete platforms.
182 root 1.202
183 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
184 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
185     but was rather flaky in practise.
186 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
187     it was reused.
188 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
189     in cede_notself.
190 root 1.197
191 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
192 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
193 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
194     documented and - hopefully - improved.
195 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
196 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
197 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
198     that could errronously trigger.
199 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
200 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
201     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
202 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
203 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
204 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
205     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
206     and 128k coros with async_pool).
207 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
208 root 1.184
209 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
210 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
211 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
212 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
213     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
214     their coro replacements.
215 root 1.179
216 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
217     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
218     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
219     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
220     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
221     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
222     - save/restore tainted status.
223     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
224    
225 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
226     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
227 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
228 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
229 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
230 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
231 root 1.169
232 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
233     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
234    
235 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
236 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
237     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
238 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
239     pool (size currently hardcoded).
240 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
241 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
242 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
243 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
244 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
245     check for changed watchers.
246 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
247     per event.
248 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
249 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
250 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
251 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
252     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
253 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
254     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
255 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
256 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
257 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
258 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
259     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
260 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
261 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
262 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
263 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
264     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
265     if somebody asks for it :)
266 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
267     spuriously without the event having happened.
268 root 1.146
269 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
270 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
271     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
272 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
273     make LWP non-blocking.
274     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
275 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
276 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
277     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
278 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
279     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
280 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
281     by LWP(!!).
282     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
283 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
284     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
285     did already.
286 root 1.135
287 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
288     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
289     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
290 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
291     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
292     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
293 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
294 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
295 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
296 root 1.130
297 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
298 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
299    
300 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
301    
302 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
303 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
304     mark & sweep gc run.
305 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
306 root 1.125
307 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
308 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
309 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
310    
311 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
312 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
313 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
314 root 1.117 wrong package.
315 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
316     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
317 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
318     normally uses.
319 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
320 root 1.117
321 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
322     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
323    
324 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
325 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
326 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
327     - strict'ify some modules.
328 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
329 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
330     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
331 root 1.112
332 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
333     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
334     when 'l'inux method was used.
335    
336 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
337     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
338    
339 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
340 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
341 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
342     Coro::State::flush method.
343 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
344 root 1.106
345 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
346 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
347 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
348 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
349 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
350 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
351 root 1.100
352 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
353     - change of contact address.
354    
355 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
356 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
357 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
358 root 1.97
359 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
360 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
361 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
362     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
363 root 1.95
364 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
365     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
366    
367 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
368 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
369 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
370     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
371     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
372     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
373     fixable).
374 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
375 pcg 1.91
376 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
377 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
378     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
379 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
380 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
381     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
382     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
383     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
384 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
385 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
386 pcg 1.86
387 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
388 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
389     memory leaks.
390     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
391 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
392     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
393 pcg 1.84
394 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
395     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
396 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
397    
398 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
399     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
400     of new features.
401 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
402     Highly correct stuff, that is...
403 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
404     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
405 root 1.80
406 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
407 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
408 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
409 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
410     so preselect it.
411 root 1.76
412 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
413     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
414     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
415 root 1.74
416 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
417 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
418     - new module Coro::Select.
419     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
420     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
421 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
422 root 1.72
423 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
424     - made lazy context switching the default.
425     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
426     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
427     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
428     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
429    
430 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
431 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
432 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
433     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
434     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
435     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
436     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
437 root 1.69
438 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
439     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
440     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
441     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
442    
443 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
444 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
445     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
446     without Event, which freezes).
447 root 1.65
448 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
449 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
450    
451 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
452 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
453 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
454     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
455     new ones.
456     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
457 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
458 root 1.60
459 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
460 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
461     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
462     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
463    
464 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
465 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
466     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
467     error.
468 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
469 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
470     - implemented terminate with args + join.
471 root 1.54
472 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
473 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
474 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
475     in various modules.
476     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
477 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
478 root 1.48
479 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
480 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
481     inside Coro::Handle.
482 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
483     speed reasons.
484     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
485     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
486     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
487 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
488 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
489     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
490     under some circumstances.
491     - other bugfixes.
492 root 1.43
493 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
494 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
495     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
496     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
497     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
498     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
499 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
500     syntax.
501 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
502 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
503 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
504 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
505 root 1.36
506 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
507 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
508 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
509     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
510 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
511 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
512 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
513     "Callback called exit" messages).
514 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
515     - much better Coro::Socket support.
516 root 1.31
517     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
518 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
519 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
520 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
521 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
522 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
523 root 1.28
524     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
525 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
526     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
527     - new module Coro::Socket.
528    
529 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
530 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
531 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
532     for yield.
533 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
534 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
535 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
536     perl-5.6.
537 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
538     - the idle process is now overriden
539     by default in Coro::Event.
540 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
541 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
542 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
543     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
544 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
545     non-blocking i/o.
546 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
547 root 1.16
548 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
549 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
550 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
551     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
552     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
553 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
554 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
555 root 1.13
556 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
557     - release candidate 1 ;)
558     - slightly nicer code.
559     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
560    
561 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
562     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
563 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
564     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
565     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
566 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
567     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
568 root 1.9
569 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
570     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
571     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
572    
573 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
574 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
575 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
576     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
577     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
578     coroutine-specific vars.
579 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
580 root 1.4
581 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
582 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
583     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
584     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
585 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
586 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
587     model. Still crude and subject to change.
588 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
589    
590 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
591     - implemented "async" attribute.
592     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
593     - added Coro::Channel.
594     - more testcases, still no docs.
595    
596 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
597     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
598