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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 1.316 4.37
9     - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10.
10    
11 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
12 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
13     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
14    
15 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
16 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
17 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
18     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
19 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
20 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
21 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
22 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
23 root 1.308
24 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
25 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
26    
27 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
28     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
29    
30 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
31 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
32 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
33 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
34 root 1.301
35 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
36     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
37    
38 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
39     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
40     when the stack changed.
41 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
42     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
43     if available.
44 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
45 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
46 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
47 root 1.295
48 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
49 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
50     and Coro::Handle.
51    
52 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
53 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
54 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
55 root 1.290
56 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
57 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
58 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
59 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
60     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
61     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
62 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
63 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
64     directly supported by Coro.
65     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
66     stuff in Coro::Util.
67 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
68 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
69 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
70 root 1.282
71 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
72 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
73 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
74     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
75 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
76     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
77     This also catches recursive invocations.
78 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
79 root 1.277
80 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
81     - port to threaded perls.
82    
83 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
84 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
85     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
86 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
87     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
88 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
89     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
90     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
91     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
92     speeds up context switching a bit.
93 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
94 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
95 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
96     resulting in races between coroutines.
97     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
98 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
99     an unrelated coroutine.
100 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
101     more detail in Coro::State.
102 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
103     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
104 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
105     invalidating pointers.
106 root 1.264
107 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
108 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
109     - minor code cleanups.
110    
111 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
112 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
113 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
114     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
115     or use tracing).
116     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
117 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
118     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
119 root 1.258
120 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
121 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
122     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
123 root 1.255
124 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
125 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
126 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
127     debugging, tracing and much more.
128 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
129     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
130     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
131     flags.
132 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
133 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
134 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
135     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
136 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
137 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
138 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
139 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
140 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
141     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
142     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
143 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
144 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
145 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
146 root 1.232
147 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
148 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
149    
150 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
151     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
152 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
153 root 1.227
154 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
155 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
156     pst's sometimes.
157 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
158 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
159     be threadsafe...).
160     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
161     but stateful semantics.
162 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
163     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
164 root 1.223
165     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
166 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
167 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
168 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
169     (EXPERIMENTAL).
170 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
171     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
172     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
173     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
174 root 1.217
175 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
176 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
177     it by default.
178     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
179     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
180     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
181 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
182 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
183 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
184     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
185     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
186     performance.
187 root 1.211
188 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
189 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
190     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
191    
192 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
193     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
194     them without asking.
195    
196 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
197 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
198     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
199 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
200     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
201 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
202     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
203 root 1.204
204 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
205 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
206     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
207 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
208     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
209     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
210     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
211     obsolete platforms.
212 root 1.202
213 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
214 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
215     but was rather flaky in practise.
216 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
217     it was reused.
218 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
219     in cede_notself.
220 root 1.197
221 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
222 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
223 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
224     documented and - hopefully - improved.
225 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
226 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
227 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
228     that could errronously trigger.
229 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
230 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
231     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
232 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
233 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
234 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
235     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
236     and 128k coros with async_pool).
237 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
238 root 1.184
239 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
240 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
241 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
242 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
243     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
244     their coro replacements.
245 root 1.179
246 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
247     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
248     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
249     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
250     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
251     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
252     - save/restore tainted status.
253     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
254    
255 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
256     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
257 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
258 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
259 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
260 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
261 root 1.169
262 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
263     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
264    
265 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
266 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
267     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
268 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
269     pool (size currently hardcoded).
270 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
271 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
272 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
273 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
274 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
275     check for changed watchers.
276 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
277     per event.
278 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
279 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
280 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
281 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
282     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
283 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
284     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
285 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
286 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
287 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
288 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
289     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
290 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
291 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
292 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
293 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
294     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
295     if somebody asks for it :)
296 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
297     spuriously without the event having happened.
298 root 1.146
299 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
300 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
301     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
302 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
303     make LWP non-blocking.
304     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
305 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
306 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
307     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
308 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
309     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
310 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
311     by LWP(!!).
312     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
313 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
314     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
315     did already.
316 root 1.135
317 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
318     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
319     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
320 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
321     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
322     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
323 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
324 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
325 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
326 root 1.130
327 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
328 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
329    
330 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
331    
332 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
333 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
334     mark & sweep gc run.
335 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
336 root 1.125
337 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
338 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
339 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
340    
341 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
342 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
343 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
344 root 1.117 wrong package.
345 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
346     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
347 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
348     normally uses.
349 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
350 root 1.117
351 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
352     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
353    
354 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
355 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
356 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
357     - strict'ify some modules.
358 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
359 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
360     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
361 root 1.112
362 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
363     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
364     when 'l'inux method was used.
365    
366 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
367     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
368    
369 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
370 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
371 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
372     Coro::State::flush method.
373 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
374 root 1.106
375 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
376 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
377 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
378 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
379 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
380 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
381 root 1.100
382 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
383     - change of contact address.
384    
385 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
386 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
387 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
388 root 1.97
389 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
390 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
391 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
392     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
393 root 1.95
394 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
395     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
396    
397 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
398 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
399 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
400     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
401     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
402     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
403     fixable).
404 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
405 pcg 1.91
406 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
407 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
408     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
409 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
410 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
411     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
412     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
413     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
414 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
415 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
416 pcg 1.86
417 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
418 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
419     memory leaks.
420     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
421 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
422     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
423 pcg 1.84
424 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
425     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
426 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
427    
428 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
429     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
430     of new features.
431 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
432     Highly correct stuff, that is...
433 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
434     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
435 root 1.80
436 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
437 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
438 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
439 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
440     so preselect it.
441 root 1.76
442 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
443     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
444     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
445 root 1.74
446 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
447 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
448     - new module Coro::Select.
449     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
450     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
451 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
452 root 1.72
453 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
454     - made lazy context switching the default.
455     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
456     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
457     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
458     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
459    
460 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
461 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
462 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
463     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
464     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
465     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
466     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
467 root 1.69
468 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
469     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
470     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
471     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
472    
473 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
474 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
475     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
476     without Event, which freezes).
477 root 1.65
478 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
479 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
480    
481 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
482 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
483 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
484     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
485     new ones.
486     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
487 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
488 root 1.60
489 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
490 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
491     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
492     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
493    
494 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
495 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
496     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
497     error.
498 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
499 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
500     - implemented terminate with args + join.
501 root 1.54
502 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
503 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
504 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
505     in various modules.
506     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
507 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
508 root 1.48
509 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
510 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
511     inside Coro::Handle.
512 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
513     speed reasons.
514     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
515     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
516     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
517 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
518 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
519     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
520     under some circumstances.
521     - other bugfixes.
522 root 1.43
523 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
524 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
525     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
526     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
527     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
528     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
529 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
530     syntax.
531 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
532 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
533 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
534 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
535 root 1.36
536 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
537 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
538 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
539     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
540 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
541 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
542 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
543     "Callback called exit" messages).
544 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
545     - much better Coro::Socket support.
546 root 1.31
547     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
548 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
549 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
550 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
551 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
552 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
553 root 1.28
554     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
555 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
556     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
557     - new module Coro::Socket.
558    
559 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
560 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
561 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
562     for yield.
563 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
564 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
565 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
566     perl-5.6.
567 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
568     - the idle process is now overriden
569     by default in Coro::Event.
570 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
571 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
572 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
573     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
574 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
575     non-blocking i/o.
576 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
577 root 1.16
578 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
579 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
580 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
581     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
582     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
583 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
584 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
585 root 1.13
586 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
587     - release candidate 1 ;)
588     - slightly nicer code.
589     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
590    
591 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
592     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
593 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
594     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
595     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
596 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
597     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
598 root 1.9
599 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
600     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
601     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
602    
603 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
604 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
605 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
606     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
607     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
608     coroutine-specific vars.
609 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
610 root 1.4
611 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
612 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
613     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
614     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
615 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
616 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
617     model. Still crude and subject to change.
618 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
619    
620 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
621     - implemented "async" attribute.
622     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
623     - added Coro::Channel.
624     - more testcases, still no docs.
625    
626 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
627     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
628