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Revision: 1.547
Committed: Sun Feb 13 04:39:14 2011 UTC (13 years, 3 months ago) by root
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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 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
10 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
11     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
12     method call.
13     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
14     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
15 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
16 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
17 root 1.545
18 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
19 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
20     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
21 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
22     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
23 root 1.543
24 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
25     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
26     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
27     out of the box.
28 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
29     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
30 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
31    
32 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
33 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
34     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
35     Waldorf).
36 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
37    
38 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
39     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
40 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
41 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
42     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
43     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
44     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
45     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
46 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
47     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
48     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
49 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
50 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
51 root 1.532
52     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
53 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
54     together.
55     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
56 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
57     the most common source of confusion.
58     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
59     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
60     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
61 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
62    
63 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
64 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
65 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
66 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
67 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
68 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
69     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
70     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
71     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
72 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
73     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
74 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
75 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
76     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
77 root 1.522
78 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
79 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
80     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
81 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
82 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
83     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
84     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
85 root 1.519
86 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
87 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
88 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
89 root 1.517
90 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
91     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
92     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
93 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
94     not on demand.
95 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
96 root 1.515
97 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
98 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
99     when no threads had been readied between detecting
100     the event loop and actually running it.
101 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
102     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
103 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
104     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
105 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
106     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
107 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
108 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
109 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
110     for hardcode select overriding.
111 root 1.509
112 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
113 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
114     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
115 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
116 root 1.506
117 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
118 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
119     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
120 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
121 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
122     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
123 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
124 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
125     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
126 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
127     (Coro::State::enable_times).
128 root 1.500
129 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
130 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
131     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
132     idle_upto).
133     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
134     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
135 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
136     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
137     had already been freed.
138 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
139 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
140 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
141 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
142 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
143 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
144     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
145     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
146     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
147 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
148     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
149     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
150 root 1.492
151 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
152 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
153 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
154 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
155     should support a prepare callback.
156 root 1.488
157 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
158 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
159 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
160     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
161 root 1.485
162 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
163 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
164 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
165     spurious warnings.
166 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
167     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
168     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
169 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
170     - deprecate Coro::guard.
171 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
172     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
173 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
174     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
175     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
176     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
177 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
178     to avoid needless segfaults.
179 root 1.476
180 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
181 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
182     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
183     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
184 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
185 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
186 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
187 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
188     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
189     destruction.
190 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
191 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
192 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
193     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
194     pthreads fare better?).
195     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
196 root 1.466
197 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
198 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
199     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
200     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
201    
202 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
203     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
204 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
205 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
206     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
207 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
208     LWP data transfers.
209 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
210     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
211     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
212 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
213 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
214     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
215 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
216 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
217 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
218     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
219     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
220     callbacks.
221     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
222     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
223     through the idle threads now.
224 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
225 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
226 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
227 root 1.453
228 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
229 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
230     stability issues.
231 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
232 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
233     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
234 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
235 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
236 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
237 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
238     ("Attempt to unreference...").
239 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
240     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
241     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
242 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
243 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
244     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
245 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
246     anymore.
247 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
248     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
249     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
250     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
251 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
252 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
253 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
254     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
255     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
256     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
257     those functions and atcually create new ones.
258     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
259     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
260     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
261     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
262     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
263 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
264     factor of two.
265     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
266     factor of three.
267 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
268     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
269 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
270     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
271     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
272 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
273     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
274 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
275     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
276     making signals reliable for the first time.
277 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
278     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
279 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
280     a normal async is now very small.
281 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
282 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
283 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
284     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
285 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
286 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
287 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
288 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
289 root 1.416
290 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
291     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
292     introduced in 4.801.
293    
294 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
295     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
296     ("Attempt to unreference...").
297 root 1.408
298 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
299 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
300 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
301 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
302     when destroyed.
303 root 1.404
304 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
305 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
306    
307 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
308     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
309     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
310     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
311     (unknown impact).
312 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
313     instead of being ignored.
314 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
315 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
316 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
317 root 1.398
318 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
319 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
320     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
321     also speed it up considerably.
322 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
323 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
324     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
325 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
326     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
327     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
328 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
329     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
330     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
331 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
332 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
333 root 1.391
334 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
335 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
336 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
337 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
338     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
339     aggressive compiler.
340 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
341 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
342    
343 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
344 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
345     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
346 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
347 root 1.386
348 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
349     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
350 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
351    
352 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
353 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
354 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
355 root 1.381
356 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
357 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
358     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
359     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
360 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
361 root 1.378
362 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
363     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
364    
365 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
366 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
367 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
368 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
369 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
370     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
371 root 1.372
372 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
373 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
374     code reference).
375 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
376     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
377     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
378 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
379 root 1.369
380 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
381     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
382     in Coro::Storable.
383 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
384    
385 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
386 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
387     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
388     outdated software). Reported by John S.
389 root 1.363
390 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
391 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
392     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
393     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
394    
395 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
396     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
397     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
398     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
399    
400 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
401     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
402     - require EV 3.3+.
403    
404 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
405     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
406     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
407     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
408     stuff seems just too broken.
409     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
410    
411 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
412     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
413     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
414    
415     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
416 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
417     there being runnable coroutines.
418 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
419     warnings for some other modules.
420 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
421 root 1.354
422 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
423 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
424     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
425 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
426 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
427     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
428     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
429     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
430 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
431     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
432     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
433 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
434     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
435 root 1.350
436 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
437 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
438 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
439     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
440 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
441     scheduling.
442 root 1.347
443 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
444 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
445     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
446 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
447     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
448 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
449 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
450     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
451 root 1.341
452 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
453 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
454 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
455     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
456     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
457 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
458     actual impact unknown.
459 root 1.336
460 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
461     - make it compile again on 5.8.
462    
463 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
464     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
465    
466 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
467     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
468     were compiled on 5.8 only.
469    
470 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
471 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
472     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
473     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
474 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
475 root 1.331
476 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
477 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
478     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
479     leading to crashes and worse.
480 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
481 root 1.329
482 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
483     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
484     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
485    
486 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
487 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
488     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
489 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
490     (also add testcase).
491 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
492     apparently having loads of fun with that).
493 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
494 root 1.322
495 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
496 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
497 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
498 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
499     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
500     Andreas König.
501 root 1.319
502 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
503 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
504     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
505 root 1.316
506 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
507 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
508     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
509    
510 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
511 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
512 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
513     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
514 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
515 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
516 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
517 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
518 root 1.308
519 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
520 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
521    
522 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
523     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
524    
525 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
526 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
527 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
528 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
529 root 1.301
530 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
531     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
532    
533 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
534     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
535     when the stack changed.
536 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
537     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
538     if available.
539 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
540 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
541 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
542 root 1.295
543 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
544 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
545     and Coro::Handle.
546    
547 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
548 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
549 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
550 root 1.290
551 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
552 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
553 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
554 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
555     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
556     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
557 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
558 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
559     directly supported by Coro.
560     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
561     stuff in Coro::Util.
562 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
563 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
564 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
565 root 1.282
566 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
567 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
568 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
569     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
570 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
571     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
572     This also catches recursive invocations.
573 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
574 root 1.277
575 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
576     - port to threaded perls.
577    
578 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
579 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
580     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
581 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
582     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
583 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
584     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
585     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
586     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
587     speeds up context switching a bit.
588 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
589 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
590 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
591     resulting in races between coroutines.
592     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
593 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
594     an unrelated coroutine.
595 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
596     more detail in Coro::State.
597 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
598     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
599 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
600     invalidating pointers.
601 root 1.264
602 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
603 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
604     - minor code cleanups.
605    
606 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
607 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
608 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
609     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
610     or use tracing).
611     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
612 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
613     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
614 root 1.258
615 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
616 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
617     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
618 root 1.255
619 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
620 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
621 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
622     debugging, tracing and much more.
623 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
624     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
625     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
626     flags.
627 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
628 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
629 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
630     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
631 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
632 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
633 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
634 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
635 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
636     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
637     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
638 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
639 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
640 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
641 root 1.232
642 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
643 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
644    
645 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
646     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
647 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
648 root 1.227
649 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
650 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
651     pst's sometimes.
652 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
653 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
654     be threadsafe...).
655     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
656     but stateful semantics.
657 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
658     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
659 root 1.223
660     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
661 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
662 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
663 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
664     (EXPERIMENTAL).
665 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
666     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
667     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
668     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
669 root 1.217
670 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
671 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
672     it by default.
673     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
674     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
675     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
676 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
677 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
678 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
679     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
680     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
681     performance.
682 root 1.211
683 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
684 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
685     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
686    
687 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
688     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
689     them without asking.
690    
691 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
692 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
693     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
694 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
695     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
696 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
697     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
698 root 1.204
699 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
700 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
701     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
702 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
703     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
704     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
705     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
706     obsolete platforms.
707 root 1.202
708 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
709 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
710     but was rather flaky in practise.
711 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
712     it was reused.
713 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
714     in cede_notself.
715 root 1.197
716 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
717 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
718 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
719     documented and - hopefully - improved.
720 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
721 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
722 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
723     that could errronously trigger.
724 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
725 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
726     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
727 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
728 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
729 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
730     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
731     and 128k coros with async_pool).
732 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
733 root 1.184
734 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
735 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
736 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
737 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
738     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
739     their coro replacements.
740 root 1.179
741 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
742     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
743     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
744     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
745     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
746     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
747     - save/restore tainted status.
748     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
749    
750 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
751     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
752 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
753 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
754 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
755 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
756 root 1.169
757 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
758     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
759    
760 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
761 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
762     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
763 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
764     pool (size currently hardcoded).
765 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
766 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
767 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
768 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
769 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
770     check for changed watchers.
771 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
772     per event.
773 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
774 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
775 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
776 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
777     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
778 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
779     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
780 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
781 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
782 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
783 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
784     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
785 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
786 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
787 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
788 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
789     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
790     if somebody asks for it :)
791 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
792     spuriously without the event having happened.
793 root 1.146
794 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
795 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
796     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
797 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
798     make LWP non-blocking.
799     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
800 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
801 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
802     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
803 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
804     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
805 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
806     by LWP(!!).
807     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
808 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
809     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
810     did already.
811 root 1.135
812 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
813     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
814     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
815 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
816     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
817     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
818 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
819 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
820 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
821 root 1.130
822 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
823 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
824    
825 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
826    
827 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
828 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
829     mark & sweep gc run.
830 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
831 root 1.125
832 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
833 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
834 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
835    
836 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
837 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
838 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
839 root 1.117 wrong package.
840 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
841     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
842 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
843     normally uses.
844 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
845 root 1.117
846 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
847     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
848    
849 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
850 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
851 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
852     - strict'ify some modules.
853 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
854 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
855     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
856 root 1.112
857 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
858     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
859     when 'l'inux method was used.
860    
861 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
862     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
863    
864 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
865 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
866 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
867     Coro::State::flush method.
868 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
869 root 1.106
870 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
871 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
872 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
873 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
874 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
875 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
876 root 1.100
877 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
878     - change of contact address.
879    
880 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
881 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
882 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
883 root 1.97
884 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
885 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
886 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
887     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
888 root 1.95
889 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
890     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
891    
892 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
893 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
894 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
895     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
896     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
897     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
898     fixable).
899 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
900 pcg 1.91
901 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
902 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
903     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
904 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
905 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
906     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
907     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
908     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
909 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
910 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
911 pcg 1.86
912 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
913 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
914     memory leaks.
915     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
916 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
917     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
918 pcg 1.84
919 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
920     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
921 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
922    
923 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
924     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
925     of new features.
926 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
927     Highly correct stuff, that is...
928 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
929     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
930 root 1.80
931 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
932 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
933 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
934 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
935     so preselect it.
936 root 1.76
937 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
938     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
939     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
940 root 1.74
941 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
942 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
943     - new module Coro::Select.
944     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
945     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
946 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
947 root 1.72
948 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
949     - made lazy context switching the default.
950     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
951     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
952     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
953     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
954    
955 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
956 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
957 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
958     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
959     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
960     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
961     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
962 root 1.69
963 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
964     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
965     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
966     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
967    
968 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
969 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
970     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
971     without Event, which freezes).
972 root 1.65
973 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
974 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
975    
976 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
977 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
978 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
979     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
980     new ones.
981     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
982 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
983 root 1.60
984 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
985 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
986     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
987     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
988    
989 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
990 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
991     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
992     error.
993 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
994 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
995     - implemented terminate with args + join.
996 root 1.54
997 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
998 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
999 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1000     in various modules.
1001     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1002 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1003 root 1.48
1004 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1005 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1006     inside Coro::Handle.
1007 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1008     speed reasons.
1009     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1010     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1011     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1012 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1013 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1014     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1015     under some circumstances.
1016     - other bugfixes.
1017 root 1.43
1018 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1019 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1020     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1021     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1022     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1023     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1024 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1025     syntax.
1026 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1027 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1028 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1029 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1030 root 1.36
1031 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1032 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1033 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1034     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1035 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1036 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1037 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1038     "Callback called exit" messages).
1039 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1040     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1041 root 1.31
1042     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1043 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1044 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1045 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1046 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1047 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1048 root 1.28
1049     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1050 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1051     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1052     - new module Coro::Socket.
1053    
1054 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1055 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1056 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1057     for yield.
1058 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1059 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1060 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1061     perl-5.6.
1062 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1063     - the idle process is now overriden
1064     by default in Coro::Event.
1065 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1066 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1067 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1068     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1069 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1070     non-blocking i/o.
1071 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1072 root 1.16
1073 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1074 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1075 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1076     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1077     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1078 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1079 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1080 root 1.13
1081 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1082     - release candidate 1 ;)
1083     - slightly nicer code.
1084     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1085    
1086 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1087     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1088 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1089     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1090     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1091 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1092     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1093 root 1.9
1094 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1095     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1096     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1097    
1098 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1099 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1100 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1101     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1102     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1103     coroutine-specific vars.
1104 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1105 root 1.4
1106 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1107 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1108     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1109     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1110 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1111 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1112     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1113 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1114    
1115 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1116     - implemented "async" attribute.
1117     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1118     - added Coro::Channel.
1119     - more testcases, still no docs.
1120    
1121 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1122     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
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