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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 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
10     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
11 root 1.316
12 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
13 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
14     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
15    
16 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
17 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
18 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
19     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
20 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
21 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
22 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
23 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
24 root 1.308
25 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
26 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
27    
28 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
29     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
30    
31 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
32 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
33 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
34 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
35 root 1.301
36 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
37     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
38    
39 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
40     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
41     when the stack changed.
42 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
43     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
44     if available.
45 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
46 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
47 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
48 root 1.295
49 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
50 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
51     and Coro::Handle.
52    
53 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
54 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
55 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
56 root 1.290
57 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
58 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
59 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
60 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
61     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
62     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
63 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
64 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
65     directly supported by Coro.
66     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
67     stuff in Coro::Util.
68 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
69 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
70 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
71 root 1.282
72 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
73 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
74 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
75     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
76 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
77     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
78     This also catches recursive invocations.
79 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
80 root 1.277
81 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
82     - port to threaded perls.
83    
84 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
85 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
86     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
87 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
88     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
89 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
90     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
91     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
92     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
93     speeds up context switching a bit.
94 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
95 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
96 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
97     resulting in races between coroutines.
98     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
99 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
100     an unrelated coroutine.
101 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
102     more detail in Coro::State.
103 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
104     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
105 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
106     invalidating pointers.
107 root 1.264
108 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
109 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
110     - minor code cleanups.
111    
112 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
113 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
114 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
115     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
116     or use tracing).
117     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
118 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
119     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
120 root 1.258
121 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
122 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
123     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
124 root 1.255
125 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
126 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
127 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
128     debugging, tracing and much more.
129 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
130     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
131     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
132     flags.
133 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
134 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
135 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
136     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
137 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
138 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
139 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
140 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
141 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
142     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
143     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
144 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
145 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
146 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
147 root 1.232
148 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
149 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
150    
151 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
152     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
153 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
154 root 1.227
155 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
156 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
157     pst's sometimes.
158 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
159 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
160     be threadsafe...).
161     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
162     but stateful semantics.
163 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
164     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
165 root 1.223
166     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
167 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
168 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
169 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
170     (EXPERIMENTAL).
171 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
172     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
173     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
174     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
175 root 1.217
176 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
177 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
178     it by default.
179     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
180     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
181     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
182 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
183 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
184 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
185     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
186     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
187     performance.
188 root 1.211
189 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
190 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
191     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
192    
193 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
194     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
195     them without asking.
196    
197 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
198 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
199     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
200 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
201     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
202 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
203     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
204 root 1.204
205 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
206 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
207     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
208 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
209     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
210     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
211     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
212     obsolete platforms.
213 root 1.202
214 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
215 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
216     but was rather flaky in practise.
217 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
218     it was reused.
219 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
220     in cede_notself.
221 root 1.197
222 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
223 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
224 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
225     documented and - hopefully - improved.
226 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
227 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
228 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
229     that could errronously trigger.
230 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
231 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
232     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
233 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
234 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
235 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
236     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
237     and 128k coros with async_pool).
238 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
239 root 1.184
240 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
241 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
242 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
243 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
244     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
245     their coro replacements.
246 root 1.179
247 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
248     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
249     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
250     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
251     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
252     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
253     - save/restore tainted status.
254     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
255    
256 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
257     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
258 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
259 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
260 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
261 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
262 root 1.169
263 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
264     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
265    
266 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
267 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
268     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
269 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
270     pool (size currently hardcoded).
271 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
272 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
273 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
274 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
275 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
276     check for changed watchers.
277 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
278     per event.
279 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
280 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
281 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
282 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
283     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
284 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
285     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
286 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
287 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
288 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
289 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
290     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
291 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
292 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
293 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
294 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
295     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
296     if somebody asks for it :)
297 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
298     spuriously without the event having happened.
299 root 1.146
300 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
301 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
302     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
303 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
304     make LWP non-blocking.
305     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
306 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
307 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
308     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
309 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
310     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
311 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
312     by LWP(!!).
313     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
314 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
315     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
316     did already.
317 root 1.135
318 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
319     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
320     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
321 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
322     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
323     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
324 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
325 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
326 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
327 root 1.130
328 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
329 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
330    
331 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
332    
333 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
334 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
335     mark & sweep gc run.
336 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
337 root 1.125
338 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
339 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
340 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
341    
342 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
343 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
344 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
345 root 1.117 wrong package.
346 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
347     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
348 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
349     normally uses.
350 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
351 root 1.117
352 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
353     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
354    
355 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
356 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
357 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
358     - strict'ify some modules.
359 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
360 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
361     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
362 root 1.112
363 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
364     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
365     when 'l'inux method was used.
366    
367 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
368     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
369    
370 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
371 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
372 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
373     Coro::State::flush method.
374 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
375 root 1.106
376 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
377 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
378 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
379 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
380 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
381 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
382 root 1.100
383 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
384     - change of contact address.
385    
386 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
387 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
388 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
389 root 1.97
390 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
391 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
392 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
393     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
394 root 1.95
395 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
396     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
397    
398 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
399 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
400 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
401     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
402     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
403     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
404     fixable).
405 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
406 pcg 1.91
407 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
408 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
409     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
410 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
411 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
412     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
413     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
414     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
415 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
416 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
417 pcg 1.86
418 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
419 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
420     memory leaks.
421     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
422 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
423     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
424 pcg 1.84
425 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
426     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
427 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
428    
429 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
430     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
431     of new features.
432 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
433     Highly correct stuff, that is...
434 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
435     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
436 root 1.80
437 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
438 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
439 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
440 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
441     so preselect it.
442 root 1.76
443 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
444     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
445     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
446 root 1.74
447 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
448 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
449     - new module Coro::Select.
450     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
451     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
452 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
453 root 1.72
454 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
455     - made lazy context switching the default.
456     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
457     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
458     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
459     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
460    
461 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
462 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
463 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
464     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
465     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
466     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
467     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
468 root 1.69
469 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
470     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
471     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
472     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
473    
474 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
475 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
476     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
477     without Event, which freezes).
478 root 1.65
479 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
480 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
481    
482 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
483 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
484 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
485     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
486     new ones.
487     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
488 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
489 root 1.60
490 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
491 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
492     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
493     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
494    
495 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
496 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
497     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
498     error.
499 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
500 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
501     - implemented terminate with args + join.
502 root 1.54
503 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
504 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
505 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
506     in various modules.
507     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
508 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
509 root 1.48
510 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
511 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
512     inside Coro::Handle.
513 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
514     speed reasons.
515     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
516     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
517     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
518 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
519 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
520     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
521     under some circumstances.
522     - other bugfixes.
523 root 1.43
524 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
525 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
526     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
527     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
528     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
529     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
530 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
531     syntax.
532 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
533 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
534 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
535 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
536 root 1.36
537 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
538 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
539 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
540     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
541 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
542 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
543 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
544     "Callback called exit" messages).
545 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
546     - much better Coro::Socket support.
547 root 1.31
548     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
549 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
550 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
551 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
552 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
553 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
554 root 1.28
555     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
556 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
557     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
558     - new module Coro::Socket.
559    
560 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
561 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
562 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
563     for yield.
564 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
565 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
566 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
567     perl-5.6.
568 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
569     - the idle process is now overriden
570     by default in Coro::Event.
571 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
572 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
573 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
574     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
575 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
576     non-blocking i/o.
577 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
578 root 1.16
579 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
580 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
581 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
582     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
583     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
584 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
585 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
586 root 1.13
587 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
588     - release candidate 1 ;)
589     - slightly nicer code.
590     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
591    
592 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
593     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
594 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
595     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
596     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
597 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
598     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
599 root 1.9
600 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
601     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
602     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
603    
604 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
605 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
606 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
607     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
608     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
609     coroutine-specific vars.
610 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
611 root 1.4
612 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
613 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
614     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
615     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
616 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
617 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
618     model. Still crude and subject to change.
619 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
620    
621 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
622     - implemented "async" attribute.
623     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
624     - added Coro::Channel.
625     - more testcases, still no docs.
626    
627 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
628     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
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