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Revision: 1.300
Committed: Wed Dec 5 11:32:58 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 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
9     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
10    
11 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
12     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
13     when the stack changed.
14 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
15     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
16     if available.
17 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
18 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
19 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
20 root 1.295
21 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
22 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
23     and Coro::Handle.
24    
25 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
26 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
27 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
28 root 1.290
29 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
30 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
31 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
32 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
33     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
34     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
35 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
36 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
37     directly supported by Coro.
38     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
39     stuff in Coro::Util.
40 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
41 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
42 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
43 root 1.282
44 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
45 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
46 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
47     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
48 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
49     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
50     This also catches recursive invocations.
51 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
52 root 1.277
53 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
54     - port to threaded perls.
55    
56 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
57 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
58     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
59 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
60     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
61 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
62     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
63     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
64     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
65     speeds up context switching a bit.
66 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
67 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
68 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
69     resulting in races between coroutines.
70     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
71 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
72     an unrelated coroutine.
73 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
74     more detail in Coro::State.
75 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
76     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
77 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
78     invalidating pointers.
79 root 1.264
80 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
81 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
82     - minor code cleanups.
83    
84 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
85 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
86 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
87     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
88     or use tracing).
89     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
90 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
91     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
92 root 1.258
93 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
94 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
95     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
96 root 1.255
97 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
98 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
99 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
100     debugging, tracing and much more.
101 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
102     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
103     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
104     flags.
105 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
106 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
107 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
108     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
109 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
110 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
111 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
112 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
113 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
114     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
115     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
116 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
117 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
118 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
119 root 1.232
120 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
121 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
122    
123 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
124     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
125 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
126 root 1.227
127 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
128 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
129     pst's sometimes.
130 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
131 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
132     be threadsafe...).
133     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
134     but stateful semantics.
135 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
136     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
137 root 1.223
138     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
139 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
140 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
141 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
142     (EXPERIMENTAL).
143 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
144     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
145     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
146     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
147 root 1.217
148 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
149 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
150     it by default.
151     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
152     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
153     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
154 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
155 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
156 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
157     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
158     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
159     performance.
160 root 1.211
161 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
162 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
163     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
164    
165 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
166     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
167     them without asking.
168    
169 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
170 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
171     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
172 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
173     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
174 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
175     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
176 root 1.204
177 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
178 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
179     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
180 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
181     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
182     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
183     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
184     obsolete platforms.
185 root 1.202
186 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
187 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
188     but was rather flaky in practise.
189 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
190     it was reused.
191 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
192     in cede_notself.
193 root 1.197
194 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
195 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
196 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
197     documented and - hopefully - improved.
198 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
199 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
200 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
201     that could errronously trigger.
202 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
203 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
204     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
205 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
206 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
207 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
208     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
209     and 128k coros with async_pool).
210 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
211 root 1.184
212 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
213 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
214 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
215 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
216     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
217     their coro replacements.
218 root 1.179
219 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
220     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
221     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
222     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
223     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
224     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
225     - save/restore tainted status.
226     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
227    
228 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
229     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
230 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
231 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
232 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
233 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
234 root 1.169
235 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
236     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
237    
238 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
239 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
240     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
241 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
242     pool (size currently hardcoded).
243 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
244 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
245 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
246 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
247 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
248     check for changed watchers.
249 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
250     per event.
251 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
252 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
253 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
254 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
255     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
256 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
257     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
258 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
259 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
260 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
261 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
262     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
263 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
264 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
265 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
266 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
267     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
268     if somebody asks for it :)
269 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
270     spuriously without the event having happened.
271 root 1.146
272 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
273 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
274     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
275 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
276     make LWP non-blocking.
277     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
278 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
279 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
280     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
281 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
282     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
283 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
284     by LWP(!!).
285     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
286 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
287     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
288     did already.
289 root 1.135
290 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
291     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
292     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
293 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
294     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
295     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
296 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
297 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
298 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
299 root 1.130
300 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
301 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
302    
303 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
304    
305 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
306 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
307     mark & sweep gc run.
308 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
309 root 1.125
310 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
311 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
312 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
313    
314 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
315 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
316 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
317 root 1.117 wrong package.
318 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
319     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
320 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
321     normally uses.
322 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
323 root 1.117
324 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
325     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
326    
327 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
328 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
329 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
330     - strict'ify some modules.
331 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
332 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
333     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
334 root 1.112
335 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
336     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
337     when 'l'inux method was used.
338    
339 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
340     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
341    
342 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
343 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
344 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
345     Coro::State::flush method.
346 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
347 root 1.106
348 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
349 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
350 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
351 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
352 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
353 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
354 root 1.100
355 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
356     - change of contact address.
357    
358 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
359 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
360 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
361 root 1.97
362 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
363 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
364 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
365     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
366 root 1.95
367 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
368     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
369    
370 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
371 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
372 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
373     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
374     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
375     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
376     fixable).
377 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
378 pcg 1.91
379 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
380 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
381     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
382 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
383 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
384     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
385     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
386     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
387 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
388 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
389 pcg 1.86
390 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
391 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
392     memory leaks.
393     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
394 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
395     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
396 pcg 1.84
397 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
398     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
399 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
400    
401 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
402     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
403     of new features.
404 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
405     Highly correct stuff, that is...
406 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
407     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
408 root 1.80
409 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
410 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
411 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
412 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
413     so preselect it.
414 root 1.76
415 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
416     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
417     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
418 root 1.74
419 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
420 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
421     - new module Coro::Select.
422     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
423     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
424 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
425 root 1.72
426 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
427     - made lazy context switching the default.
428     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
429     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
430     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
431     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
432    
433 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
434 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
435 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
436     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
437     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
438     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
439     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
440 root 1.69
441 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
442     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
443     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
444     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
445    
446 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
447 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
448     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
449     without Event, which freezes).
450 root 1.65
451 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
452 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
453    
454 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
455 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
456 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
457     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
458     new ones.
459     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
460 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
461 root 1.60
462 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
463 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
464     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
465     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
466    
467 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
468 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
469     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
470     error.
471 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
472 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
473     - implemented terminate with args + join.
474 root 1.54
475 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
476 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
477 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
478     in various modules.
479     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
480 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
481 root 1.48
482 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
483 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
484     inside Coro::Handle.
485 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
486     speed reasons.
487     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
488     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
489     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
490 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
491 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
492     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
493     under some circumstances.
494     - other bugfixes.
495 root 1.43
496 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
497 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
498     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
499     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
500     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
501     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
502 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
503     syntax.
504 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
505 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
506 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
507 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
508 root 1.36
509 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
510 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
511 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
512     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
513 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
514 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
515 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
516     "Callback called exit" messages).
517 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
518     - much better Coro::Socket support.
519 root 1.31
520     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
521 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
522 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
523 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
524 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
525 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
526 root 1.28
527     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
528 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
529     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
530     - new module Coro::Socket.
531    
532 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
533 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
534 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
535     for yield.
536 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
537 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
538 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
539     perl-5.6.
540 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
541     - the idle process is now overriden
542     by default in Coro::Event.
543 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
544 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
545 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
546     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
547 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
548     non-blocking i/o.
549 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
550 root 1.16
551 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
552 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
553 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
554     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
555     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
556 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
557 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
558 root 1.13
559 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
560     - release candidate 1 ;)
561     - slightly nicer code.
562     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
563    
564 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
565     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
566 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
567     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
568     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
569 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
570     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
571 root 1.9
572 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
573     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
574     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
575    
576 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
577 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
578 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
579     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
580     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
581     coroutine-specific vars.
582 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
583 root 1.4
584 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
585 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
586     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
587     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
588 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
589 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
590     model. Still crude and subject to change.
591 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
592    
593 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
594     - implemented "async" attribute.
595     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
596     - added Coro::Channel.
597     - more testcases, still no docs.
598    
599 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
600     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
601