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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 1.328 TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's
5     actor model (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 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
9     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
10    
11 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
12 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
13     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
14 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
15     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
16 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
17 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
18     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
19 root 1.341
20 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
21 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
22 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
23     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
24     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
25 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
26     actual impact unknown.
27 root 1.336
28 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
29     - make it compile again on 5.8.
30    
31 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
32     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
33    
34 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
35     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
36     were compiled on 5.8 only.
37    
38 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
39 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
40     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
41     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
42 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
43 root 1.331
44 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
45 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
46     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
47     leading to crashes and worse.
48 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
49 root 1.329
50 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
51     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
52     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
53    
54 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
55 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
56     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
57 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
58     (also add testcase).
59 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
60     apparently having loads of fun with that).
61 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
62 root 1.322
63 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
64 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
65 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
66 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
67     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
68     Andreas König.
69 root 1.319
70 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
71 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
72     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
73 root 1.316
74 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
75 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
76     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
77    
78 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
79 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
80 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
81     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
82 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
83 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
84 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
85 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
86 root 1.308
87 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
88 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
89    
90 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
91     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
92    
93 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
94 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
95 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
96 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
97 root 1.301
98 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
99     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
100    
101 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
102     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
103     when the stack changed.
104 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
105     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
106     if available.
107 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
108 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
109 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
110 root 1.295
111 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
112 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
113     and Coro::Handle.
114    
115 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
116 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
117 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
118 root 1.290
119 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
120 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
121 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
122 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
123     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
124     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
125 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
126 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
127     directly supported by Coro.
128     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
129     stuff in Coro::Util.
130 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
131 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
132 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
133 root 1.282
134 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
135 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
136 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
137     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
138 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
139     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
140     This also catches recursive invocations.
141 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
142 root 1.277
143 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
144     - port to threaded perls.
145    
146 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
147 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
148     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
149 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
150     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
151 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
152     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
153     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
154     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
155     speeds up context switching a bit.
156 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
157 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
158 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
159     resulting in races between coroutines.
160     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
161 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
162     an unrelated coroutine.
163 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
164     more detail in Coro::State.
165 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
166     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
167 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
168     invalidating pointers.
169 root 1.264
170 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
171 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
172     - minor code cleanups.
173    
174 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
175 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
176 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
177     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
178     or use tracing).
179     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
180 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
181     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
182 root 1.258
183 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
184 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
185     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
186 root 1.255
187 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
188 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
189 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
190     debugging, tracing and much more.
191 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
192     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
193     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
194     flags.
195 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
196 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
197 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
198     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
199 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
200 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
201 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
202 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
203 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
204     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
205     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
206 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
207 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
208 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
209 root 1.232
210 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
211 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
212    
213 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
214     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
215 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
216 root 1.227
217 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
218 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
219     pst's sometimes.
220 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
221 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
222     be threadsafe...).
223     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
224     but stateful semantics.
225 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
226     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
227 root 1.223
228     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
229 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
230 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
231 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
232     (EXPERIMENTAL).
233 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
234     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
235     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
236     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
237 root 1.217
238 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
239 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
240     it by default.
241     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
242     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
243     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
244 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
245 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
246 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
247     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
248     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
249     performance.
250 root 1.211
251 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
252 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
253     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
254    
255 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
256     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
257     them without asking.
258    
259 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
260 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
261     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
262 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
263     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
264 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
265     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
266 root 1.204
267 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
268 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
269     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
270 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
271     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
272     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
273     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
274     obsolete platforms.
275 root 1.202
276 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
277 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
278     but was rather flaky in practise.
279 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
280     it was reused.
281 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
282     in cede_notself.
283 root 1.197
284 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
285 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
286 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
287     documented and - hopefully - improved.
288 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
289 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
290 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
291     that could errronously trigger.
292 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
293 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
294     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
295 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
296 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
297 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
298     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
299     and 128k coros with async_pool).
300 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
301 root 1.184
302 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
303 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
304 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
305 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
306     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
307     their coro replacements.
308 root 1.179
309 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
310     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
311     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
312     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
313     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
314     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
315     - save/restore tainted status.
316     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
317    
318 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
319     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
320 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
321 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
322 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
323 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
324 root 1.169
325 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
326     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
327    
328 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
329 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
330     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
331 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
332     pool (size currently hardcoded).
333 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
334 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
335 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
336 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
337 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
338     check for changed watchers.
339 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
340     per event.
341 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
342 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
343 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
344 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
345     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
346 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
347     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
348 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
349 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
350 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
351 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
352     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
353 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
354 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
355 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
356 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
357     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
358     if somebody asks for it :)
359 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
360     spuriously without the event having happened.
361 root 1.146
362 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
363 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
364     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
365 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
366     make LWP non-blocking.
367     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
368 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
369 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
370     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
371 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
372     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
373 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
374     by LWP(!!).
375     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
376 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
377     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
378     did already.
379 root 1.135
380 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
381     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
382     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
383 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
384     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
385     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
386 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
387 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
388 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
389 root 1.130
390 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
391 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
392    
393 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
394    
395 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
396 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
397     mark & sweep gc run.
398 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
399 root 1.125
400 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
401 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
402 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
403    
404 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
405 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
406 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
407 root 1.117 wrong package.
408 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
409     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
410 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
411     normally uses.
412 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
413 root 1.117
414 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
415     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
416    
417 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
418 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
419 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
420     - strict'ify some modules.
421 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
422 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
423     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
424 root 1.112
425 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
426     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
427     when 'l'inux method was used.
428    
429 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
430     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
431    
432 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
433 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
434 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
435     Coro::State::flush method.
436 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
437 root 1.106
438 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
439 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
440 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
441 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
442 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
443 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
444 root 1.100
445 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
446     - change of contact address.
447    
448 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
449 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
450 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
451 root 1.97
452 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
453 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
454 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
455     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
456 root 1.95
457 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
458     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
459    
460 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
461 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
462 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
463     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
464     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
465     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
466     fixable).
467 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
468 pcg 1.91
469 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
470 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
471     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
472 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
473 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
474     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
475     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
476     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
477 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
478 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
479 pcg 1.86
480 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
481 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
482     memory leaks.
483     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
484 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
485     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
486 pcg 1.84
487 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
488     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
489 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
490    
491 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
492     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
493     of new features.
494 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
495     Highly correct stuff, that is...
496 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
497     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
498 root 1.80
499 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
500 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
501 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
502 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
503     so preselect it.
504 root 1.76
505 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
506     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
507     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
508 root 1.74
509 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
510 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
511     - new module Coro::Select.
512     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
513     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
514 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
515 root 1.72
516 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
517     - made lazy context switching the default.
518     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
519     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
520     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
521     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
522    
523 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
524 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
525 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
526     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
527     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
528     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
529     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
530 root 1.69
531 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
532     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
533     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
534     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
535    
536 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
537 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
538     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
539     without Event, which freezes).
540 root 1.65
541 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
542 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
543    
544 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
545 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
546 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
547     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
548     new ones.
549     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
550 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
551 root 1.60
552 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
553 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
554     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
555     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
556    
557 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
558 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
559     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
560     error.
561 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
562 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
563     - implemented terminate with args + join.
564 root 1.54
565 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
566 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
567 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
568     in various modules.
569     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
570 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
571 root 1.48
572 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
573 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
574     inside Coro::Handle.
575 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
576     speed reasons.
577     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
578     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
579     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
580 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
581 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
582     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
583     under some circumstances.
584     - other bugfixes.
585 root 1.43
586 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
587 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
588     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
589     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
590     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
591     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
592 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
593     syntax.
594 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
595 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
596 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
597 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
598 root 1.36
599 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
600 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
601 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
602     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
603 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
604 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
605 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
606     "Callback called exit" messages).
607 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
608     - much better Coro::Socket support.
609 root 1.31
610     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
611 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
612 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
613 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
614 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
615 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
616 root 1.28
617     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
618 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
619     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
620     - new module Coro::Socket.
621    
622 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
623 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
624 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
625     for yield.
626 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
627 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
628 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
629     perl-5.6.
630 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
631     - the idle process is now overriden
632     by default in Coro::Event.
633 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
634 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
635 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
636     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
637 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
638     non-blocking i/o.
639 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
640 root 1.16
641 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
642 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
643 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
644     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
645     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
646 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
647 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
648 root 1.13
649 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
650     - release candidate 1 ;)
651     - slightly nicer code.
652     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
653    
654 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
655     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
656 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
657     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
658     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
659 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
660     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
661 root 1.9
662 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
663     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
664     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
665    
666 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
667 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
668 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
669     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
670     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
671     coroutine-specific vars.
672 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
673 root 1.4
674 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
675 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
676     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
677     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
678 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
679 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
680     model. Still crude and subject to change.
681 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
682    
683 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
684     - implemented "async" attribute.
685     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
686     - added Coro::Channel.
687     - more testcases, still no docs.
688    
689 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
690     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
691