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Revision: 1.551
Committed: Sat Feb 19 06:51:22 2011 UTC (13 years, 3 months ago) by root
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1 root 1.1 Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 root 1.113
3 root 1.382 TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell).
4 root 1.494 TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)?
5 root 1.534 TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx
6    
7 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
8 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
9 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
10     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
11 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
12     saves quite a lot of memory.
13 root 1.548
14 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
15 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
16     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
17     method call.
18     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
19     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
20 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
21 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
22 root 1.545
23 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
24 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
25     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
26 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
27     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
28 root 1.543
29 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
30     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
31     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
32     out of the box.
33 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
34     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
35 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
36    
37 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
38 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
39     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
40     Waldorf).
41 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
42    
43 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
44     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
45 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
46 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
47     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
48     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
49     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
50     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
51 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
52     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
53     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
54 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
55 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
56 root 1.532
57     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
58 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
59     together.
60     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
61 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
62     the most common source of confusion.
63     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
64     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
65     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
66 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
67    
68 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
69 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
70 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
71 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
72 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
73 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
74     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
75     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
76     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
77 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
78     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
79 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
80 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
81     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
82 root 1.522
83 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
84 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
85     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
86 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
87 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
88     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
89     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
90 root 1.519
91 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
92 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
93 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
94 root 1.517
95 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
96     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
97     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
98 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
99     not on demand.
100 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
101 root 1.515
102 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
103 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
104     when no threads had been readied between detecting
105     the event loop and actually running it.
106 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
107     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
108 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
109     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
110 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
111     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
112 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
113 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
114 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
115     for hardcode select overriding.
116 root 1.509
117 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
118 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
119     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
120 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
121 root 1.506
122 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
123 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
124     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
125 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
126 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
127     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
128 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
129 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
130     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
131 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
132     (Coro::State::enable_times).
133 root 1.500
134 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
135 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
136     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
137     idle_upto).
138     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
139     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
140 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
141     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
142     had already been freed.
143 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
144 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
145 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
146 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
147 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
148 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
149     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
150     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
151     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
152 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
153     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
154     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
155 root 1.492
156 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
157 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
158 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
159 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
160     should support a prepare callback.
161 root 1.488
162 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
163 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
164 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
165     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
166 root 1.485
167 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
168 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
169 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
170     spurious warnings.
171 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
172     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
173     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
174 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
175     - deprecate Coro::guard.
176 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
177     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
178 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
179     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
180     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
181     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
182 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
183     to avoid needless segfaults.
184 root 1.476
185 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
186 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
187     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
188     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
189 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
190 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
191 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
192 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
193     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
194     destruction.
195 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
196 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
197 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
198     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
199     pthreads fare better?).
200     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
201 root 1.466
202 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
203 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
204     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
205     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
206    
207 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
208     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
209 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
210 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
211     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
212 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
213     LWP data transfers.
214 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
215     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
216     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
217 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
218 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
219     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
220 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
221 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
222 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
223     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
224     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
225     callbacks.
226     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
227     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
228     through the idle threads now.
229 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
230 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
231 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
232 root 1.453
233 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
234 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
235     stability issues.
236 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
237 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
238     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
239 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
240 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
241 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
242 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
243     ("Attempt to unreference...").
244 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
245     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
246     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
247 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
248 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
249     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
250 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
251     anymore.
252 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
253     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
254     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
255     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
256 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
257 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
258 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
259     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
260     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
261     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
262     those functions and atcually create new ones.
263     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
264     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
265     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
266     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
267     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
268 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
269     factor of two.
270     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
271     factor of three.
272 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
273     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
274 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
275     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
276     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
277 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
278     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
279 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
280     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
281     making signals reliable for the first time.
282 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
283     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
284 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
285     a normal async is now very small.
286 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
287 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
288 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
289     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
290 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
291 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
292 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
293 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
294 root 1.416
295 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
296     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
297     introduced in 4.801.
298    
299 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
300     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
301     ("Attempt to unreference...").
302 root 1.408
303 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
304 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
305 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
306 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
307     when destroyed.
308 root 1.404
309 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
310 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
311    
312 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
313     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
314     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
315     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
316     (unknown impact).
317 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
318     instead of being ignored.
319 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
320 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
321 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
322 root 1.398
323 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
324 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
325     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
326     also speed it up considerably.
327 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
328 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
329     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
330 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
331     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
332     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
333 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
334     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
335     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
336 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
337 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
338 root 1.391
339 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
340 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
341 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
342 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
343     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
344     aggressive compiler.
345 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
346 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
347    
348 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
349 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
350     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
351 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
352 root 1.386
353 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
354     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
355 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
356    
357 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
358 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
359 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
360 root 1.381
361 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
362 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
363     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
364     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
365 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
366 root 1.378
367 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
368     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
369    
370 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
371 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
372 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
373 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
374 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
375     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
376 root 1.372
377 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
378 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
379     code reference).
380 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
381     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
382     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
383 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
384 root 1.369
385 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
386     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
387     in Coro::Storable.
388 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
389    
390 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
391 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
392     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
393     outdated software). Reported by John S.
394 root 1.363
395 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
396 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
397     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
398     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
399    
400 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
401     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
402     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
403     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
404    
405 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
406     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
407     - require EV 3.3+.
408    
409 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
410     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
411     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
412     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
413     stuff seems just too broken.
414     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
415    
416 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
417     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
418     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
419    
420     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
421 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
422     there being runnable coroutines.
423 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
424     warnings for some other modules.
425 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
426 root 1.354
427 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
428 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
429     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
430 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
431 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
432     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
433     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
434     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
435 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
436     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
437     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
438 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
439     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
440 root 1.350
441 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
442 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
443 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
444     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
445 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
446     scheduling.
447 root 1.347
448 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
449 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
450     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
451 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
452     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
453 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
454 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
455     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
456 root 1.341
457 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
458 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
459 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
460     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
461     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
462 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
463     actual impact unknown.
464 root 1.336
465 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
466     - make it compile again on 5.8.
467    
468 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
469     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
470    
471 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
472     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
473     were compiled on 5.8 only.
474    
475 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
476 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
477     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
478     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
479 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
480 root 1.331
481 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
482 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
483     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
484     leading to crashes and worse.
485 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
486 root 1.329
487 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
488     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
489     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
490    
491 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
492 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
493     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
494 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
495     (also add testcase).
496 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
497     apparently having loads of fun with that).
498 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
499 root 1.322
500 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
501 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
502 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
503 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
504     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
505     Andreas König.
506 root 1.319
507 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
508 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
509     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
510 root 1.316
511 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
512 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
513     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
514    
515 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
516 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
517 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
518     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
519 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
520 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
521 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
522 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
523 root 1.308
524 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
525 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
526    
527 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
528     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
529    
530 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
531 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
532 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
533 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
534 root 1.301
535 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
536     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
537    
538 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
539     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
540     when the stack changed.
541 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
542     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
543     if available.
544 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
545 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
546 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
547 root 1.295
548 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
549 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
550     and Coro::Handle.
551    
552 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
553 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
554 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
555 root 1.290
556 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
557 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
558 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
559 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
560     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
561     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
562 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
563 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
564     directly supported by Coro.
565     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
566     stuff in Coro::Util.
567 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
568 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
569 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
570 root 1.282
571 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
572 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
573 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
574     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
575 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
576     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
577     This also catches recursive invocations.
578 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
579 root 1.277
580 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
581     - port to threaded perls.
582    
583 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
584 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
585     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
586 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
587     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
588 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
589     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
590     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
591     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
592     speeds up context switching a bit.
593 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
594 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
595 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
596     resulting in races between coroutines.
597     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
598 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
599     an unrelated coroutine.
600 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
601     more detail in Coro::State.
602 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
603     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
604 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
605     invalidating pointers.
606 root 1.264
607 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
608 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
609     - minor code cleanups.
610    
611 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
612 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
613 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
614     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
615     or use tracing).
616     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
617 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
618     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
619 root 1.258
620 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
621 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
622     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
623 root 1.255
624 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
625 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
626 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
627     debugging, tracing and much more.
628 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
629     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
630     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
631     flags.
632 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
633 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
634 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
635     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
636 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
637 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
638 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
639 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
640 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
641     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
642     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
643 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
644 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
645 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
646 root 1.232
647 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
648 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
649    
650 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
651     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
652 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
653 root 1.227
654 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
655 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
656     pst's sometimes.
657 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
658 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
659     be threadsafe...).
660     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
661     but stateful semantics.
662 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
663     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
664 root 1.223
665     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
666 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
667 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
668 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
669     (EXPERIMENTAL).
670 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
671     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
672     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
673     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
674 root 1.217
675 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
676 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
677     it by default.
678     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
679     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
680     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
681 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
682 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
683 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
684     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
685     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
686     performance.
687 root 1.211
688 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
689 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
690     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
691    
692 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
693     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
694     them without asking.
695    
696 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
697 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
698     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
699 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
700     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
701 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
702     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
703 root 1.204
704 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
705 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
706     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
707 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
708     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
709     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
710     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
711     obsolete platforms.
712 root 1.202
713 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
714 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
715     but was rather flaky in practise.
716 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
717     it was reused.
718 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
719     in cede_notself.
720 root 1.197
721 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
722 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
723 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
724     documented and - hopefully - improved.
725 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
726 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
727 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
728     that could errronously trigger.
729 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
730 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
731     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
732 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
733 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
734 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
735     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
736     and 128k coros with async_pool).
737 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
738 root 1.184
739 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
740 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
741 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
742 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
743     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
744     their coro replacements.
745 root 1.179
746 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
747     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
748     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
749     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
750     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
751     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
752     - save/restore tainted status.
753     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
754    
755 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
756     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
757 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
758 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
759 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
760 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
761 root 1.169
762 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
763     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
764    
765 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
766 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
767     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
768 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
769     pool (size currently hardcoded).
770 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
771 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
772 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
773 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
774 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
775     check for changed watchers.
776 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
777     per event.
778 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
779 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
780 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
781 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
782     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
783 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
784     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
785 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
786 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
787 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
788 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
789     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
790 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
791 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
792 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
793 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
794     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
795     if somebody asks for it :)
796 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
797     spuriously without the event having happened.
798 root 1.146
799 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
800 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
801     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
802 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
803     make LWP non-blocking.
804     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
805 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
806 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
807     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
808 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
809     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
810 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
811     by LWP(!!).
812     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
813 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
814     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
815     did already.
816 root 1.135
817 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
818     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
819     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
820 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
821     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
822     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
823 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
824 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
825 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
826 root 1.130
827 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
828 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
829    
830 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
831    
832 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
833 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
834     mark & sweep gc run.
835 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
836 root 1.125
837 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
838 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
839 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
840    
841 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
842 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
843 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
844 root 1.117 wrong package.
845 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
846     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
847 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
848     normally uses.
849 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
850 root 1.117
851 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
852     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
853    
854 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
855 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
856 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
857     - strict'ify some modules.
858 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
859 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
860     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
861 root 1.112
862 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
863     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
864     when 'l'inux method was used.
865    
866 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
867     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
868    
869 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
870 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
871 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
872     Coro::State::flush method.
873 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
874 root 1.106
875 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
876 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
877 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
878 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
879 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
880 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
881 root 1.100
882 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
883     - change of contact address.
884    
885 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
886 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
887 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
888 root 1.97
889 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
890 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
891 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
892     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
893 root 1.95
894 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
895     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
896    
897 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
898 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
899 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
900     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
901     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
902     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
903     fixable).
904 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
905 pcg 1.91
906 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
907 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
908     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
909 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
910 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
911     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
912     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
913     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
914 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
915 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
916 pcg 1.86
917 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
918 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
919     memory leaks.
920     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
921 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
922     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
923 pcg 1.84
924 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
925     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
926 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
927    
928 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
929     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
930     of new features.
931 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
932     Highly correct stuff, that is...
933 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
934     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
935 root 1.80
936 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
937 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
938 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
939 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
940     so preselect it.
941 root 1.76
942 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
943     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
944     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
945 root 1.74
946 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
947 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
948     - new module Coro::Select.
949     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
950     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
951 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
952 root 1.72
953 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
954     - made lazy context switching the default.
955     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
956     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
957     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
958     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
959    
960 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
961 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
962 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
963     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
964     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
965     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
966     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
967 root 1.69
968 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
969     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
970     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
971     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
972    
973 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
974 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
975     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
976     without Event, which freezes).
977 root 1.65
978 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
979 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
980    
981 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
982 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
983 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
984     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
985     new ones.
986     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
987 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
988 root 1.60
989 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
990 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
991     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
992     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
993    
994 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
995 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
996     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
997     error.
998 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
999 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1000     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1001 root 1.54
1002 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1003 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1004 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1005     in various modules.
1006     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1007 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1008 root 1.48
1009 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1010 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1011     inside Coro::Handle.
1012 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1013     speed reasons.
1014     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1015     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1016     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1017 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1018 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1019     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1020     under some circumstances.
1021     - other bugfixes.
1022 root 1.43
1023 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1024 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1025     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1026     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1027     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1028     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1029 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1030     syntax.
1031 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1032 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1033 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1034 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1035 root 1.36
1036 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1037 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1038 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1039     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1040 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1041 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1042 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1043     "Callback called exit" messages).
1044 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1045     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1046 root 1.31
1047     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1048 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1049 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1050 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1051 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1052 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1053 root 1.28
1054     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1055 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1056     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1057     - new module Coro::Socket.
1058    
1059 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1060 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1061 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1062     for yield.
1063 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1064 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1065 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1066     perl-5.6.
1067 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1068     - the idle process is now overriden
1069     by default in Coro::Event.
1070 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1071 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1072 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1073     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1074 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1075     non-blocking i/o.
1076 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1077 root 1.16
1078 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1079 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1080 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1081     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1082     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1083 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1084 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1085 root 1.13
1086 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1087     - release candidate 1 ;)
1088     - slightly nicer code.
1089     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1090    
1091 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1092     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1093 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1094     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1095     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1096 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1097     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1098 root 1.9
1099 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1100     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1101     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1102    
1103 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1104 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1105 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1106     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1107     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1108     coroutine-specific vars.
1109 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1110 root 1.4
1111 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1112 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1113     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1114     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1115 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1116 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1117     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1118 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1119    
1120 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1121     - implemented "async" attribute.
1122     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1123     - added Coro::Channel.
1124     - more testcases, still no docs.
1125    
1126 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1127     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
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