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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.382 TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4 root 1.487 TODO: unready_all
5 root 1.490 TODO: myhttpd header parsing
6 root 1.494 TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
7 root 1.534 TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
8    
9 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
10     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
11     method call.
12     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
13     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
14    
15 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
16 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
17     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
18 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
19     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
20 root 1.543
21 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
22     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
23     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
24     out of the box.
25 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
26     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
27 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
28    
29 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
30 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
31     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
32     Waldorf).
33 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
34    
35 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
36     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
37 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
38 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
39     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
40     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
41     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
42     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
43 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
44     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
45     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
46 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
47 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
48 root 1.532
49     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
50 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
51     together.
52     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
53 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
54     the most common source of confusion.
55     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
56     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
57     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
58 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
59    
60 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
61 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
62 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
63 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
64 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
65 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
66     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
67     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
68     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
69 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
70     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
71 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
72 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
73     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
74 root 1.522
75 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
76 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
77     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
78 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
79 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
80     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
81     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
82 root 1.519
83 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
84 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
85 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
86 root 1.517
87 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
88     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
89     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
90 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
91     not on demand.
92 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
93 root 1.515
94 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
95 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
96     when no threads had been readied between detecting
97     the event loop and actually running it.
98 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
99     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
100 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
101     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
102 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
103     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
104 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
105 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
106 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
107     for hardcode select overriding.
108 root 1.509
109 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
110 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
111     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
112 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
113 root 1.506
114 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
115 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
116     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
117 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
118 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
119     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
120 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
121 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
122     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
123 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
124     (Coro::State::enable_times).
125 root 1.500
126 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
127 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
128     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
129     idle_upto).
130     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
131     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
132 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
133     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
134     had already been freed.
135 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
136 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
137 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
138 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
139 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
140 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
141     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
142     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
143     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
144 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
145     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
146     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
147 root 1.492
148 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
149 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
150 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
151 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
152     should support a prepare callback.
153 root 1.488
154 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
155 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
156 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
157     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
158 root 1.485
159 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
160 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
161 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
162     spurious warnings.
163 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
164     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
165     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
166 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
167     - deprecate Coro::guard.
168 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
169     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
170 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
171     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
172     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
173     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
174 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
175     to avoid needless segfaults.
176 root 1.476
177 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
178 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
179     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
180     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
181 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
182 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
183 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
184 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
185     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
186     destruction.
187 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
188 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
189 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
190     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
191     pthreads fare better?).
192     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
193 root 1.466
194 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
195 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
196     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
197     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
198    
199 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
200     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
201 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
202 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
203     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
204 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
205     LWP data transfers.
206 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
207     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
208     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
209 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
210 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
211     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
212 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
213 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
214 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
215     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
216     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
217     callbacks.
218     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
219     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
220     through the idle threads now.
221 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
222 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
223 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
224 root 1.453
225 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
226 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
227     stability issues.
228 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
229 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
230     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
231 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
232 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
233 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
234 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
235     ("Attempt to unreference...").
236 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
237     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
238     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
239 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
240 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
241     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
242 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
243     anymore.
244 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
245     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
246     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
247     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
248 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
249 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
250 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
251     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
252     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
253     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
254     those functions and atcually create new ones.
255     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
256     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
257     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
258     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
259     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
260 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
261     factor of two.
262     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
263     factor of three.
264 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
265     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
266 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
267     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
268     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
269 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
270     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
271 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
272     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
273     making signals reliable for the first time.
274 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
275     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
276 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
277     a normal async is now very small.
278 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
279 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
280 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
281     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
282 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
283 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
284 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
285 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
286 root 1.416
287 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
288     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
289     introduced in 4.801.
290    
291 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
292     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
293     ("Attempt to unreference...").
294 root 1.408
295 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
296 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
297 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
298 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
299     when destroyed.
300 root 1.404
301 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
302 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
303    
304 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
305     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
306     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
307     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
308     (unknown impact).
309 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
310     instead of being ignored.
311 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
312 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
313 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
314 root 1.398
315 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
316 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
317     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
318     also speed it up considerably.
319 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
320 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
321     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
322 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
323     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
324     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
325 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
326     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
327     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
328 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
329 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
330 root 1.391
331 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
332 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
333 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
334 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
335     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
336     aggressive compiler.
337 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
338 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
339    
340 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
341 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
342     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
343 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
344 root 1.386
345 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
346     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
347 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
348    
349 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
350 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
351 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
352 root 1.381
353 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
354 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
355     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
356     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
357 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
358 root 1.378
359 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
360     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
361    
362 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
363 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
364 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
365 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
366 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
367     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
368 root 1.372
369 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
370 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
371     code reference).
372 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
373     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
374     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
375 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
376 root 1.369
377 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
378     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
379     in Coro::Storable.
380 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
381    
382 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
383 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
384     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
385     outdated software). Reported by John S.
386 root 1.363
387 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
388 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
389     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
390     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
391    
392 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
393     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
394     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
395     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
396    
397 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
398     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
399     - require EV 3.3+.
400    
401 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
402     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
403     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
404     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
405     stuff seems just too broken.
406     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
407    
408 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
409     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
410     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
411    
412     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
413 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
414     there being runnable coroutines.
415 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
416     warnings for some other modules.
417 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
418 root 1.354
419 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
420 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
421     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
422 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
423 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
424     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
425     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
426     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
427 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
428     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
429     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
430 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
431     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
432 root 1.350
433 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
434 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
435 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
436     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
437 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
438     scheduling.
439 root 1.347
440 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
441 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
442     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
443 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
444     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
445 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
446 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
447     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
448 root 1.341
449 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
450 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
451 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
452     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
453     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
454 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
455     actual impact unknown.
456 root 1.336
457 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
458     - make it compile again on 5.8.
459    
460 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
461     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
462    
463 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
464     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
465     were compiled on 5.8 only.
466    
467 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
468 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
469     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
470     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
471 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
472 root 1.331
473 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
474 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
475     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
476     leading to crashes and worse.
477 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
478 root 1.329
479 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
480     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
481     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
482    
483 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
484 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
485     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
486 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
487     (also add testcase).
488 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
489     apparently having loads of fun with that).
490 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
491 root 1.322
492 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
493 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
494 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
495 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
496     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
497     Andreas König.
498 root 1.319
499 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
500 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
501     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
502 root 1.316
503 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
504 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
505     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
506    
507 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
508 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
509 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
510     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
511 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
512 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
513 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
514 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
515 root 1.308
516 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
517 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
518    
519 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
520     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
521    
522 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
523 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
524 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
525 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
526 root 1.301
527 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
528     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
529    
530 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
531     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
532     when the stack changed.
533 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
534     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
535     if available.
536 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
537 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
538 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
539 root 1.295
540 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
541 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
542     and Coro::Handle.
543    
544 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
545 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
546 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
547 root 1.290
548 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
549 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
550 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
551 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
552     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
553     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
554 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
555 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
556     directly supported by Coro.
557     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
558     stuff in Coro::Util.
559 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
560 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
561 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
562 root 1.282
563 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
564 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
565 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
566     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
567 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
568     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
569     This also catches recursive invocations.
570 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
571 root 1.277
572 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
573     - port to threaded perls.
574    
575 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
576 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
577     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
578 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
579     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
580 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
581     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
582     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
583     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
584     speeds up context switching a bit.
585 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
586 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
587 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
588     resulting in races between coroutines.
589     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
590 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
591     an unrelated coroutine.
592 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
593     more detail in Coro::State.
594 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
595     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
596 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
597     invalidating pointers.
598 root 1.264
599 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
600 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
601     - minor code cleanups.
602    
603 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
604 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
605 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
606     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
607     or use tracing).
608     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
609 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
610     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
611 root 1.258
612 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
613 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
614     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
615 root 1.255
616 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
617 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
618 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
619     debugging, tracing and much more.
620 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
621     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
622     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
623     flags.
624 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
625 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
626 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
627     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
628 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
629 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
630 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
631 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
632 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
633     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
634     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
635 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
636 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
637 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
638 root 1.232
639 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
640 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
641    
642 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
643     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
644 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
645 root 1.227
646 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
647 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
648     pst's sometimes.
649 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
650 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
651     be threadsafe...).
652     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
653     but stateful semantics.
654 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
655     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
656 root 1.223
657     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
658 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
659 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
660 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
661     (EXPERIMENTAL).
662 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
663     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
664     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
665     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
666 root 1.217
667 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
668 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
669     it by default.
670     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
671     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
672     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
673 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
674 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
675 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
676     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
677     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
678     performance.
679 root 1.211
680 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
681 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
682     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
683    
684 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
685     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
686     them without asking.
687    
688 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
689 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
690     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
691 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
692     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
693 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
694     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
695 root 1.204
696 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
697 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
698     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
699 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
700     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
701     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
702     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
703     obsolete platforms.
704 root 1.202
705 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
706 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
707     but was rather flaky in practise.
708 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
709     it was reused.
710 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
711     in cede_notself.
712 root 1.197
713 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
714 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
715 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
716     documented and - hopefully - improved.
717 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
718 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
719 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
720     that could errronously trigger.
721 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
722 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
723     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
724 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
725 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
726 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
727     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
728     and 128k coros with async_pool).
729 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
730 root 1.184
731 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
732 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
733 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
734 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
735     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
736     their coro replacements.
737 root 1.179
738 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
739     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
740     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
741     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
742     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
743     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
744     - save/restore tainted status.
745     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
746    
747 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
748     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
749 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
750 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
751 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
752 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
753 root 1.169
754 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
755     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
756    
757 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
758 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
759     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
760 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
761     pool (size currently hardcoded).
762 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
763 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
764 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
765 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
766 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
767     check for changed watchers.
768 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
769     per event.
770 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
771 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
772 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
773 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
774     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
775 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
776     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
777 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
778 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
779 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
780 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
781     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
782 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
783 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
784 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
785 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
786     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
787     if somebody asks for it :)
788 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
789     spuriously without the event having happened.
790 root 1.146
791 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
792 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
793     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
794 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
795     make LWP non-blocking.
796     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
797 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
798 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
799     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
800 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
801     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
802 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
803     by LWP(!!).
804     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
805 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
806     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
807     did already.
808 root 1.135
809 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
810     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
811     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
812 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
813     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
814     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
815 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
816 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
817 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
818 root 1.130
819 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
820 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
821    
822 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
823    
824 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
825 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
826     mark & sweep gc run.
827 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
828 root 1.125
829 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
830 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
831 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
832    
833 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
834 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
835 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
836 root 1.117 wrong package.
837 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
838     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
839 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
840     normally uses.
841 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
842 root 1.117
843 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
844     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
845    
846 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
847 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
848 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
849     - strict'ify some modules.
850 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
851 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
852     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
853 root 1.112
854 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
855     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
856     when 'l'inux method was used.
857    
858 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
859     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
860    
861 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
862 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
863 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
864     Coro::State::flush method.
865 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
866 root 1.106
867 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
868 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
869 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
870 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
871 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
872 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
873 root 1.100
874 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
875     - change of contact address.
876    
877 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
878 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
879 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
880 root 1.97
881 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
882 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
883 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
884     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
885 root 1.95
886 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
887     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
888    
889 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
890 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
891 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
892     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
893     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
894     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
895     fixable).
896 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
897 pcg 1.91
898 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
899 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
900     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
901 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
902 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
903     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
904     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
905     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
906 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
907 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
908 pcg 1.86
909 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
910 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
911     memory leaks.
912     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
913 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
914     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
915 pcg 1.84
916 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
917     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
918 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
919    
920 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
921     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
922     of new features.
923 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
924     Highly correct stuff, that is...
925 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
926     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
927 root 1.80
928 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
929 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
930 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
931 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
932     so preselect it.
933 root 1.76
934 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
935     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
936     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
937 root 1.74
938 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
939 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
940     - new module Coro::Select.
941     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
942     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
943 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
944 root 1.72
945 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
946     - made lazy context switching the default.
947     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
948     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
949     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
950     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
951    
952 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
953 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
954 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
955     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
956     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
957     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
958     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
959 root 1.69
960 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
961     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
962     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
963     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
964    
965 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
966 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
967     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
968     without Event, which freezes).
969 root 1.65
970 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
971 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
972    
973 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
974 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
975 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
976     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
977     new ones.
978     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
979 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
980 root 1.60
981 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
982 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
983     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
984     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
985    
986 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
987 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
988     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
989     error.
990 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
991 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
992     - implemented terminate with args + join.
993 root 1.54
994 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
995 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
996 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
997     in various modules.
998     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
999 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1000 root 1.48
1001 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1002 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1003     inside Coro::Handle.
1004 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1005     speed reasons.
1006     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1007     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1008     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1009 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1010 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1011     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1012     under some circumstances.
1013     - other bugfixes.
1014 root 1.43
1015 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1016 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1017     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1018     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1019     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1020     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1021 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1022     syntax.
1023 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1024 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1025 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1026 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1027 root 1.36
1028 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1029 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1030 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1031     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1032 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1033 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1034 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1035     "Callback called exit" messages).
1036 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1037     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1038 root 1.31
1039     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1040 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1041 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1042 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1043 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1044 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1045 root 1.28
1046     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1047 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1048     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1049     - new module Coro::Socket.
1050    
1051 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1052 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1053 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1054     for yield.
1055 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1056 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1057 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1058     perl-5.6.
1059 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1060     - the idle process is now overriden
1061     by default in Coro::Event.
1062 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1063 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1064 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1065     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1066 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1067     non-blocking i/o.
1068 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1069 root 1.16
1070 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1071 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1072 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1073     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1074     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1075 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1076 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1077 root 1.13
1078 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1079     - release candidate 1 ;)
1080     - slightly nicer code.
1081     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1082    
1083 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1084     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1085 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1086     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1087     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1088 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1089     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1090 root 1.9
1091 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1092     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1093     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1094    
1095 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1096 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1097 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1098     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1099     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1100     coroutine-specific vars.
1101 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1102 root 1.4
1103 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1104 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1105     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1106     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1107 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1108 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1109     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1110 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1111    
1112 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1113     - implemented "async" attribute.
1114     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1115     - added Coro::Channel.
1116     - more testcases, still no docs.
1117    
1118 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1119     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
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