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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 1.554 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
8     callbacks (bets effort).
9    
10 root 1.553 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
11     - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
12     work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
13     my attention by Max Maischein).
14     - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
15    
16 root 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
17     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
18    
19 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
20 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
21 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
22     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
23 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
24     saves quite a lot of memory.
25 root 1.548
26 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
27 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
28     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
29     method call.
30     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
31     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
32 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
33 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
34 root 1.545
35 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
36 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
37     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
38 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
39     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
40 root 1.543
41 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
42     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
43     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
44     out of the box.
45 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
46     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
47 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
48    
49 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
50 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
51     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
52     Waldorf).
53 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
54    
55 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
56     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
57 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
58 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
59     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
60     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
61     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
62     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
63 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
64     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
65     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
66 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
67 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
68 root 1.532
69     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
70 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
71     together.
72     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
73 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
74     the most common source of confusion.
75     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
76     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
77     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
78 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
79    
80 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
81 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
82 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
83 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
84 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
85 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
86     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
87     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
88     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
89 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
90     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
91 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
92 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
93     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
94 root 1.522
95 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
96 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
97     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
98 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
99 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
100     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
101     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
102 root 1.519
103 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
104 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
105 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
106 root 1.517
107 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
108     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
109     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
110 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
111     not on demand.
112 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
113 root 1.515
114 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
115 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
116     when no threads had been readied between detecting
117     the event loop and actually running it.
118 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
119     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
120 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
121     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
122 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
123     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
124 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
125 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
126 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
127     for hardcode select overriding.
128 root 1.509
129 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
130 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
131     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
132 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
133 root 1.506
134 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
135 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
136     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
137 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
138 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
139     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
140 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
141 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
142     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
143 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
144     (Coro::State::enable_times).
145 root 1.500
146 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
147 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
148     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
149     idle_upto).
150     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
151     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
152 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
153     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
154     had already been freed.
155 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
156 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
157 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
158 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
159 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
160 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
161     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
162     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
163     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
164 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
165     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
166     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
167 root 1.492
168 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
169 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
170 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
171 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
172     should support a prepare callback.
173 root 1.488
174 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
175 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
176 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
177     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
178 root 1.485
179 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
180 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
181 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
182     spurious warnings.
183 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
184     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
185     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
186 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
187     - deprecate Coro::guard.
188 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
189     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
190 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
191     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
192     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
193     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
194 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
195     to avoid needless segfaults.
196 root 1.476
197 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
198 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
199     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
200     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
201 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
202 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
203 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
204 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
205     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
206     destruction.
207 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
208 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
209 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
210     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
211     pthreads fare better?).
212     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
213 root 1.466
214 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
215 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
216     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
217     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
218    
219 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
220     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
221 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
222 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
223     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
224 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
225     LWP data transfers.
226 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
227     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
228     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
229 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
230 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
231     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
232 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
233 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
234 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
235     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
236     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
237     callbacks.
238     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
239     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
240     through the idle threads now.
241 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
242 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
243 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
244 root 1.453
245 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
246 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
247     stability issues.
248 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
249 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
250     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
251 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
252 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
253 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
254 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
255     ("Attempt to unreference...").
256 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
257     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
258     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
259 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
260 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
261     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
262 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
263     anymore.
264 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
265     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
266     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
267     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
268 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
269 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
270 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
271     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
272     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
273     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
274     those functions and atcually create new ones.
275     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
276     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
277     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
278     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
279     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
280 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
281     factor of two.
282     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
283     factor of three.
284 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
285     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
286 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
287     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
288     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
289 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
290     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
291 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
292     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
293     making signals reliable for the first time.
294 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
295     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
296 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
297     a normal async is now very small.
298 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
299 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
300 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
301     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
302 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
303 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
304 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
305 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
306 root 1.416
307 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
308     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
309     introduced in 4.801.
310    
311 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
312     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
313     ("Attempt to unreference...").
314 root 1.408
315 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
316 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
317 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
318 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
319     when destroyed.
320 root 1.404
321 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
322 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
323    
324 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
325     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
326     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
327     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
328     (unknown impact).
329 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
330     instead of being ignored.
331 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
332 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
333 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
334 root 1.398
335 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
336 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
337     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
338     also speed it up considerably.
339 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
340 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
341     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
342 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
343     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
344     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
345 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
346     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
347     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
348 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
349 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
350 root 1.391
351 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
352 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
353 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
354 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
355     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
356     aggressive compiler.
357 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
358 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
359    
360 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
361 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
362     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
363 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
364 root 1.386
365 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
366     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
367 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
368    
369 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
370 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
371 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
372 root 1.381
373 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
374 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
375     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
376     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
377 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
378 root 1.378
379 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
380     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
381    
382 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
383 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
384 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
385 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
386 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
387     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
388 root 1.372
389 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
390 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
391     code reference).
392 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
393     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
394     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
395 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
396 root 1.369
397 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
398     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
399     in Coro::Storable.
400 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
401    
402 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
403 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
404     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
405     outdated software). Reported by John S.
406 root 1.363
407 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
408 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
409     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
410     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
411    
412 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
413     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
414     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
415     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
416    
417 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
418     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
419     - require EV 3.3+.
420    
421 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
422     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
423     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
424     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
425     stuff seems just too broken.
426     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
427    
428 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
429     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
430     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
431    
432     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
433 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
434     there being runnable coroutines.
435 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
436     warnings for some other modules.
437 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
438 root 1.354
439 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
440 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
441     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
442 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
443 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
444     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
445     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
446     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
447 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
448     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
449     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
450 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
451     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
452 root 1.350
453 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
454 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
455 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
456     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
457 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
458     scheduling.
459 root 1.347
460 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
461 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
462     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
463 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
464     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
465 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
466 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
467     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
468 root 1.341
469 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
470 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
471 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
472     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
473     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
474 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
475     actual impact unknown.
476 root 1.336
477 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
478     - make it compile again on 5.8.
479    
480 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
481     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
482    
483 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
484     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
485     were compiled on 5.8 only.
486    
487 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
488 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
489     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
490     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
491 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
492 root 1.331
493 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
494 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
495     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
496     leading to crashes and worse.
497 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
498 root 1.329
499 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
500     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
501     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
502    
503 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
504 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
505     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
506 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
507     (also add testcase).
508 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
509     apparently having loads of fun with that).
510 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
511 root 1.322
512 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
513 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
514 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
515 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
516     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
517     Andreas König.
518 root 1.319
519 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
520 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
521     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
522 root 1.316
523 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
524 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
525     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
526    
527 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
528 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
529 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
530     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
531 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
532 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
533 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
534 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
535 root 1.308
536 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
537 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
538    
539 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
540     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
541    
542 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
543 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
544 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
545 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
546 root 1.301
547 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
548     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
549    
550 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
551     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
552     when the stack changed.
553 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
554     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
555     if available.
556 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
557 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
558 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
559 root 1.295
560 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
561 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
562     and Coro::Handle.
563    
564 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
565 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
566 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
567 root 1.290
568 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
569 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
570 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
571 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
572     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
573     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
574 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
575 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
576     directly supported by Coro.
577     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
578     stuff in Coro::Util.
579 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
580 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
581 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
582 root 1.282
583 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
584 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
585 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
586     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
587 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
588     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
589     This also catches recursive invocations.
590 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
591 root 1.277
592 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
593     - port to threaded perls.
594    
595 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
596 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
597     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
598 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
599     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
600 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
601     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
602     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
603     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
604     speeds up context switching a bit.
605 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
606 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
607 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
608     resulting in races between coroutines.
609     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
610 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
611     an unrelated coroutine.
612 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
613     more detail in Coro::State.
614 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
615     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
616 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
617     invalidating pointers.
618 root 1.264
619 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
620 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
621     - minor code cleanups.
622    
623 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
624 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
625 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
626     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
627     or use tracing).
628     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
629 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
630     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
631 root 1.258
632 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
633 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
634     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
635 root 1.255
636 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
637 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
638 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
639     debugging, tracing and much more.
640 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
641     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
642     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
643     flags.
644 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
645 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
646 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
647     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
648 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
649 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
650 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
651 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
652 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
653     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
654     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
655 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
656 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
657 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
658 root 1.232
659 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
660 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
661    
662 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
663     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
664 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
665 root 1.227
666 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
667 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
668     pst's sometimes.
669 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
670 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
671     be threadsafe...).
672     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
673     but stateful semantics.
674 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
675     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
676 root 1.223
677     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
678 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
679 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
680 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
681     (EXPERIMENTAL).
682 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
683     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
684     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
685     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
686 root 1.217
687 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
688 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
689     it by default.
690     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
691     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
692     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
693 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
694 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
695 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
696     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
697     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
698     performance.
699 root 1.211
700 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
701 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
702     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
703    
704 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
705     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
706     them without asking.
707    
708 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
709 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
710     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
711 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
712     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
713 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
714     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
715 root 1.204
716 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
717 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
718     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
719 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
720     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
721     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
722     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
723     obsolete platforms.
724 root 1.202
725 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
726 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
727     but was rather flaky in practise.
728 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
729     it was reused.
730 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
731     in cede_notself.
732 root 1.197
733 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
734 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
735 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
736     documented and - hopefully - improved.
737 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
738 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
739 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
740     that could errronously trigger.
741 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
742 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
743     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
744 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
745 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
746 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
747     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
748     and 128k coros with async_pool).
749 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
750 root 1.184
751 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
752 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
753 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
754 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
755     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
756     their coro replacements.
757 root 1.179
758 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
759     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
760     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
761     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
762     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
763     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
764     - save/restore tainted status.
765     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
766    
767 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
768     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
769 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
770 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
771 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
772 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
773 root 1.169
774 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
775     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
776    
777 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
778 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
779     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
780 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
781     pool (size currently hardcoded).
782 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
783 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
784 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
785 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
786 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
787     check for changed watchers.
788 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
789     per event.
790 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
791 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
792 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
793 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
794     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
795 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
796     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
797 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
798 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
799 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
800 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
801     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
802 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
803 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
804 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
805 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
806     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
807     if somebody asks for it :)
808 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
809     spuriously without the event having happened.
810 root 1.146
811 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
812 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
813     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
814 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
815     make LWP non-blocking.
816     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
817 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
818 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
819     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
820 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
821     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
822 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
823     by LWP(!!).
824     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
825 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
826     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
827     did already.
828 root 1.135
829 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
830     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
831     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
832 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
833     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
834     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
835 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
836 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
837 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
838 root 1.130
839 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
840 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
841    
842 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
843    
844 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
845 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
846     mark & sweep gc run.
847 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
848 root 1.125
849 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
850 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
851 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
852    
853 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
854 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
855 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
856 root 1.117 wrong package.
857 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
858     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
859 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
860     normally uses.
861 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
862 root 1.117
863 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
864     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
865    
866 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
867 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
868 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
869     - strict'ify some modules.
870 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
871 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
872     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
873 root 1.112
874 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
875     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
876     when 'l'inux method was used.
877    
878 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
879     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
880    
881 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
882 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
883 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
884     Coro::State::flush method.
885 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
886 root 1.106
887 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
888 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
889 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
890 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
891 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
892 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
893 root 1.100
894 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
895     - change of contact address.
896    
897 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
898 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
899 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
900 root 1.97
901 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
902 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
903 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
904     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
905 root 1.95
906 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
907     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
908    
909 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
910 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
911 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
912     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
913     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
914     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
915     fixable).
916 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
917 pcg 1.91
918 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
919 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
920     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
921 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
922 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
923     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
924     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
925     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
926 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
927 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
928 pcg 1.86
929 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
930 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
931     memory leaks.
932     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
933 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
934     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
935 pcg 1.84
936 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
937     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
938 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
939    
940 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
941     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
942     of new features.
943 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
944     Highly correct stuff, that is...
945 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
946     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
947 root 1.80
948 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
949 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
950 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
951 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
952     so preselect it.
953 root 1.76
954 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
955     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
956     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
957 root 1.74
958 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
959 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
960     - new module Coro::Select.
961     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
962     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
963 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
964 root 1.72
965 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
966     - made lazy context switching the default.
967     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
968     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
969     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
970     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
971    
972 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
973 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
974 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
975     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
976     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
977     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
978     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
979 root 1.69
980 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
981     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
982     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
983     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
984    
985 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
986 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
987     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
988     without Event, which freezes).
989 root 1.65
990 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
991 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
992    
993 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
994 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
995 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
996     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
997     new ones.
998     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
999 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1000 root 1.60
1001 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1002 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1003     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1004     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1005    
1006 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1007 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1008     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1009     error.
1010 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1011 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1012     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1013 root 1.54
1014 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1015 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1016 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1017     in various modules.
1018     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1019 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1020 root 1.48
1021 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1022 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1023     inside Coro::Handle.
1024 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1025     speed reasons.
1026     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1027     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1028     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1029 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1030 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1031     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1032     under some circumstances.
1033     - other bugfixes.
1034 root 1.43
1035 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1036 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1037     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1038     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1039     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1040     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1041 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1042     syntax.
1043 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1044 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1045 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1046 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1047 root 1.36
1048 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1049 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1050 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1051     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1052 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1053 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1054 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1055     "Callback called exit" messages).
1056 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1057     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1058 root 1.31
1059     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1060 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1061 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1062 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1063 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1064 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1065 root 1.28
1066     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1067 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1068     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1069     - new module Coro::Socket.
1070    
1071 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1072 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1073 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1074     for yield.
1075 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1076 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1077 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1078     perl-5.6.
1079 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1080     - the idle process is now overriden
1081     by default in Coro::Event.
1082 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1083 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1084 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1085     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1086 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1087     non-blocking i/o.
1088 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1089 root 1.16
1090 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1091 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1092 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1093     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1094     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1095 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1096 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1097 root 1.13
1098 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1099     - release candidate 1 ;)
1100     - slightly nicer code.
1101     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1102    
1103 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1104     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1105 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1106     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1107     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1108 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1109     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1110 root 1.9
1111 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1112     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1113     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1114    
1115 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1116 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1117 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1118     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1119     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1120     coroutine-specific vars.
1121 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1122 root 1.4
1123 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1124 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1125     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1126     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1127 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1128 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1129     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1130 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1131    
1132 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1133     - implemented "async" attribute.
1134     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1135     - added Coro::Channel.
1136     - more testcases, still no docs.
1137    
1138 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1139     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1140