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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 1.553 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
8     - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
9     work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
10     my attention by Max Maischein).
11     - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
12    
13 root 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
14     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
15    
16 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
17 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
18 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
19     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
20 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
21     saves quite a lot of memory.
22 root 1.548
23 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
24 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
25     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
26     method call.
27     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
28     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
29 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
30 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
31 root 1.545
32 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
33 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
34     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
35 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
36     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
37 root 1.543
38 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
39     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
40     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
41     out of the box.
42 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
43     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
44 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
45    
46 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
47 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
48     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
49     Waldorf).
50 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
51    
52 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
53     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
54 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
55 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
56     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
57     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
58     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
59     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
60 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
61     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
62     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
63 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
64 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
65 root 1.532
66     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
67 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
68     together.
69     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
70 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
71     the most common source of confusion.
72     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
73     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
74     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
75 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
76    
77 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
78 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
79 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
80 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
81 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
82 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
83     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
84     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
85     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
86 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
87     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
88 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
89 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
90     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
91 root 1.522
92 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
93 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
94     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
95 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
96 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
97     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
98     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
99 root 1.519
100 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
101 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
102 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
103 root 1.517
104 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
105     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
106     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
107 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
108     not on demand.
109 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
110 root 1.515
111 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
112 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
113     when no threads had been readied between detecting
114     the event loop and actually running it.
115 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
116     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
117 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
118     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
119 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
120     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
121 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
122 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
123 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
124     for hardcode select overriding.
125 root 1.509
126 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
127 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
128     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
129 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
130 root 1.506
131 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
132 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
133     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
134 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
135 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
136     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
137 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
138 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
139     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
140 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
141     (Coro::State::enable_times).
142 root 1.500
143 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
144 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
145     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
146     idle_upto).
147     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
148     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
149 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
150     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
151     had already been freed.
152 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
153 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
154 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
155 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
156 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
157 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
158     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
159     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
160     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
161 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
162     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
163     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
164 root 1.492
165 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
166 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
167 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
168 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
169     should support a prepare callback.
170 root 1.488
171 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
172 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
173 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
174     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
175 root 1.485
176 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
177 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
178 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
179     spurious warnings.
180 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
181     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
182     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
183 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
184     - deprecate Coro::guard.
185 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
186     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
187 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
188     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
189     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
190     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
191 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
192     to avoid needless segfaults.
193 root 1.476
194 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
195 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
196     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
197     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
198 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
199 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
200 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
201 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
202     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
203     destruction.
204 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
205 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
206 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
207     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
208     pthreads fare better?).
209     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
210 root 1.466
211 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
212 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
213     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
214     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
215    
216 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
217     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
218 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
219 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
220     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
221 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
222     LWP data transfers.
223 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
224     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
225     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
226 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
227 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
228     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
229 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
230 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
231 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
232     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
233     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
234     callbacks.
235     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
236     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
237     through the idle threads now.
238 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
239 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
240 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
241 root 1.453
242 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
243 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
244     stability issues.
245 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
246 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
247     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
248 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
249 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
250 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
251 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
252     ("Attempt to unreference...").
253 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
254     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
255     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
256 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
257 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
258     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
259 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
260     anymore.
261 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
262     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
263     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
264     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
265 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
266 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
267 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
268     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
269     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
270     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
271     those functions and atcually create new ones.
272     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
273     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
274     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
275     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
276     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
277 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
278     factor of two.
279     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
280     factor of three.
281 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
282     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
283 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
284     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
285     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
286 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
287     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
288 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
289     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
290     making signals reliable for the first time.
291 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
292     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
293 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
294     a normal async is now very small.
295 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
296 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
297 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
298     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
299 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
300 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
301 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
302 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
303 root 1.416
304 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
305     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
306     introduced in 4.801.
307    
308 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
309     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
310     ("Attempt to unreference...").
311 root 1.408
312 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
313 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
314 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
315 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
316     when destroyed.
317 root 1.404
318 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
319 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
320    
321 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
322     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
323     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
324     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
325     (unknown impact).
326 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
327     instead of being ignored.
328 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
329 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
330 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
331 root 1.398
332 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
333 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
334     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
335     also speed it up considerably.
336 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
337 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
338     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
339 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
340     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
341     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
342 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
343     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
344     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
345 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
346 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
347 root 1.391
348 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
349 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
350 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
351 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
352     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
353     aggressive compiler.
354 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
355 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
356    
357 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
358 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
359     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
360 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
361 root 1.386
362 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
363     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
364 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
365    
366 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
367 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
368 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
369 root 1.381
370 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
371 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
372     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
373     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
374 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
375 root 1.378
376 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
377     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
378    
379 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
380 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
381 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
382 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
383 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
384     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
385 root 1.372
386 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
387 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
388     code reference).
389 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
390     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
391     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
392 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
393 root 1.369
394 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
395     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
396     in Coro::Storable.
397 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
398    
399 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
400 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
401     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
402     outdated software). Reported by John S.
403 root 1.363
404 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
405 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
406     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
407     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
408    
409 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
410     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
411     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
412     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
413    
414 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
415     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
416     - require EV 3.3+.
417    
418 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
419     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
420     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
421     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
422     stuff seems just too broken.
423     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
424    
425 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
426     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
427     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
428    
429     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
430 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
431     there being runnable coroutines.
432 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
433     warnings for some other modules.
434 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
435 root 1.354
436 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
437 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
438     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
439 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
440 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
441     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
442     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
443     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
444 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
445     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
446     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
447 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
448     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
449 root 1.350
450 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
451 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
452 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
453     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
454 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
455     scheduling.
456 root 1.347
457 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
458 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
459     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
460 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
461     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
462 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
463 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
464     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
465 root 1.341
466 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
467 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
468 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
469     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
470     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
471 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
472     actual impact unknown.
473 root 1.336
474 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
475     - make it compile again on 5.8.
476    
477 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
478     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
479    
480 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
481     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
482     were compiled on 5.8 only.
483    
484 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
485 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
486     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
487     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
488 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
489 root 1.331
490 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
491 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
492     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
493     leading to crashes and worse.
494 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
495 root 1.329
496 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
497     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
498     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
499    
500 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
501 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
502     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
503 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
504     (also add testcase).
505 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
506     apparently having loads of fun with that).
507 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
508 root 1.322
509 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
510 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
511 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
512 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
513     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
514     Andreas König.
515 root 1.319
516 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
517 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
518     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
519 root 1.316
520 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
521 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
522     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
523    
524 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
525 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
526 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
527     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
528 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
529 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
530 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
531 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
532 root 1.308
533 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
534 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
535    
536 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
537     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
538    
539 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
540 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
541 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
542 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
543 root 1.301
544 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
545     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
546    
547 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
548     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
549     when the stack changed.
550 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
551     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
552     if available.
553 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
554 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
555 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
556 root 1.295
557 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
558 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
559     and Coro::Handle.
560    
561 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
562 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
563 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
564 root 1.290
565 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
566 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
567 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
568 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
569     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
570     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
571 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
572 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
573     directly supported by Coro.
574     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
575     stuff in Coro::Util.
576 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
577 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
578 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
579 root 1.282
580 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
581 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
582 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
583     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
584 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
585     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
586     This also catches recursive invocations.
587 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
588 root 1.277
589 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
590     - port to threaded perls.
591    
592 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
593 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
594     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
595 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
596     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
597 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
598     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
599     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
600     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
601     speeds up context switching a bit.
602 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
603 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
604 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
605     resulting in races between coroutines.
606     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
607 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
608     an unrelated coroutine.
609 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
610     more detail in Coro::State.
611 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
612     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
613 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
614     invalidating pointers.
615 root 1.264
616 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
617 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
618     - minor code cleanups.
619    
620 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
621 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
622 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
623     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
624     or use tracing).
625     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
626 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
627     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
628 root 1.258
629 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
630 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
631     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
632 root 1.255
633 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
634 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
635 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
636     debugging, tracing and much more.
637 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
638     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
639     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
640     flags.
641 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
642 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
643 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
644     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
645 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
646 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
647 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
648 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
649 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
650     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
651     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
652 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
653 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
654 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
655 root 1.232
656 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
657 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
658    
659 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
660     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
661 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
662 root 1.227
663 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
664 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
665     pst's sometimes.
666 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
667 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
668     be threadsafe...).
669     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
670     but stateful semantics.
671 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
672     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
673 root 1.223
674     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
675 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
676 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
677 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
678     (EXPERIMENTAL).
679 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
680     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
681     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
682     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
683 root 1.217
684 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
685 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
686     it by default.
687     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
688     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
689     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
690 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
691 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
692 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
693     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
694     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
695     performance.
696 root 1.211
697 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
698 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
699     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
700    
701 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
702     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
703     them without asking.
704    
705 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
706 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
707     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
708 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
709     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
710 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
711     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
712 root 1.204
713 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
714 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
715     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
716 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
717     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
718     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
719     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
720     obsolete platforms.
721 root 1.202
722 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
723 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
724     but was rather flaky in practise.
725 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
726     it was reused.
727 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
728     in cede_notself.
729 root 1.197
730 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
731 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
732 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
733     documented and - hopefully - improved.
734 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
735 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
736 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
737     that could errronously trigger.
738 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
739 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
740     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
741 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
742 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
743 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
744     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
745     and 128k coros with async_pool).
746 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
747 root 1.184
748 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
749 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
750 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
751 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
752     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
753     their coro replacements.
754 root 1.179
755 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
756     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
757     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
758     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
759     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
760     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
761     - save/restore tainted status.
762     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
763    
764 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
765     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
766 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
767 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
768 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
769 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
770 root 1.169
771 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
772     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
773    
774 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
775 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
776     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
777 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
778     pool (size currently hardcoded).
779 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
780 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
781 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
782 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
783 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
784     check for changed watchers.
785 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
786     per event.
787 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
788 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
789 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
790 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
791     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
792 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
793     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
794 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
795 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
796 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
797 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
798     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
799 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
800 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
801 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
802 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
803     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
804     if somebody asks for it :)
805 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
806     spuriously without the event having happened.
807 root 1.146
808 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
809 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
810     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
811 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
812     make LWP non-blocking.
813     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
814 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
815 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
816     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
817 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
818     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
819 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
820     by LWP(!!).
821     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
822 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
823     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
824     did already.
825 root 1.135
826 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
827     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
828     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
829 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
830     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
831     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
832 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
833 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
834 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
835 root 1.130
836 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
837 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
838    
839 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
840    
841 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
842 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
843     mark & sweep gc run.
844 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
845 root 1.125
846 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
847 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
848 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
849    
850 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
851 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
852 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
853 root 1.117 wrong package.
854 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
855     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
856 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
857     normally uses.
858 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
859 root 1.117
860 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
861     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
862    
863 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
864 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
865 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
866     - strict'ify some modules.
867 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
868 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
869     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
870 root 1.112
871 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
872     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
873     when 'l'inux method was used.
874    
875 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
876     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
877    
878 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
879 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
880 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
881     Coro::State::flush method.
882 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
883 root 1.106
884 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
885 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
886 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
887 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
888 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
889 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
890 root 1.100
891 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
892     - change of contact address.
893    
894 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
895 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
896 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
897 root 1.97
898 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
899 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
900 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
901     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
902 root 1.95
903 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
904     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
905    
906 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
907 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
908 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
909     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
910     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
911     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
912     fixable).
913 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
914 pcg 1.91
915 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
916 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
917     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
918 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
919 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
920     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
921     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
922     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
923 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
924 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
925 pcg 1.86
926 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
927 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
928     memory leaks.
929     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
930 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
931     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
932 pcg 1.84
933 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
934     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
935 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
936    
937 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
938     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
939     of new features.
940 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
941     Highly correct stuff, that is...
942 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
943     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
944 root 1.80
945 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
946 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
947 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
948 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
949     so preselect it.
950 root 1.76
951 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
952     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
953     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
954 root 1.74
955 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
956 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
957     - new module Coro::Select.
958     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
959     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
960 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
961 root 1.72
962 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
963     - made lazy context switching the default.
964     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
965     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
966     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
967     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
968    
969 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
970 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
971 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
972     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
973     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
974     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
975     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
976 root 1.69
977 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
978     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
979     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
980     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
981    
982 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
983 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
984     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
985     without Event, which freezes).
986 root 1.65
987 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
988 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
989    
990 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
991 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
992 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
993     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
994     new ones.
995     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
996 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
997 root 1.60
998 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
999 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1000     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1001     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1002    
1003 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1004 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1005     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1006     error.
1007 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1008 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1009     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1010 root 1.54
1011 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1012 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1013 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1014     in various modules.
1015     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1016 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1017 root 1.48
1018 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1019 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1020     inside Coro::Handle.
1021 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1022     speed reasons.
1023     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1024     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1025     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1026 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1027 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1028     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1029     under some circumstances.
1030     - other bugfixes.
1031 root 1.43
1032 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1033 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1034     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1035     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1036     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1037     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1038 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1039     syntax.
1040 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1041 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1042 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1043 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1044 root 1.36
1045 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1046 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1047 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1048     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1049 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1050 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1051 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1052     "Callback called exit" messages).
1053 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1054     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1055 root 1.31
1056     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1057 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1058 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1059 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1060 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1061 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1062 root 1.28
1063     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1064 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1065     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1066     - new module Coro::Socket.
1067    
1068 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1069 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1070 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1071     for yield.
1072 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1073 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1074 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1075     perl-5.6.
1076 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1077     - the idle process is now overriden
1078     by default in Coro::Event.
1079 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1080 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1081 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1082     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1083 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1084     non-blocking i/o.
1085 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1086 root 1.16
1087 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1088 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1089 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1090     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1091     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1092 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1093 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1094 root 1.13
1095 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1096     - release candidate 1 ;)
1097     - slightly nicer code.
1098     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1099    
1100 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1101     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1102 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1103     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1104     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1105 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1106     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1107 root 1.9
1108 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1109     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1110     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1111    
1112 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1113 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1114 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1115     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1116     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1117     coroutine-specific vars.
1118 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1119 root 1.4
1120 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1121 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1122     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1123     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1124 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1125 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1126     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1127 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1128    
1129 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1130     - implemented "async" attribute.
1131     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1132     - added Coro::Channel.
1133     - more testcases, still no docs.
1134    
1135 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1136     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1137