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Revision: 1.552
Committed: Mon Feb 21 13:38:02 2011 UTC (13 years, 2 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 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
8     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
9    
10 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
11 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
12 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
13     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
14 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
15     saves quite a lot of memory.
16 root 1.548
17 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
18 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
19     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
20     method call.
21     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
22     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
23 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
24 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
25 root 1.545
26 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
27 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
28     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
29 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
30     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
31 root 1.543
32 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
33     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
34     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
35     out of the box.
36 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
37     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
38 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
39    
40 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
41 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
42     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
43     Waldorf).
44 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
45    
46 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
47     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
48 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
49 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
50     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
51     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
52     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
53     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
54 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
55     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
56     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
57 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
58 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
59 root 1.532
60     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
61 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
62     together.
63     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
64 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
65     the most common source of confusion.
66     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
67     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
68     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
69 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
70    
71 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
72 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
73 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
74 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
75 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
76 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
77     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
78     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
79     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
80 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
81     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
82 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
83 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
84     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
85 root 1.522
86 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
87 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
88     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
89 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
90 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
91     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
92     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
93 root 1.519
94 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
95 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
96 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
97 root 1.517
98 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
99     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
100     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
101 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
102     not on demand.
103 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
104 root 1.515
105 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
106 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
107     when no threads had been readied between detecting
108     the event loop and actually running it.
109 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
110     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
111 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
112     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
113 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
114     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
115 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
116 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
117 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
118     for hardcode select overriding.
119 root 1.509
120 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
121 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
122     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
123 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
124 root 1.506
125 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
126 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
127     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
128 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
129 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
130     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
131 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
132 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
133     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
134 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
135     (Coro::State::enable_times).
136 root 1.500
137 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
138 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
139     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
140     idle_upto).
141     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
142     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
143 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
144     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
145     had already been freed.
146 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
147 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
148 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
149 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
150 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
151 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
152     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
153     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
154     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
155 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
156     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
157     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
158 root 1.492
159 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
160 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
161 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
162 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
163     should support a prepare callback.
164 root 1.488
165 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
166 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
167 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
168     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
169 root 1.485
170 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
171 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
172 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
173     spurious warnings.
174 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
175     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
176     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
177 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
178     - deprecate Coro::guard.
179 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
180     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
181 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
182     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
183     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
184     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
185 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
186     to avoid needless segfaults.
187 root 1.476
188 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
189 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
190     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
191     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
192 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
193 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
194 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
195 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
196     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
197     destruction.
198 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
199 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
200 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
201     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
202     pthreads fare better?).
203     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
204 root 1.466
205 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
206 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
207     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
208     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
209    
210 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
211     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
212 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
213 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
214     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
215 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
216     LWP data transfers.
217 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
218     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
219     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
220 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
221 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
222     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
223 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
224 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
225 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
226     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
227     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
228     callbacks.
229     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
230     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
231     through the idle threads now.
232 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
233 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
234 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
235 root 1.453
236 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
237 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
238     stability issues.
239 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
240 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
241     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
242 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
243 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
244 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
245 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
246     ("Attempt to unreference...").
247 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
248     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
249     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
250 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
251 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
252     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
253 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
254     anymore.
255 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
256     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
257     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
258     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
259 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
260 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
261 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
262     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
263     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
264     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
265     those functions and atcually create new ones.
266     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
267     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
268     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
269     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
270     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
271 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
272     factor of two.
273     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
274     factor of three.
275 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
276     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
277 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
278     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
279     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
280 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
281     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
282 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
283     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
284     making signals reliable for the first time.
285 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
286     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
287 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
288     a normal async is now very small.
289 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
290 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
291 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
292     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
293 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
294 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
295 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
296 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
297 root 1.416
298 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
299     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
300     introduced in 4.801.
301    
302 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
303     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
304     ("Attempt to unreference...").
305 root 1.408
306 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
307 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
308 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
309 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
310     when destroyed.
311 root 1.404
312 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
313 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
314    
315 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
316     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
317     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
318     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
319     (unknown impact).
320 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
321     instead of being ignored.
322 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
323 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
324 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
325 root 1.398
326 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
327 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
328     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
329     also speed it up considerably.
330 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
331 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
332     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
333 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
334     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
335     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
336 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
337     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
338     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
339 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
340 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
341 root 1.391
342 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
343 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
344 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
345 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
346     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
347     aggressive compiler.
348 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
349 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
350    
351 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
352 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
353     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
354 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
355 root 1.386
356 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
357     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
358 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
359    
360 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
361 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
362 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
363 root 1.381
364 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
365 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
366     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
367     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
368 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
369 root 1.378
370 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
371     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
372    
373 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
374 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
375 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
376 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
377 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
378     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
379 root 1.372
380 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
381 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
382     code reference).
383 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
384     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
385     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
386 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
387 root 1.369
388 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
389     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
390     in Coro::Storable.
391 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
392    
393 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
394 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
395     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
396     outdated software). Reported by John S.
397 root 1.363
398 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
399 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
400     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
401     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
402    
403 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
404     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
405     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
406     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
407    
408 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
409     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
410     - require EV 3.3+.
411    
412 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
413     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
414     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
415     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
416     stuff seems just too broken.
417     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
418    
419 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
420     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
421     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
422    
423     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
424 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
425     there being runnable coroutines.
426 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
427     warnings for some other modules.
428 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
429 root 1.354
430 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
431 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
432     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
433 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
434 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
435     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
436     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
437     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
438 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
439     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
440     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
441 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
442     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
443 root 1.350
444 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
445 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
446 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
447     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
448 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
449     scheduling.
450 root 1.347
451 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
452 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
453     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
454 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
455     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
456 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
457 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
458     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
459 root 1.341
460 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
461 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
462 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
463     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
464     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
465 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
466     actual impact unknown.
467 root 1.336
468 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
469     - make it compile again on 5.8.
470    
471 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
472     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
473    
474 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
475     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
476     were compiled on 5.8 only.
477    
478 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
479 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
480     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
481     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
482 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
483 root 1.331
484 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
485 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
486     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
487     leading to crashes and worse.
488 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
489 root 1.329
490 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
491     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
492     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
493    
494 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
495 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
496     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
497 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
498     (also add testcase).
499 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
500     apparently having loads of fun with that).
501 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
502 root 1.322
503 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
504 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
505 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
506 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
507     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
508     Andreas König.
509 root 1.319
510 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
511 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
512     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
513 root 1.316
514 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
515 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
516     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
517    
518 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
519 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
520 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
521     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
522 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
523 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
524 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
525 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
526 root 1.308
527 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
528 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
529    
530 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
531     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
532    
533 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
534 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
535 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
536 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
537 root 1.301
538 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
539     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
540    
541 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
542     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
543     when the stack changed.
544 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
545     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
546     if available.
547 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
548 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
549 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
550 root 1.295
551 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
552 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
553     and Coro::Handle.
554    
555 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
556 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
557 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
558 root 1.290
559 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
560 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
561 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
562 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
563     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
564     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
565 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
566 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
567     directly supported by Coro.
568     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
569     stuff in Coro::Util.
570 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
571 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
572 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
573 root 1.282
574 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
575 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
576 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
577     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
578 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
579     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
580     This also catches recursive invocations.
581 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
582 root 1.277
583 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
584     - port to threaded perls.
585    
586 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
587 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
588     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
589 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
590     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
591 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
592     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
593     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
594     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
595     speeds up context switching a bit.
596 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
597 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
598 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
599     resulting in races between coroutines.
600     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
601 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
602     an unrelated coroutine.
603 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
604     more detail in Coro::State.
605 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
606     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
607 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
608     invalidating pointers.
609 root 1.264
610 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
611 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
612     - minor code cleanups.
613    
614 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
615 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
616 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
617     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
618     or use tracing).
619     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
620 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
621     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
622 root 1.258
623 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
624 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
625     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
626 root 1.255
627 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
628 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
629 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
630     debugging, tracing and much more.
631 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
632     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
633     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
634     flags.
635 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
636 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
637 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
638     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
639 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
640 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
641 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
642 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
643 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
644     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
645     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
646 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
647 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
648 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
649 root 1.232
650 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
651 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
652    
653 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
654     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
655 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
656 root 1.227
657 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
658 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
659     pst's sometimes.
660 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
661 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
662     be threadsafe...).
663     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
664     but stateful semantics.
665 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
666     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
667 root 1.223
668     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
669 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
670 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
671 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
672     (EXPERIMENTAL).
673 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
674     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
675     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
676     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
677 root 1.217
678 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
679 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
680     it by default.
681     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
682     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
683     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
684 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
685 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
686 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
687     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
688     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
689     performance.
690 root 1.211
691 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
692 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
693     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
694    
695 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
696     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
697     them without asking.
698    
699 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
700 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
701     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
702 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
703     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
704 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
705     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
706 root 1.204
707 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
708 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
709     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
710 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
711     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
712     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
713     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
714     obsolete platforms.
715 root 1.202
716 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
717 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
718     but was rather flaky in practise.
719 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
720     it was reused.
721 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
722     in cede_notself.
723 root 1.197
724 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
725 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
726 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
727     documented and - hopefully - improved.
728 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
729 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
730 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
731     that could errronously trigger.
732 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
733 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
734     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
735 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
736 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
737 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
738     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
739     and 128k coros with async_pool).
740 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
741 root 1.184
742 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
743 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
744 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
745 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
746     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
747     their coro replacements.
748 root 1.179
749 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
750     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
751     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
752     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
753     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
754     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
755     - save/restore tainted status.
756     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
757    
758 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
759     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
760 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
761 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
762 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
763 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
764 root 1.169
765 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
766     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
767    
768 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
769 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
770     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
771 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
772     pool (size currently hardcoded).
773 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
774 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
775 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
776 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
777 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
778     check for changed watchers.
779 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
780     per event.
781 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
782 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
783 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
784 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
785     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
786 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
787     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
788 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
789 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
790 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
791 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
792     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
793 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
794 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
795 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
796 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
797     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
798     if somebody asks for it :)
799 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
800     spuriously without the event having happened.
801 root 1.146
802 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
803 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
804     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
805 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
806     make LWP non-blocking.
807     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
808 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
809 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
810     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
811 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
812     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
813 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
814     by LWP(!!).
815     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
816 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
817     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
818     did already.
819 root 1.135
820 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
821     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
822     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
823 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
824     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
825     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
826 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
827 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
828 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
829 root 1.130
830 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
831 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
832    
833 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
834    
835 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
836 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
837     mark & sweep gc run.
838 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
839 root 1.125
840 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
841 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
842 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
843    
844 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
845 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
846 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
847 root 1.117 wrong package.
848 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
849     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
850 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
851     normally uses.
852 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
853 root 1.117
854 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
855     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
856    
857 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
858 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
859 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
860     - strict'ify some modules.
861 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
862 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
863     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
864 root 1.112
865 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
866     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
867     when 'l'inux method was used.
868    
869 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
870     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
871    
872 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
873 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
874 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
875     Coro::State::flush method.
876 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
877 root 1.106
878 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
879 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
880 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
881 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
882 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
883 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
884 root 1.100
885 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
886     - change of contact address.
887    
888 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
889 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
890 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
891 root 1.97
892 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
893 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
894 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
895     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
896 root 1.95
897 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
898     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
899    
900 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
901 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
902 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
903     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
904     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
905     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
906     fixable).
907 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
908 pcg 1.91
909 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
910 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
911     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
912 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
913 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
914     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
915     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
916     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
917 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
918 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
919 pcg 1.86
920 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
921 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
922     memory leaks.
923     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
924 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
925     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
926 pcg 1.84
927 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
928     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
929 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
930    
931 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
932     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
933     of new features.
934 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
935     Highly correct stuff, that is...
936 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
937     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
938 root 1.80
939 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
940 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
941 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
942 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
943     so preselect it.
944 root 1.76
945 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
946     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
947     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
948 root 1.74
949 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
950 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
951     - new module Coro::Select.
952     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
953     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
954 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
955 root 1.72
956 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
957     - made lazy context switching the default.
958     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
959     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
960     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
961     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
962    
963 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
964 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
965 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
966     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
967     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
968     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
969     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
970 root 1.69
971 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
972     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
973     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
974     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
975    
976 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
977 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
978     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
979     without Event, which freezes).
980 root 1.65
981 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
982 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
983    
984 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
985 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
986 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
987     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
988     new ones.
989     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
990 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
991 root 1.60
992 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
993 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
994     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
995     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
996    
997 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
998 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
999     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1000     error.
1001 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1002 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1003     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1004 root 1.54
1005 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1006 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1007 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1008     in various modules.
1009     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1010 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1011 root 1.48
1012 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1013 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1014     inside Coro::Handle.
1015 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1016     speed reasons.
1017     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1018     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1019     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1020 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1021 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1022     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1023     under some circumstances.
1024     - other bugfixes.
1025 root 1.43
1026 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1027 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1028     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1029     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1030     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1031     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1032 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1033     syntax.
1034 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1035 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1036 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1037 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1038 root 1.36
1039 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1040 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1041 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1042     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1043 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1044 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1045 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1046     "Callback called exit" messages).
1047 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1048     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1049 root 1.31
1050     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1051 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1052 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1053 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1054 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1055 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1056 root 1.28
1057     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1058 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1059     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1060     - new module Coro::Socket.
1061    
1062 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1063 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1064 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1065     for yield.
1066 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1067 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1068 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1069     perl-5.6.
1070 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1071     - the idle process is now overriden
1072     by default in Coro::Event.
1073 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1074 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1075 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1076     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1077 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1078     non-blocking i/o.
1079 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1080 root 1.16
1081 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1082 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1083 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1084     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1085     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1086 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1087 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1088 root 1.13
1089 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1090     - release candidate 1 ;)
1091     - slightly nicer code.
1092     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1093    
1094 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1095     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1096 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1097     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1098     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1099 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1100     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1101 root 1.9
1102 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1103     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1104     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1105    
1106 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1107 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1108 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1109     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1110     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1111     coroutine-specific vars.
1112 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1113 root 1.4
1114 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1115 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1116     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1117     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1118 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1119 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1120     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1121 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1122    
1123 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1124     - implemented "async" attribute.
1125     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1126     - added Coro::Channel.
1127     - more testcases, still no docs.
1128    
1129 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1130     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1131