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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 1.494 TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5 root 1.534 TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
6    
7 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
8 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
9     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
10    
11 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
12 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
13     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
14     method call.
15     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
16     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
17 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
18 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
19 root 1.545
20 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
21 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
22     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
23 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
24     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
25 root 1.543
26 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
27     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
28     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
29     out of the box.
30 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
31     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
32 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
33    
34 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
35 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
36     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
37     Waldorf).
38 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
39    
40 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
41     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
42 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
43 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
44     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
45     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
46     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
47     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
48 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
49     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
50     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
51 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
52 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
53 root 1.532
54     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
55 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
56     together.
57     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
58 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
59     the most common source of confusion.
60     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
61     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
62     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
63 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
64    
65 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
66 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
67 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
68 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
69 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
70 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
71     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
72     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
73     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
74 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
75     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
76 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
77 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
78     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
79 root 1.522
80 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
81 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
82     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
83 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
84 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
85     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
86     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
87 root 1.519
88 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
89 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
90 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
91 root 1.517
92 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
93     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
94     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
95 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
96     not on demand.
97 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
98 root 1.515
99 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
100 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
101     when no threads had been readied between detecting
102     the event loop and actually running it.
103 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
104     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
105 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
106     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
107 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
108     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
109 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
110 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
111 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
112     for hardcode select overriding.
113 root 1.509
114 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
115 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
116     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
117 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
118 root 1.506
119 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
120 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
121     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
122 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
123 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
124     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
125 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
126 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
127     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
128 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
129     (Coro::State::enable_times).
130 root 1.500
131 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
132 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
133     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
134     idle_upto).
135     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
136     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
137 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
138     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
139     had already been freed.
140 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
141 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
142 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
143 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
144 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
145 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
146     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
147     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
148     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
149 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
150     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
151     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
152 root 1.492
153 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
154 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
155 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
156 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
157     should support a prepare callback.
158 root 1.488
159 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
160 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
161 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
162     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
163 root 1.485
164 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
165 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
166 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
167     spurious warnings.
168 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
169     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
170     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
171 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
172     - deprecate Coro::guard.
173 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
174     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
175 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
176     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
177     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
178     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
179 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
180     to avoid needless segfaults.
181 root 1.476
182 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
183 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
184     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
185     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
186 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
187 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
188 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
189 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
190     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
191     destruction.
192 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
193 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
194 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
195     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
196     pthreads fare better?).
197     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
198 root 1.466
199 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
200 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
201     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
202     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
203    
204 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
205     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
206 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
207 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
208     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
209 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
210     LWP data transfers.
211 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
212     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
213     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
214 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
215 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
216     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
217 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
218 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
219 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
220     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
221     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
222     callbacks.
223     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
224     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
225     through the idle threads now.
226 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
227 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
228 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
229 root 1.453
230 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
231 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
232     stability issues.
233 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
234 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
235     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
236 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
237 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
238 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
239 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
240     ("Attempt to unreference...").
241 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
242     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
243     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
244 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
245 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
246     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
247 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
248     anymore.
249 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
250     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
251     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
252     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
253 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
254 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
255 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
256     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
257     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
258     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
259     those functions and atcually create new ones.
260     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
261     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
262     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
263     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
264     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
265 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
266     factor of two.
267     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
268     factor of three.
269 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
270     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
271 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
272     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
273     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
274 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
275     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
276 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
277     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
278     making signals reliable for the first time.
279 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
280     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
281 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
282     a normal async is now very small.
283 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
284 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
285 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
286     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
287 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
288 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
289 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
290 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
291 root 1.416
292 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
293     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
294     introduced in 4.801.
295    
296 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
297     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
298     ("Attempt to unreference...").
299 root 1.408
300 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
301 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
302 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
303 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
304     when destroyed.
305 root 1.404
306 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
307 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
308    
309 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
310     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
311     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
312     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
313     (unknown impact).
314 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
315     instead of being ignored.
316 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
317 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
318 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
319 root 1.398
320 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
321 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
322     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
323     also speed it up considerably.
324 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
325 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
326     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
327 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
328     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
329     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
330 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
331     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
332     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
333 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
334 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
335 root 1.391
336 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
337 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
338 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
339 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
340     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
341     aggressive compiler.
342 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
343 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
344    
345 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
346 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
347     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
348 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
349 root 1.386
350 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
351     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
352 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
353    
354 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
355 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
356 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
357 root 1.381
358 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
359 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
360     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
361     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
362 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
363 root 1.378
364 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
365     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
366    
367 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
368 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
369 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
370 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
371 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
372     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
373 root 1.372
374 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
375 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
376     code reference).
377 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
378     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
379     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
380 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
381 root 1.369
382 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
383     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
384     in Coro::Storable.
385 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
386    
387 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
388 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
389     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
390     outdated software). Reported by John S.
391 root 1.363
392 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
393 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
394     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
395     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
396    
397 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
398     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
399     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
400     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
401    
402 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
403     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
404     - require EV 3.3+.
405    
406 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
407     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
408     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
409     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
410     stuff seems just too broken.
411     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
412    
413 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
414     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
415     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
416    
417     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
418 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
419     there being runnable coroutines.
420 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
421     warnings for some other modules.
422 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
423 root 1.354
424 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
425 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
426     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
427 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
428 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
429     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
430     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
431     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
432 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
433     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
434     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
435 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
436     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
437 root 1.350
438 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
439 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
440 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
441     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
442 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
443     scheduling.
444 root 1.347
445 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
446 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
447     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
448 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
449     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
450 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
451 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
452     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
453 root 1.341
454 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
455 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
456 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
457     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
458     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
459 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
460     actual impact unknown.
461 root 1.336
462 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
463     - make it compile again on 5.8.
464    
465 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
466     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
467    
468 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
469     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
470     were compiled on 5.8 only.
471    
472 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
473 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
474     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
475     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
476 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
477 root 1.331
478 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
479 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
480     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
481     leading to crashes and worse.
482 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
483 root 1.329
484 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
485     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
486     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
487    
488 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
489 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
490     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
491 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
492     (also add testcase).
493 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
494     apparently having loads of fun with that).
495 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
496 root 1.322
497 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
498 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
499 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
500 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
501     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
502     Andreas König.
503 root 1.319
504 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
505 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
506     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
507 root 1.316
508 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
509 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
510     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
511    
512 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
513 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
514 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
515     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
516 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
517 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
518 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
519 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
520 root 1.308
521 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
522 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
523    
524 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
525     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
526    
527 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
528 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
529 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
530 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
531 root 1.301
532 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
533     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
534    
535 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
536     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
537     when the stack changed.
538 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
539     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
540     if available.
541 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
542 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
543 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
544 root 1.295
545 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
546 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
547     and Coro::Handle.
548    
549 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
550 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
551 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
552 root 1.290
553 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
554 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
555 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
556 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
557     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
558     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
559 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
560 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
561     directly supported by Coro.
562     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
563     stuff in Coro::Util.
564 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
565 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
566 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
567 root 1.282
568 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
569 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
570 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
571     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
572 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
573     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
574     This also catches recursive invocations.
575 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
576 root 1.277
577 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
578     - port to threaded perls.
579    
580 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
581 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
582     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
583 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
584     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
585 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
586     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
587     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
588     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
589     speeds up context switching a bit.
590 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
591 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
592 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
593     resulting in races between coroutines.
594     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
595 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
596     an unrelated coroutine.
597 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
598     more detail in Coro::State.
599 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
600     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
601 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
602     invalidating pointers.
603 root 1.264
604 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
605 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
606     - minor code cleanups.
607    
608 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
609 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
610 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
611     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
612     or use tracing).
613     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
614 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
615     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
616 root 1.258
617 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
618 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
619     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
620 root 1.255
621 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
622 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
623 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
624     debugging, tracing and much more.
625 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
626     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
627     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
628     flags.
629 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
630 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
631 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
632     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
633 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
634 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
635 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
636 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
637 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
638     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
639     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
640 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
641 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
642 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
643 root 1.232
644 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
645 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
646    
647 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
648     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
649 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
650 root 1.227
651 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
652 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
653     pst's sometimes.
654 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
655 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
656     be threadsafe...).
657     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
658     but stateful semantics.
659 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
660     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
661 root 1.223
662     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
663 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
664 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
665 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
666     (EXPERIMENTAL).
667 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
668     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
669     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
670     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
671 root 1.217
672 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
673 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
674     it by default.
675     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
676     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
677     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
678 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
679 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
680 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
681     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
682     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
683     performance.
684 root 1.211
685 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
686 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
687     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
688    
689 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
690     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
691     them without asking.
692    
693 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
694 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
695     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
696 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
697     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
698 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
699     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
700 root 1.204
701 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
702 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
703     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
704 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
705     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
706     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
707     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
708     obsolete platforms.
709 root 1.202
710 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
711 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
712     but was rather flaky in practise.
713 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
714     it was reused.
715 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
716     in cede_notself.
717 root 1.197
718 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
719 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
720 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
721     documented and - hopefully - improved.
722 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
723 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
724 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
725     that could errronously trigger.
726 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
727 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
728     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
729 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
730 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
731 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
732     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
733     and 128k coros with async_pool).
734 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
735 root 1.184
736 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
737 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
738 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
739 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
740     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
741     their coro replacements.
742 root 1.179
743 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
744     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
745     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
746     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
747     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
748     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
749     - save/restore tainted status.
750     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
751    
752 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
753     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
754 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
755 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
756 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
757 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
758 root 1.169
759 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
760     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
761    
762 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
763 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
764     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
765 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
766     pool (size currently hardcoded).
767 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
768 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
769 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
770 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
771 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
772     check for changed watchers.
773 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
774     per event.
775 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
776 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
777 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
778 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
779     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
780 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
781     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
782 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
783 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
784 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
785 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
786     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
787 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
788 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
789 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
790 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
791     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
792     if somebody asks for it :)
793 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
794     spuriously without the event having happened.
795 root 1.146
796 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
797 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
798     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
799 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
800     make LWP non-blocking.
801     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
802 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
803 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
804     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
805 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
806     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
807 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
808     by LWP(!!).
809     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
810 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
811     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
812     did already.
813 root 1.135
814 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
815     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
816     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
817 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
818     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
819     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
820 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
821 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
822 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
823 root 1.130
824 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
825 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
826    
827 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
828    
829 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
830 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
831     mark & sweep gc run.
832 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
833 root 1.125
834 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
835 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
836 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
837    
838 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
839 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
840 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
841 root 1.117 wrong package.
842 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
843     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
844 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
845     normally uses.
846 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
847 root 1.117
848 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
849     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
850    
851 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
852 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
853 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
854     - strict'ify some modules.
855 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
856 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
857     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
858 root 1.112
859 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
860     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
861     when 'l'inux method was used.
862    
863 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
864     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
865    
866 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
867 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
868 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
869     Coro::State::flush method.
870 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
871 root 1.106
872 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
873 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
874 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
875 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
876 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
877 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
878 root 1.100
879 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
880     - change of contact address.
881    
882 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
883 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
884 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
885 root 1.97
886 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
887 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
888 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
889     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
890 root 1.95
891 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
892     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
893    
894 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
895 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
896 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
897     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
898     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
899     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
900     fixable).
901 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
902 pcg 1.91
903 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
904 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
905     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
906 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
907 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
908     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
909     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
910     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
911 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
912 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
913 pcg 1.86
914 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
915 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
916     memory leaks.
917     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
918 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
919     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
920 pcg 1.84
921 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
922     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
923 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
924    
925 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
926     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
927     of new features.
928 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
929     Highly correct stuff, that is...
930 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
931     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
932 root 1.80
933 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
934 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
935 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
936 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
937     so preselect it.
938 root 1.76
939 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
940     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
941     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
942 root 1.74
943 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
944 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
945     - new module Coro::Select.
946     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
947     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
948 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
949 root 1.72
950 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
951     - made lazy context switching the default.
952     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
953     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
954     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
955     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
956    
957 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
958 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
959 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
960     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
961     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
962     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
963     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
964 root 1.69
965 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
966     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
967     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
968     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
969    
970 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
971 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
972     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
973     without Event, which freezes).
974 root 1.65
975 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
976 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
977    
978 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
979 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
980 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
981     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
982     new ones.
983     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
984 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
985 root 1.60
986 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
987 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
988     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
989     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
990    
991 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
992 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
993     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
994     error.
995 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
996 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
997     - implemented terminate with args + join.
998 root 1.54
999 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1000 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1001 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1002     in various modules.
1003     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1004 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1005 root 1.48
1006 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1007 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1008     inside Coro::Handle.
1009 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1010     speed reasons.
1011     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1012     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1013     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1014 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1015 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1016     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1017     under some circumstances.
1018     - other bugfixes.
1019 root 1.43
1020 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1021 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1022     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1023     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1024     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1025     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1026 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1027     syntax.
1028 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1029 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1030 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1031 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1032 root 1.36
1033 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1034 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1035 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1036     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1037 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1038 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1039 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1040     "Callback called exit" messages).
1041 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1042     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1043 root 1.31
1044     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1045 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1046 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1047 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1048 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1049 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1050 root 1.28
1051     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1052 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1053     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1054     - new module Coro::Socket.
1055    
1056 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1057 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1058 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1059     for yield.
1060 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1061 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1062 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1063     perl-5.6.
1064 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1065     - the idle process is now overriden
1066     by default in Coro::Event.
1067 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1068 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1069 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1070     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1071 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1072     non-blocking i/o.
1073 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1074 root 1.16
1075 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1076 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1077 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1078     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1079     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1080 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1081 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1082 root 1.13
1083 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1084     - release candidate 1 ;)
1085     - slightly nicer code.
1086     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1087    
1088 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1089     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1090 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1091     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1092     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1093 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1094     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1095 root 1.9
1096 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1097     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1098     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1099    
1100 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1101 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1102 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1103     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1104     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1105     coroutine-specific vars.
1106 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1107 root 1.4
1108 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1109 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1110     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1111     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1112 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1113 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1114     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1115 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1116    
1117 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1118     - implemented "async" attribute.
1119     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1120     - added Coro::Channel.
1121     - more testcases, still no docs.
1122    
1123 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1124     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1125