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Revision: 1.360
Committed: Sun Jun 15 22:31:33 2008 UTC (15 years, 11 months ago) by root
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: rel-4_743
Changes since 1.359: +5 -0 lines
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# User Rev Content
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 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
9     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
10     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
11     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
12    
13 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
14     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
15     - require EV 3.3+.
16    
17 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
18     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
19     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
20     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
21     stuff seems just too broken.
22     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
23    
24 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
25     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
26     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
27    
28     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
29 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
30     there being runnable coroutines.
31 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
32     warnings for some other modules.
33 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
34 root 1.354
35 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
36 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
37     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
38 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
39 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
40     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
41     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
42     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
43 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
44     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
45     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
46 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
47     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
48 root 1.350
49 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
50 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
51 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
52     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
53 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
54     scheduling.
55 root 1.347
56 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
57 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
58     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
59 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
60     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
61 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
62 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
63     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
64 root 1.341
65 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
66 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
67 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
68     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
69     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
70 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
71     actual impact unknown.
72 root 1.336
73 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
74     - make it compile again on 5.8.
75    
76 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
77     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
78    
79 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
80     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
81     were compiled on 5.8 only.
82    
83 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
84 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
85     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
86     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
87 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
88 root 1.331
89 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
90 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
91     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
92     leading to crashes and worse.
93 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
94 root 1.329
95 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
96     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
97     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
98    
99 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
100 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
101     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
102 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
103     (also add testcase).
104 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
105     apparently having loads of fun with that).
106 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
107 root 1.322
108 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
109 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
110 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
111 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
112     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
113     Andreas König.
114 root 1.319
115 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
116 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
117     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
118 root 1.316
119 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
120 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
121     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
122    
123 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
124 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
125 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
126     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
127 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
128 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
129 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
130 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
131 root 1.308
132 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
133 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
134    
135 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
136     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
137    
138 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
139 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
140 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
141 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
142 root 1.301
143 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
144     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
145    
146 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
147     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
148     when the stack changed.
149 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
150     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
151     if available.
152 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
153 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
154 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
155 root 1.295
156 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
157 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
158     and Coro::Handle.
159    
160 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
161 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
162 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
163 root 1.290
164 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
165 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
166 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
167 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
168     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
169     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
170 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
171 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
172     directly supported by Coro.
173     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
174     stuff in Coro::Util.
175 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
176 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
177 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
178 root 1.282
179 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
180 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
181 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
182     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
183 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
184     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
185     This also catches recursive invocations.
186 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
187 root 1.277
188 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
189     - port to threaded perls.
190    
191 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
192 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
193     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
194 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
195     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
196 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
197     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
198     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
199     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
200     speeds up context switching a bit.
201 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
202 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
203 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
204     resulting in races between coroutines.
205     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
206 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
207     an unrelated coroutine.
208 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
209     more detail in Coro::State.
210 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
211     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
212 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
213     invalidating pointers.
214 root 1.264
215 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
216 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
217     - minor code cleanups.
218    
219 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
220 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
221 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
222     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
223     or use tracing).
224     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
225 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
226     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
227 root 1.258
228 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
229 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
230     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
231 root 1.255
232 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
233 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
234 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
235     debugging, tracing and much more.
236 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
237     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
238     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
239     flags.
240 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
241 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
242 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
243     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
244 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
245 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
246 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
247 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
248 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
249     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
250     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
251 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
252 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
253 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
254 root 1.232
255 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
256 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
257    
258 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
259     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
260 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
261 root 1.227
262 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
263 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
264     pst's sometimes.
265 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
266 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
267     be threadsafe...).
268     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
269     but stateful semantics.
270 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
271     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
272 root 1.223
273     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
274 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
275 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
276 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
277     (EXPERIMENTAL).
278 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
279     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
280     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
281     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
282 root 1.217
283 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
284 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
285     it by default.
286     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
287     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
288     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
289 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
290 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
291 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
292     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
293     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
294     performance.
295 root 1.211
296 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
297 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
298     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
299    
300 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
301     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
302     them without asking.
303    
304 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
305 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
306     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
307 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
308     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
309 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
310     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
311 root 1.204
312 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
313 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
314     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
315 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
316     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
317     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
318     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
319     obsolete platforms.
320 root 1.202
321 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
322 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
323     but was rather flaky in practise.
324 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
325     it was reused.
326 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
327     in cede_notself.
328 root 1.197
329 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
330 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
331 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
332     documented and - hopefully - improved.
333 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
334 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
335 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
336     that could errronously trigger.
337 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
338 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
339     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
340 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
341 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
342 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
343     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
344     and 128k coros with async_pool).
345 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
346 root 1.184
347 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
348 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
349 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
350 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
351     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
352     their coro replacements.
353 root 1.179
354 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
355     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
356     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
357     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
358     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
359     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
360     - save/restore tainted status.
361     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
362    
363 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
364     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
365 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
366 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
367 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
368 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
369 root 1.169
370 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
371     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
372    
373 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
374 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
375     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
376 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
377     pool (size currently hardcoded).
378 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
379 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
380 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
381 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
382 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
383     check for changed watchers.
384 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
385     per event.
386 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
387 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
388 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
389 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
390     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
391 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
392     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
393 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
394 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
395 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
396 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
397     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
398 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
399 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
400 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
401 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
402     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
403     if somebody asks for it :)
404 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
405     spuriously without the event having happened.
406 root 1.146
407 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
408 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
409     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
410 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
411     make LWP non-blocking.
412     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
413 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
414 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
415     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
416 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
417     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
418 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
419     by LWP(!!).
420     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
421 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
422     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
423     did already.
424 root 1.135
425 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
426     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
427     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
428 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
429     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
430     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
431 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
432 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
433 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
434 root 1.130
435 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
436 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
437    
438 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
439    
440 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
441 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
442     mark & sweep gc run.
443 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
444 root 1.125
445 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
446 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
447 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
448    
449 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
450 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
451 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
452 root 1.117 wrong package.
453 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
454     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
455 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
456     normally uses.
457 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
458 root 1.117
459 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
460     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
461    
462 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
463 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
464 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
465     - strict'ify some modules.
466 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
467 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
468     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
469 root 1.112
470 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
471     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
472     when 'l'inux method was used.
473    
474 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
475     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
476    
477 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
478 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
479 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
480     Coro::State::flush method.
481 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
482 root 1.106
483 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
484 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
485 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
486 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
487 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
488 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
489 root 1.100
490 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
491     - change of contact address.
492    
493 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
494 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
495 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
496 root 1.97
497 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
498 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
499 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
500     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
501 root 1.95
502 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
503     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
504    
505 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
506 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
507 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
508     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
509     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
510     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
511     fixable).
512 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
513 pcg 1.91
514 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
515 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
516     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
517 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
518 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
519     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
520     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
521     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
522 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
523 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
524 pcg 1.86
525 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
526 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
527     memory leaks.
528     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
529 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
530     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
531 pcg 1.84
532 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
533     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
534 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
535    
536 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
537     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
538     of new features.
539 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
540     Highly correct stuff, that is...
541 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
542     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
543 root 1.80
544 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
545 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
546 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
547 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
548     so preselect it.
549 root 1.76
550 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
551     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
552     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
553 root 1.74
554 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
555 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
556     - new module Coro::Select.
557     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
558     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
559 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
560 root 1.72
561 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
562     - made lazy context switching the default.
563     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
564     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
565     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
566     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
567    
568 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
569 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
570 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
571     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
572     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
573     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
574     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
575 root 1.69
576 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
577     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
578     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
579     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
580    
581 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
582 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
583     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
584     without Event, which freezes).
585 root 1.65
586 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
587 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
588    
589 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
590 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
591 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
592     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
593     new ones.
594     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
595 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
596 root 1.60
597 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
598 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
599     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
600     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
601    
602 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
603 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
604     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
605     error.
606 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
607 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
608     - implemented terminate with args + join.
609 root 1.54
610 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
611 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
612 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
613     in various modules.
614     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
615 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
616 root 1.48
617 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
618 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
619     inside Coro::Handle.
620 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
621     speed reasons.
622     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
623     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
624     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
625 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
626 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
627     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
628     under some circumstances.
629     - other bugfixes.
630 root 1.43
631 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
632 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
633     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
634     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
635     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
636     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
637 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
638     syntax.
639 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
640 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
641 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
642 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
643 root 1.36
644 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
645 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
646 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
647     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
648 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
649 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
650 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
651     "Callback called exit" messages).
652 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
653     - much better Coro::Socket support.
654 root 1.31
655     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
656 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
657 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
658 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
659 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
660 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
661 root 1.28
662     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
663 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
664     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
665     - new module Coro::Socket.
666    
667 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
668 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
669 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
670     for yield.
671 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
672 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
673 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
674     perl-5.6.
675 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
676     - the idle process is now overriden
677     by default in Coro::Event.
678 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
679 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
680 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
681     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
682 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
683     non-blocking i/o.
684 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
685 root 1.16
686 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
687 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
688 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
689     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
690     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
691 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
692 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
693 root 1.13
694 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
695     - release candidate 1 ;)
696     - slightly nicer code.
697     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
698    
699 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
700     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
701 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
702     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
703     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
704 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
705     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
706 root 1.9
707 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
708     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
709     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
710    
711 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
712 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
713 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
714     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
715     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
716     coroutine-specific vars.
717 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
718 root 1.4
719 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
720 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
721     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
722     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
723 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
724 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
725     model. Still crude and subject to change.
726 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
727    
728 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
729     - implemented "async" attribute.
730     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
731     - added Coro::Channel.
732     - more testcases, still no docs.
733    
734 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
735     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
736