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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 1.302 4.32
9 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
10 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
11 root 1.301
12 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
13     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
14    
15 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
16     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
17     when the stack changed.
18 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
19     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
20     if available.
21 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
22 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
23 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
24 root 1.295
25 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
26 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
27     and Coro::Handle.
28    
29 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
30 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
31 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
32 root 1.290
33 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
34 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
35 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
36 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
37     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
38     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
39 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
40 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
41     directly supported by Coro.
42     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
43     stuff in Coro::Util.
44 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
45 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
46 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
47 root 1.282
48 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
49 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
50 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
51     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
52 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
53     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
54     This also catches recursive invocations.
55 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
56 root 1.277
57 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
58     - port to threaded perls.
59    
60 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
61 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
62     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
63 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
64     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
65 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
66     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
67     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
68     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
69     speeds up context switching a bit.
70 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
71 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
72 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
73     resulting in races between coroutines.
74     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
75 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
76     an unrelated coroutine.
77 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
78     more detail in Coro::State.
79 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
80     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
81 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
82     invalidating pointers.
83 root 1.264
84 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
85 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
86     - minor code cleanups.
87    
88 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
89 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
90 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
91     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
92     or use tracing).
93     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
94 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
95     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
96 root 1.258
97 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
98 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
99     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
100 root 1.255
101 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
102 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
103 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
104     debugging, tracing and much more.
105 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
106     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
107     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
108     flags.
109 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
110 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
111 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
112     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
113 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
114 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
115 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
116 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
117 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
118     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
119     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
120 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
121 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
122 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
123 root 1.232
124 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
125 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
126    
127 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
128     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
129 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
130 root 1.227
131 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
132 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
133     pst's sometimes.
134 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
135 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
136     be threadsafe...).
137     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
138     but stateful semantics.
139 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
140     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
141 root 1.223
142     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
143 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
144 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
145 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
146     (EXPERIMENTAL).
147 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
148     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
149     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
150     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
151 root 1.217
152 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
153 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
154     it by default.
155     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
156     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
157     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
158 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
159 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
160 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
161     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
162     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
163     performance.
164 root 1.211
165 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
166 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
167     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
168    
169 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
170     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
171     them without asking.
172    
173 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
174 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
175     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
176 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
177     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
178 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
179     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
180 root 1.204
181 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
182 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
183     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
184 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
185     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
186     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
187     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
188     obsolete platforms.
189 root 1.202
190 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
191 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
192     but was rather flaky in practise.
193 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
194     it was reused.
195 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
196     in cede_notself.
197 root 1.197
198 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
199 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
200 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
201     documented and - hopefully - improved.
202 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
203 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
204 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
205     that could errronously trigger.
206 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
207 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
208     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
209 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
210 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
211 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
212     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
213     and 128k coros with async_pool).
214 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
215 root 1.184
216 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
217 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
218 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
219 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
220     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
221     their coro replacements.
222 root 1.179
223 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
224     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
225     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
226     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
227     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
228     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
229     - save/restore tainted status.
230     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
231    
232 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
233     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
234 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
235 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
236 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
237 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
238 root 1.169
239 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
240     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
241    
242 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
243 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
244     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
245 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
246     pool (size currently hardcoded).
247 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
248 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
249 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
250 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
251 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
252     check for changed watchers.
253 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
254     per event.
255 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
256 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
257 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
258 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
259     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
260 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
261     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
262 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
263 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
264 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
265 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
266     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
267 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
268 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
269 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
270 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
271     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
272     if somebody asks for it :)
273 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
274     spuriously without the event having happened.
275 root 1.146
276 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
277 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
278     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
279 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
280     make LWP non-blocking.
281     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
282 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
283 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
284     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
285 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
286     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
287 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
288     by LWP(!!).
289     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
290 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
291     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
292     did already.
293 root 1.135
294 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
295     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
296     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
297 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
298     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
299     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
300 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
301 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
302 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
303 root 1.130
304 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
305 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
306    
307 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
308    
309 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
310 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
311     mark & sweep gc run.
312 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
313 root 1.125
314 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
315 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
316 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
317    
318 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
319 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
320 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
321 root 1.117 wrong package.
322 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
323     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
324 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
325     normally uses.
326 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
327 root 1.117
328 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
329     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
330    
331 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
332 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
333 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
334     - strict'ify some modules.
335 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
336 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
337     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
338 root 1.112
339 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
340     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
341     when 'l'inux method was used.
342    
343 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
344     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
345    
346 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
347 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
348 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
349     Coro::State::flush method.
350 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
351 root 1.106
352 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
353 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
354 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
355 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
356 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
357 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
358 root 1.100
359 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
360     - change of contact address.
361    
362 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
363 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
364 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
365 root 1.97
366 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
367 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
368 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
369     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
370 root 1.95
371 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
372     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
373    
374 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
375 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
376 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
377     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
378     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
379     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
380     fixable).
381 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
382 pcg 1.91
383 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
384 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
385     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
386 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
387 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
388     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
389     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
390     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
391 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
392 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
393 pcg 1.86
394 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
395 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
396     memory leaks.
397     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
398 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
399     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
400 pcg 1.84
401 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
402     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
403 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
404    
405 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
406     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
407     of new features.
408 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
409     Highly correct stuff, that is...
410 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
411     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
412 root 1.80
413 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
414 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
415 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
416 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
417     so preselect it.
418 root 1.76
419 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
420     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
421     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
422 root 1.74
423 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
424 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
425     - new module Coro::Select.
426     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
427     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
428 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
429 root 1.72
430 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
431     - made lazy context switching the default.
432     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
433     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
434     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
435     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
436    
437 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
438 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
439 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
440     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
441     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
442     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
443     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
444 root 1.69
445 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
446     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
447     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
448     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
449    
450 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
451 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
452     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
453     without Event, which freezes).
454 root 1.65
455 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
456 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
457    
458 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
459 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
460 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
461     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
462     new ones.
463     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
464 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
465 root 1.60
466 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
467 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
468     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
469     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
470    
471 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
472 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
473     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
474     error.
475 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
476 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
477     - implemented terminate with args + join.
478 root 1.54
479 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
480 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
481 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
482     in various modules.
483     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
484 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
485 root 1.48
486 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
487 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
488     inside Coro::Handle.
489 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
490     speed reasons.
491     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
492     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
493     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
494 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
495 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
496     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
497     under some circumstances.
498     - other bugfixes.
499 root 1.43
500 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
501 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
502     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
503     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
504     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
505     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
506 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
507     syntax.
508 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
509 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
510 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
511 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
512 root 1.36
513 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
514 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
515 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
516     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
517 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
518 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
519 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
520     "Callback called exit" messages).
521 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
522     - much better Coro::Socket support.
523 root 1.31
524     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
525 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
526 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
527 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
528 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
529 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
530 root 1.28
531     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
532 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
533     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
534     - new module Coro::Socket.
535    
536 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
537 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
538 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
539     for yield.
540 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
541 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
542 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
543     perl-5.6.
544 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
545     - the idle process is now overriden
546     by default in Coro::Event.
547 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
548 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
549 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
550     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
551 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
552     non-blocking i/o.
553 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
554 root 1.16
555 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
556 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
557 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
558     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
559     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
560 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
561 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
562 root 1.13
563 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
564     - release candidate 1 ;)
565     - slightly nicer code.
566     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
567    
568 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
569     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
570 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
571     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
572     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
573 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
574     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
575 root 1.9
576 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
577     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
578     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
579    
580 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
581 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
582 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
583     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
584     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
585     coroutine-specific vars.
586 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
587 root 1.4
588 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
589 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
590     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
591     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
592 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
593 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
594     model. Still crude and subject to change.
595 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
596    
597 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
598     - implemented "async" attribute.
599     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
600     - added Coro::Channel.
601     - more testcases, still no docs.
602    
603 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
604     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
605