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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 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
10     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
11    
12 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
13 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
14     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
15     method call.
16     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
17     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
18 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
19 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
20 root 1.545
21 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
22 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
23     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
24 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
25     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
26 root 1.543
27 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
28     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
29     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
30     out of the box.
31 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
32     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
33 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
34    
35 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
36 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
37     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
38     Waldorf).
39 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
40    
41 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
42     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
43 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
44 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
45     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
46     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
47     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
48     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
49 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
50     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
51     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
52 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
53 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
54 root 1.532
55     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
56 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
57     together.
58     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
59 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
60     the most common source of confusion.
61     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
62     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
63     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
64 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
65    
66 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
67 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
68 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
69 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
70 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
71 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
72     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
73     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
74     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
75 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
76     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
77 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
78 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
79     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
80 root 1.522
81 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
82 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
83     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
84 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
85 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
86     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
87     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
88 root 1.519
89 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
90 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
91 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
92 root 1.517
93 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
94     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
95     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
96 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
97     not on demand.
98 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
99 root 1.515
100 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
101 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
102     when no threads had been readied between detecting
103     the event loop and actually running it.
104 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
105     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
106 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
107     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
108 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
109     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
110 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
111 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
112 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
113     for hardcode select overriding.
114 root 1.509
115 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
116 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
117     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
118 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
119 root 1.506
120 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
121 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
122     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
123 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
124 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
125     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
126 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
127 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
128     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
129 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
130     (Coro::State::enable_times).
131 root 1.500
132 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
133 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
134     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
135     idle_upto).
136     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
137     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
138 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
139     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
140     had already been freed.
141 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
142 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
143 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
144 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
145 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
146 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
147     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
148     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
149     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
150 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
151     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
152     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
153 root 1.492
154 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
155 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
156 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
157 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
158     should support a prepare callback.
159 root 1.488
160 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
161 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
162 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
163     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
164 root 1.485
165 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
166 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
167 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
168     spurious warnings.
169 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
170     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
171     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
172 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
173     - deprecate Coro::guard.
174 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
175     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
176 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
177     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
178     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
179     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
180 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
181     to avoid needless segfaults.
182 root 1.476
183 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
184 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
185     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
186     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
187 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
188 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
189 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
190 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
191     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
192     destruction.
193 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
194 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
195 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
196     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
197     pthreads fare better?).
198     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
199 root 1.466
200 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
201 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
202     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
203     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
204    
205 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
206     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
207 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
208 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
209     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
210 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
211     LWP data transfers.
212 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
213     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
214     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
215 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
216 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
217     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
218 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
219 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
220 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
221     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
222     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
223     callbacks.
224     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
225     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
226     through the idle threads now.
227 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
228 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
229 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
230 root 1.453
231 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
232 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
233     stability issues.
234 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
235 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
236     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
237 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
238 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
239 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
240 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
241     ("Attempt to unreference...").
242 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
243     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
244     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
245 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
246 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
247     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
248 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
249     anymore.
250 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
251     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
252     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
253     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
254 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
255 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
256 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
257     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
258     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
259     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
260     those functions and atcually create new ones.
261     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
262     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
263     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
264     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
265     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
266 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
267     factor of two.
268     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
269     factor of three.
270 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
271     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
272 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
273     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
274     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
275 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
276     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
277 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
278     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
279     making signals reliable for the first time.
280 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
281     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
282 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
283     a normal async is now very small.
284 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
285 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
286 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
287     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
288 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
289 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
290 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
291 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
292 root 1.416
293 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
294     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
295     introduced in 4.801.
296    
297 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
298     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
299     ("Attempt to unreference...").
300 root 1.408
301 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
302 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
303 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
304 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
305     when destroyed.
306 root 1.404
307 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
308 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
309    
310 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
311     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
312     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
313     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
314     (unknown impact).
315 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
316     instead of being ignored.
317 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
318 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
319 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
320 root 1.398
321 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
322 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
323     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
324     also speed it up considerably.
325 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
326 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
327     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
328 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
329     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
330     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
331 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
332     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
333     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
334 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
335 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
336 root 1.391
337 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
338 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
339 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
340 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
341     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
342     aggressive compiler.
343 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
344 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
345    
346 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
347 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
348     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
349 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
350 root 1.386
351 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
352     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
353 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
354    
355 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
356 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
357 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
358 root 1.381
359 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
360 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
361     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
362     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
363 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
364 root 1.378
365 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
366     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
367    
368 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
369 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
370 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
371 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
372 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
373     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
374 root 1.372
375 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
376 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
377     code reference).
378 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
379     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
380     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
381 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
382 root 1.369
383 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
384     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
385     in Coro::Storable.
386 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
387    
388 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
389 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
390     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
391     outdated software). Reported by John S.
392 root 1.363
393 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
394 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
395     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
396     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
397    
398 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
399     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
400     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
401     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
402    
403 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
404     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
405     - require EV 3.3+.
406    
407 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
408     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
409     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
410     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
411     stuff seems just too broken.
412     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
413    
414 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
415     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
416     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
417    
418     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
419 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
420     there being runnable coroutines.
421 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
422     warnings for some other modules.
423 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
424 root 1.354
425 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
426 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
427     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
428 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
429 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
430     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
431     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
432     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
433 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
434     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
435     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
436 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
437     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
438 root 1.350
439 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
440 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
441 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
442     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
443 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
444     scheduling.
445 root 1.347
446 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
447 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
448     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
449 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
450     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
451 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
452 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
453     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
454 root 1.341
455 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
456 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
457 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
458     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
459     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
460 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
461     actual impact unknown.
462 root 1.336
463 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
464     - make it compile again on 5.8.
465    
466 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
467     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
468    
469 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
470     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
471     were compiled on 5.8 only.
472    
473 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
474 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
475     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
476     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
477 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
478 root 1.331
479 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
480 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
481     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
482     leading to crashes and worse.
483 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
484 root 1.329
485 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
486     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
487     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
488    
489 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
490 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
491     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
492 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
493     (also add testcase).
494 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
495     apparently having loads of fun with that).
496 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
497 root 1.322
498 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
499 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
500 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
501 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
502     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
503     Andreas König.
504 root 1.319
505 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
506 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
507     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
508 root 1.316
509 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
510 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
511     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
512    
513 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
514 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
515 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
516     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
517 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
518 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
519 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
520 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
521 root 1.308
522 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
523 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
524    
525 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
526     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
527    
528 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
529 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
530 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
531 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
532 root 1.301
533 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
534     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
535    
536 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
537     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
538     when the stack changed.
539 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
540     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
541     if available.
542 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
543 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
544 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
545 root 1.295
546 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
547 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
548     and Coro::Handle.
549    
550 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
551 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
552 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
553 root 1.290
554 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
555 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
556 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
557 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
558     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
559     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
560 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
561 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
562     directly supported by Coro.
563     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
564     stuff in Coro::Util.
565 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
566 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
567 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
568 root 1.282
569 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
570 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
571 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
572     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
573 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
574     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
575     This also catches recursive invocations.
576 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
577 root 1.277
578 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
579     - port to threaded perls.
580    
581 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
582 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
583     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
584 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
585     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
586 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
587     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
588     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
589     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
590     speeds up context switching a bit.
591 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
592 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
593 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
594     resulting in races between coroutines.
595     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
596 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
597     an unrelated coroutine.
598 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
599     more detail in Coro::State.
600 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
601     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
602 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
603     invalidating pointers.
604 root 1.264
605 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
606 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
607     - minor code cleanups.
608    
609 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
610 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
611 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
612     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
613     or use tracing).
614     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
615 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
616     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
617 root 1.258
618 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
619 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
620     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
621 root 1.255
622 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
623 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
624 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
625     debugging, tracing and much more.
626 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
627     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
628     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
629     flags.
630 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
631 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
632 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
633     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
634 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
635 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
636 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
637 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
638 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
639     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
640     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
641 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
642 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
643 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
644 root 1.232
645 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
646 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
647    
648 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
649     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
650 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
651 root 1.227
652 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
653 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
654     pst's sometimes.
655 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
656 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
657     be threadsafe...).
658     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
659     but stateful semantics.
660 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
661     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
662 root 1.223
663     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
664 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
665 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
666 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
667     (EXPERIMENTAL).
668 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
669     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
670     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
671     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
672 root 1.217
673 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
674 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
675     it by default.
676     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
677     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
678     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
679 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
680 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
681 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
682     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
683     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
684     performance.
685 root 1.211
686 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
687 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
688     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
689    
690 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
691     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
692     them without asking.
693    
694 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
695 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
696     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
697 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
698     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
699 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
700     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
701 root 1.204
702 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
703 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
704     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
705 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
706     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
707     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
708     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
709     obsolete platforms.
710 root 1.202
711 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
712 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
713     but was rather flaky in practise.
714 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
715     it was reused.
716 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
717     in cede_notself.
718 root 1.197
719 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
720 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
721 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
722     documented and - hopefully - improved.
723 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
724 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
725 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
726     that could errronously trigger.
727 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
728 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
729     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
730 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
731 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
732 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
733     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
734     and 128k coros with async_pool).
735 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
736 root 1.184
737 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
738 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
739 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
740 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
741     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
742     their coro replacements.
743 root 1.179
744 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
745     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
746     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
747     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
748     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
749     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
750     - save/restore tainted status.
751     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
752    
753 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
754     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
755 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
756 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
757 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
758 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
759 root 1.169
760 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
761     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
762    
763 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
764 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
765     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
766 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
767     pool (size currently hardcoded).
768 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
769 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
770 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
771 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
772 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
773     check for changed watchers.
774 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
775     per event.
776 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
777 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
778 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
779 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
780     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
781 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
782     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
783 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
784 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
785 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
786 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
787     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
788 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
789 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
790 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
791 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
792     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
793     if somebody asks for it :)
794 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
795     spuriously without the event having happened.
796 root 1.146
797 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
798 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
799     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
800 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
801     make LWP non-blocking.
802     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
803 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
804 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
805     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
806 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
807     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
808 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
809     by LWP(!!).
810     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
811 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
812     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
813     did already.
814 root 1.135
815 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
816     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
817     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
818 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
819     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
820     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
821 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
822 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
823 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
824 root 1.130
825 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
826 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
827    
828 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
829    
830 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
831 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
832     mark & sweep gc run.
833 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
834 root 1.125
835 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
836 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
837 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
838    
839 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
840 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
841 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
842 root 1.117 wrong package.
843 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
844     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
845 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
846     normally uses.
847 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
848 root 1.117
849 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
850     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
851    
852 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
853 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
854 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
855     - strict'ify some modules.
856 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
857 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
858     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
859 root 1.112
860 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
861     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
862     when 'l'inux method was used.
863    
864 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
865     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
866    
867 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
868 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
869 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
870     Coro::State::flush method.
871 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
872 root 1.106
873 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
874 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
875 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
876 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
877 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
878 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
879 root 1.100
880 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
881     - change of contact address.
882    
883 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
884 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
885 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
886 root 1.97
887 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
888 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
889 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
890     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
891 root 1.95
892 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
893     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
894    
895 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
896 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
897 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
898     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
899     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
900     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
901     fixable).
902 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
903 pcg 1.91
904 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
905 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
906     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
907 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
908 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
909     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
910     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
911     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
912 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
913 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
914 pcg 1.86
915 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
916 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
917     memory leaks.
918     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
919 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
920     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
921 pcg 1.84
922 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
923     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
924 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
925    
926 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
927     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
928     of new features.
929 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
930     Highly correct stuff, that is...
931 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
932     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
933 root 1.80
934 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
935 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
936 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
937 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
938     so preselect it.
939 root 1.76
940 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
941     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
942     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
943 root 1.74
944 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
945 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
946     - new module Coro::Select.
947     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
948     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
949 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
950 root 1.72
951 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
952     - made lazy context switching the default.
953     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
954     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
955     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
956     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
957    
958 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
959 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
960 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
961     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
962     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
963     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
964     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
965 root 1.69
966 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
967     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
968     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
969     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
970    
971 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
972 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
973     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
974     without Event, which freezes).
975 root 1.65
976 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
977 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
978    
979 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
980 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
981 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
982     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
983     new ones.
984     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
985 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
986 root 1.60
987 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
988 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
989     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
990     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
991    
992 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
993 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
994     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
995     error.
996 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
997 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
998     - implemented terminate with args + join.
999 root 1.54
1000 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1001 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1002 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1003     in various modules.
1004     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1005 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1006 root 1.48
1007 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1008 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1009     inside Coro::Handle.
1010 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1011     speed reasons.
1012     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1013     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1014     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1015 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1016 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1017     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1018     under some circumstances.
1019     - other bugfixes.
1020 root 1.43
1021 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1022 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1023     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1024     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1025     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1026     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1027 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1028     syntax.
1029 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1030 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1031 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1032 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1033 root 1.36
1034 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1035 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1036 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1037     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1038 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1039 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1040 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1041     "Callback called exit" messages).
1042 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1043     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1044 root 1.31
1045     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1046 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1047 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1048 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1049 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1050 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1051 root 1.28
1052     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1053 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1054     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1055     - new module Coro::Socket.
1056    
1057 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1058 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1059 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1060     for yield.
1061 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1062 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1063 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1064     perl-5.6.
1065 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1066     - the idle process is now overriden
1067     by default in Coro::Event.
1068 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1069 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1070 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1071     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1072 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1073     non-blocking i/o.
1074 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1075 root 1.16
1076 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1077 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1078 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1079     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1080     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1081 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1082 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1083 root 1.13
1084 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1085     - release candidate 1 ;)
1086     - slightly nicer code.
1087     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1088    
1089 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1090     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1091 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1092     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1093     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1094 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1095     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1096 root 1.9
1097 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1098     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1099     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1100    
1101 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1102 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1103 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1104     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1105     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1106     coroutine-specific vars.
1107 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1108 root 1.4
1109 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1110 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1111     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1112     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1113 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1114 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1115     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1116 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1117    
1118 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1119     - implemented "async" attribute.
1120     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1121     - added Coro::Channel.
1122     - more testcases, still no docs.
1123    
1124 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1125     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1126