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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 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
10 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
11     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
12    
13 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
14 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
15     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
16     method call.
17     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
18     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
19 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
20 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
21 root 1.545
22 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
23 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
24     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
25 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
26     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
27 root 1.543
28 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
29     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
30     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
31     out of the box.
32 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
33     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
34 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
35    
36 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
37 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
38     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
39     Waldorf).
40 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
41    
42 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
43     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
44 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
45 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
46     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
47     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
48     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
49     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
50 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
51     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
52     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
53 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
54 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
55 root 1.532
56     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
57 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
58     together.
59     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
60 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
61     the most common source of confusion.
62     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
63     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
64     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
65 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
66    
67 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
68 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
69 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
70 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
71 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
72 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
73     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
74     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
75     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
76 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
77     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
78 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
79 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
80     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
81 root 1.522
82 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
83 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
84     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
85 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
86 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
87     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
88     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
89 root 1.519
90 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
91 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
92 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
93 root 1.517
94 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
95     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
96     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
97 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
98     not on demand.
99 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
100 root 1.515
101 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
102 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
103     when no threads had been readied between detecting
104     the event loop and actually running it.
105 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
106     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
107 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
108     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
109 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
110     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
111 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
112 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
113 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
114     for hardcode select overriding.
115 root 1.509
116 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
117 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
118     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
119 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
120 root 1.506
121 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
122 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
123     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
124 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
125 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
126     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
127 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
128 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
129     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
130 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
131     (Coro::State::enable_times).
132 root 1.500
133 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
134 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
135     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
136     idle_upto).
137     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
138     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
139 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
140     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
141     had already been freed.
142 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
143 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
144 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
145 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
146 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
147 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
148     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
149     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
150     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
151 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
152     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
153     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
154 root 1.492
155 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
156 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
157 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
158 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
159     should support a prepare callback.
160 root 1.488
161 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
162 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
163 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
164     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
165 root 1.485
166 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
167 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
168 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
169     spurious warnings.
170 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
171     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
172     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
173 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
174     - deprecate Coro::guard.
175 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
176     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
177 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
178     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
179     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
180     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
181 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
182     to avoid needless segfaults.
183 root 1.476
184 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
185 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
186     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
187     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
188 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
189 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
190 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
191 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
192     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
193     destruction.
194 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
195 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
196 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
197     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
198     pthreads fare better?).
199     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
200 root 1.466
201 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
202 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
203     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
204     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
205    
206 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
207     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
208 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
209 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
210     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
211 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
212     LWP data transfers.
213 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
214     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
215     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
216 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
217 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
218     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
219 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
220 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
221 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
222     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
223     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
224     callbacks.
225     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
226     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
227     through the idle threads now.
228 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
229 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
230 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
231 root 1.453
232 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
233 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
234     stability issues.
235 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
236 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
237     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
238 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
239 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
240 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
241 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
242     ("Attempt to unreference...").
243 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
244     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
245     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
246 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
247 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
248     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
249 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
250     anymore.
251 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
252     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
253     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
254     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
255 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
256 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
257 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
258     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
259     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
260     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
261     those functions and atcually create new ones.
262     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
263     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
264     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
265     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
266     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
267 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
268     factor of two.
269     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
270     factor of three.
271 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
272     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
273 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
274     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
275     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
276 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
277     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
278 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
279     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
280     making signals reliable for the first time.
281 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
282     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
283 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
284     a normal async is now very small.
285 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
286 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
287 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
288     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
289 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
290 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
291 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
292 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
293 root 1.416
294 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
295     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
296     introduced in 4.801.
297    
298 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
299     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
300     ("Attempt to unreference...").
301 root 1.408
302 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
303 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
304 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
305 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
306     when destroyed.
307 root 1.404
308 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
309 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
310    
311 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
312     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
313     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
314     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
315     (unknown impact).
316 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
317     instead of being ignored.
318 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
319 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
320 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
321 root 1.398
322 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
323 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
324     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
325     also speed it up considerably.
326 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
327 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
328     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
329 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
330     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
331     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
332 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
333     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
334     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
335 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
336 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
337 root 1.391
338 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
339 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
340 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
341 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
342     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
343     aggressive compiler.
344 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
345 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
346    
347 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
348 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
349     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
350 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
351 root 1.386
352 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
353     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
354 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
355    
356 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
357 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
358 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
359 root 1.381
360 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
361 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
362     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
363     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
364 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
365 root 1.378
366 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
367     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
368    
369 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
370 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
371 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
372 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
373 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
374     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
375 root 1.372
376 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
377 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
378     code reference).
379 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
380     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
381     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
382 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
383 root 1.369
384 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
385     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
386     in Coro::Storable.
387 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
388    
389 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
390 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
391     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
392     outdated software). Reported by John S.
393 root 1.363
394 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
395 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
396     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
397     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
398    
399 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
400     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
401     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
402     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
403    
404 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
405     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
406     - require EV 3.3+.
407    
408 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
409     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
410     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
411     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
412     stuff seems just too broken.
413     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
414    
415 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
416     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
417     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
418    
419     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
420 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
421     there being runnable coroutines.
422 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
423     warnings for some other modules.
424 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
425 root 1.354
426 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
427 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
428     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
429 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
430 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
431     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
432     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
433     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
434 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
435     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
436     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
437 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
438     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
439 root 1.350
440 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
441 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
442 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
443     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
444 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
445     scheduling.
446 root 1.347
447 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
448 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
449     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
450 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
451     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
452 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
453 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
454     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
455 root 1.341
456 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
457 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
458 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
459     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
460     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
461 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
462     actual impact unknown.
463 root 1.336
464 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
465     - make it compile again on 5.8.
466    
467 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
468     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
469    
470 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
471     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
472     were compiled on 5.8 only.
473    
474 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
475 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
476     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
477     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
478 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
479 root 1.331
480 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
481 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
482     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
483     leading to crashes and worse.
484 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
485 root 1.329
486 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
487     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
488     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
489    
490 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
491 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
492     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
493 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
494     (also add testcase).
495 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
496     apparently having loads of fun with that).
497 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
498 root 1.322
499 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
500 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
501 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
502 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
503     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
504     Andreas König.
505 root 1.319
506 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
507 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
508     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
509 root 1.316
510 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
511 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
512     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
513    
514 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
515 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
516 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
517     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
518 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
519 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
520 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
521 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
522 root 1.308
523 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
524 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
525    
526 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
527     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
528    
529 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
530 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
531 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
532 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
533 root 1.301
534 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
535     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
536    
537 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
538     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
539     when the stack changed.
540 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
541     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
542     if available.
543 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
544 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
545 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
546 root 1.295
547 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
548 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
549     and Coro::Handle.
550    
551 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
552 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
553 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
554 root 1.290
555 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
556 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
557 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
558 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
559     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
560     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
561 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
562 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
563     directly supported by Coro.
564     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
565     stuff in Coro::Util.
566 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
567 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
568 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
569 root 1.282
570 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
571 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
572 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
573     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
574 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
575     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
576     This also catches recursive invocations.
577 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
578 root 1.277
579 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
580     - port to threaded perls.
581    
582 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
583 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
584     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
585 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
586     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
587 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
588     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
589     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
590     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
591     speeds up context switching a bit.
592 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
593 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
594 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
595     resulting in races between coroutines.
596     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
597 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
598     an unrelated coroutine.
599 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
600     more detail in Coro::State.
601 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
602     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
603 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
604     invalidating pointers.
605 root 1.264
606 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
607 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
608     - minor code cleanups.
609    
610 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
611 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
612 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
613     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
614     or use tracing).
615     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
616 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
617     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
618 root 1.258
619 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
620 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
621     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
622 root 1.255
623 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
624 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
625 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
626     debugging, tracing and much more.
627 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
628     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
629     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
630     flags.
631 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
632 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
633 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
634     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
635 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
636 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
637 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
638 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
639 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
640     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
641     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
642 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
643 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
644 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
645 root 1.232
646 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
647 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
648    
649 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
650     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
651 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
652 root 1.227
653 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
654 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
655     pst's sometimes.
656 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
657 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
658     be threadsafe...).
659     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
660     but stateful semantics.
661 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
662     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
663 root 1.223
664     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
665 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
666 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
667 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
668     (EXPERIMENTAL).
669 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
670     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
671     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
672     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
673 root 1.217
674 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
675 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
676     it by default.
677     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
678     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
679     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
680 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
681 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
682 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
683     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
684     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
685     performance.
686 root 1.211
687 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
688 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
689     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
690    
691 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
692     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
693     them without asking.
694    
695 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
696 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
697     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
698 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
699     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
700 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
701     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
702 root 1.204
703 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
704 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
705     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
706 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
707     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
708     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
709     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
710     obsolete platforms.
711 root 1.202
712 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
713 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
714     but was rather flaky in practise.
715 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
716     it was reused.
717 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
718     in cede_notself.
719 root 1.197
720 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
721 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
722 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
723     documented and - hopefully - improved.
724 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
725 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
726 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
727     that could errronously trigger.
728 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
729 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
730     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
731 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
732 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
733 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
734     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
735     and 128k coros with async_pool).
736 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
737 root 1.184
738 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
739 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
740 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
741 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
742     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
743     their coro replacements.
744 root 1.179
745 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
746     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
747     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
748     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
749     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
750     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
751     - save/restore tainted status.
752     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
753    
754 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
755     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
756 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
757 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
758 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
759 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
760 root 1.169
761 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
762     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
763    
764 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
765 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
766     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
767 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
768     pool (size currently hardcoded).
769 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
770 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
771 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
772 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
773 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
774     check for changed watchers.
775 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
776     per event.
777 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
778 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
779 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
780 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
781     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
782 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
783     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
784 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
785 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
786 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
787 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
788     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
789 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
790 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
791 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
792 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
793     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
794     if somebody asks for it :)
795 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
796     spuriously without the event having happened.
797 root 1.146
798 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
799 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
800     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
801 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
802     make LWP non-blocking.
803     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
804 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
805 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
806     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
807 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
808     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
809 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
810     by LWP(!!).
811     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
812 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
813     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
814     did already.
815 root 1.135
816 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
817     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
818     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
819 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
820     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
821     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
822 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
823 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
824 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
825 root 1.130
826 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
827 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
828    
829 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
830    
831 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
832 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
833     mark & sweep gc run.
834 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
835 root 1.125
836 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
837 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
838 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
839    
840 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
841 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
842 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
843 root 1.117 wrong package.
844 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
845     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
846 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
847     normally uses.
848 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
849 root 1.117
850 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
851     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
852    
853 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
854 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
855 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
856     - strict'ify some modules.
857 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
858 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
859     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
860 root 1.112
861 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
862     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
863     when 'l'inux method was used.
864    
865 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
866     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
867    
868 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
869 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
870 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
871     Coro::State::flush method.
872 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
873 root 1.106
874 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
875 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
876 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
877 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
878 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
879 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
880 root 1.100
881 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
882     - change of contact address.
883    
884 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
885 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
886 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
887 root 1.97
888 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
889 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
890 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
891     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
892 root 1.95
893 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
894     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
895    
896 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
897 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
898 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
899     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
900     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
901     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
902     fixable).
903 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
904 pcg 1.91
905 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
906 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
907     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
908 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
909 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
910     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
911     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
912     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
913 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
914 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
915 pcg 1.86
916 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
917 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
918     memory leaks.
919     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
920 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
921     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
922 pcg 1.84
923 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
924     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
925 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
926    
927 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
928     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
929     of new features.
930 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
931     Highly correct stuff, that is...
932 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
933     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
934 root 1.80
935 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
936 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
937 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
938 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
939     so preselect it.
940 root 1.76
941 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
942     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
943     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
944 root 1.74
945 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
946 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
947     - new module Coro::Select.
948     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
949     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
950 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
951 root 1.72
952 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
953     - made lazy context switching the default.
954     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
955     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
956     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
957     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
958    
959 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
960 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
961 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
962     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
963     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
964     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
965     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
966 root 1.69
967 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
968     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
969     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
970     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
971    
972 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
973 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
974     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
975     without Event, which freezes).
976 root 1.65
977 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
978 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
979    
980 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
981 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
982 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
983     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
984     new ones.
985     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
986 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
987 root 1.60
988 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
989 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
990     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
991     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
992    
993 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
994 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
995     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
996     error.
997 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
998 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
999     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1000 root 1.54
1001 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1002 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1003 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1004     in various modules.
1005     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1006 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1007 root 1.48
1008 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1009 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1010     inside Coro::Handle.
1011 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1012     speed reasons.
1013     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1014     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1015     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1016 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1017 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1018     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1019     under some circumstances.
1020     - other bugfixes.
1021 root 1.43
1022 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1023 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1024     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1025     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1026     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1027     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1028 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1029     syntax.
1030 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1031 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1032 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1033 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1034 root 1.36
1035 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1036 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1037 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1038     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1039 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1040 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1041 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1042     "Callback called exit" messages).
1043 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1044     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1045 root 1.31
1046     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1047 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1048 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1049 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1050 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1051 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1052 root 1.28
1053     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1054 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1055     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1056     - new module Coro::Socket.
1057    
1058 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1059 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1060 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1061     for yield.
1062 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1063 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1064 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1065     perl-5.6.
1066 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1067     - the idle process is now overriden
1068     by default in Coro::Event.
1069 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1070 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1071 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1072     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1073 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1074     non-blocking i/o.
1075 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1076 root 1.16
1077 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1078 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1079 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1080     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1081     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1082 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1083 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1084 root 1.13
1085 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1086     - release candidate 1 ;)
1087     - slightly nicer code.
1088     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1089    
1090 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1091     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1092 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1093     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1094     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1095 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1096     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1097 root 1.9
1098 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1099     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1100     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1101    
1102 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1103 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1104 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1105     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1106     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1107     coroutine-specific vars.
1108 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1109 root 1.4
1110 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1111 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1112     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1113     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1114 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1115 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1116     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1117 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1118    
1119 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1120     - implemented "async" attribute.
1121     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1122     - added Coro::Channel.
1123     - more testcases, still no docs.
1124    
1125 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1126     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1127