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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 root 1.555 TODO: cancel calling another coro that cancels ourselves => crash (CF_DELAYCANCEL?) -> canceltest
7 root 1.534
8 root 1.555 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
9     be able to implement mutual cancellation.
10 root 1.556 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
11     now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
12 root 1.554 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
13 root 1.555 callbacks (best effort).
14 root 1.554
15 root 1.553 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
16     - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
17     work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
18     my attention by Max Maischein).
19     - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
20    
21 root 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
22     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
23    
24 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
25 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
26 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
27     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
28 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
29     saves quite a lot of memory.
30 root 1.548
31 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
32 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
33     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
34     method call.
35     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
36     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
37 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
38 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
39 root 1.545
40 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
41 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
42     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
43 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
44     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
45 root 1.543
46 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
47     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
48     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
49     out of the box.
50 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
51     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
52 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
53    
54 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
55 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
56     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
57     Waldorf).
58 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
59    
60 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
61     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
62 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
63 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
64     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
65     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
66     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
67     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
68 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
69     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
70     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
71 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
72 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
73 root 1.532
74     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
75 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
76     together.
77     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
78 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
79     the most common source of confusion.
80     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
81     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
82     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
83 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
84    
85 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
86 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
87 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
88 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
89 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
90 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
91     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
92     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
93     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
94 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
95     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
96 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
97 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
98     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
99 root 1.522
100 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
101 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
102     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
103 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
104 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
105     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
106     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
107 root 1.519
108 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
109 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
110 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
111 root 1.517
112 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
113     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
114     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
115 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
116     not on demand.
117 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
118 root 1.515
119 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
120 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
121     when no threads had been readied between detecting
122     the event loop and actually running it.
123 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
124     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
125 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
126     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
127 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
128     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
129 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
130 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
131 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
132     for hardcode select overriding.
133 root 1.509
134 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
135 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
136     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
137 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
138 root 1.506
139 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
140 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
141     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
142 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
143 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
144     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
145 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
146 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
147     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
148 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
149     (Coro::State::enable_times).
150 root 1.500
151 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
152 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
153     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
154     idle_upto).
155     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
156     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
157 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
158     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
159     had already been freed.
160 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
161 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
162 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
163 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
164 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
165 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
166     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
167     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
168     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
169 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
170     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
171     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
172 root 1.492
173 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
174 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
175 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
176 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
177     should support a prepare callback.
178 root 1.488
179 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
180 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
181 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
182     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
183 root 1.485
184 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
185 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
186 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
187     spurious warnings.
188 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
189     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
190     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
191 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
192     - deprecate Coro::guard.
193 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
194     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
195 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
196     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
197     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
198     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
199 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
200     to avoid needless segfaults.
201 root 1.476
202 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
203 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
204     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
205     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
206 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
207 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
208 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
209 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
210     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
211     destruction.
212 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
213 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
214 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
215     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
216     pthreads fare better?).
217     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
218 root 1.466
219 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
220 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
221     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
222     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
223    
224 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
225     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
226 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
227 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
228     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
229 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
230     LWP data transfers.
231 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
232     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
233     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
234 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
235 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
236     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
237 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
238 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
239 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
240     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
241     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
242     callbacks.
243     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
244     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
245     through the idle threads now.
246 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
247 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
248 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
249 root 1.453
250 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
251 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
252     stability issues.
253 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
254 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
255     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
256 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
257 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
258 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
259 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
260     ("Attempt to unreference...").
261 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
262     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
263     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
264 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
265 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
266     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
267 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
268     anymore.
269 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
270     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
271     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
272     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
273 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
274 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
275 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
276     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
277     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
278     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
279     those functions and atcually create new ones.
280     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
281     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
282     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
283     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
284     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
285 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
286     factor of two.
287     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
288     factor of three.
289 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
290     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
291 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
292     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
293     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
294 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
295     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
296 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
297     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
298     making signals reliable for the first time.
299 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
300     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
301 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
302     a normal async is now very small.
303 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
304 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
305 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
306     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
307 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
308 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
309 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
310 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
311 root 1.416
312 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
313     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
314     introduced in 4.801.
315    
316 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
317     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
318     ("Attempt to unreference...").
319 root 1.408
320 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
321 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
322 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
323 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
324     when destroyed.
325 root 1.404
326 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
327 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
328    
329 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
330     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
331     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
332     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
333     (unknown impact).
334 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
335     instead of being ignored.
336 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
337 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
338 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
339 root 1.398
340 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
341 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
342     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
343     also speed it up considerably.
344 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
345 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
346     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
347 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
348     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
349     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
350 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
351     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
352     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
353 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
354 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
355 root 1.391
356 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
357 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
358 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
359 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
360     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
361     aggressive compiler.
362 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
363 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
364    
365 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
366 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
367     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
368 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
369 root 1.386
370 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
371     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
372 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
373    
374 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
375 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
376 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
377 root 1.381
378 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
379 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
380     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
381     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
382 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
383 root 1.378
384 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
385     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
386    
387 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
388 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
389 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
390 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
391 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
392     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
393 root 1.372
394 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
395 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
396     code reference).
397 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
398     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
399     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
400 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
401 root 1.369
402 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
403     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
404     in Coro::Storable.
405 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
406    
407 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
408 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
409     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
410     outdated software). Reported by John S.
411 root 1.363
412 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
413 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
414     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
415     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
416    
417 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
418     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
419     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
420     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
421    
422 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
423     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
424     - require EV 3.3+.
425    
426 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
427     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
428     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
429     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
430     stuff seems just too broken.
431     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
432    
433 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
434     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
435     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
436    
437     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
438 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
439     there being runnable coroutines.
440 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
441     warnings for some other modules.
442 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
443 root 1.354
444 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
445 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
446     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
447 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
448 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
449     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
450     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
451     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
452 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
453     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
454     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
455 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
456     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
457 root 1.350
458 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
459 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
460 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
461     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
462 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
463     scheduling.
464 root 1.347
465 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
466 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
467     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
468 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
469     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
470 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
471 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
472     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
473 root 1.341
474 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
475 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
476 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
477     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
478     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
479 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
480     actual impact unknown.
481 root 1.336
482 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
483     - make it compile again on 5.8.
484    
485 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
486     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
487    
488 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
489     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
490     were compiled on 5.8 only.
491    
492 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
493 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
494     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
495     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
496 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
497 root 1.331
498 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
499 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
500     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
501     leading to crashes and worse.
502 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
503 root 1.329
504 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
505     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
506     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
507    
508 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
509 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
510     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
511 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
512     (also add testcase).
513 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
514     apparently having loads of fun with that).
515 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
516 root 1.322
517 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
518 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
519 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
520 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
521     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
522     Andreas König.
523 root 1.319
524 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
525 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
526     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
527 root 1.316
528 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
529 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
530     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
531    
532 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
533 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
534 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
535     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
536 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
537 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
538 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
539 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
540 root 1.308
541 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
542 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
543    
544 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
545     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
546    
547 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
548 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
549 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
550 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
551 root 1.301
552 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
553     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
554    
555 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
556     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
557     when the stack changed.
558 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
559     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
560     if available.
561 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
562 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
563 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
564 root 1.295
565 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
566 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
567     and Coro::Handle.
568    
569 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
570 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
571 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
572 root 1.290
573 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
574 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
575 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
576 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
577     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
578     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
579 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
580 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
581     directly supported by Coro.
582     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
583     stuff in Coro::Util.
584 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
585 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
586 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
587 root 1.282
588 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
589 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
590 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
591     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
592 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
593     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
594     This also catches recursive invocations.
595 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
596 root 1.277
597 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
598     - port to threaded perls.
599    
600 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
601 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
602     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
603 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
604     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
605 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
606     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
607     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
608     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
609     speeds up context switching a bit.
610 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
611 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
612 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
613     resulting in races between coroutines.
614     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
615 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
616     an unrelated coroutine.
617 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
618     more detail in Coro::State.
619 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
620     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
621 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
622     invalidating pointers.
623 root 1.264
624 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
625 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
626     - minor code cleanups.
627    
628 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
629 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
630 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
631     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
632     or use tracing).
633     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
634 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
635     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
636 root 1.258
637 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
638 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
639     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
640 root 1.255
641 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
642 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
643 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
644     debugging, tracing and much more.
645 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
646     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
647     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
648     flags.
649 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
650 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
651 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
652     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
653 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
654 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
655 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
656 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
657 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
658     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
659     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
660 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
661 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
662 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
663 root 1.232
664 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
665 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
666    
667 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
668     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
669 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
670 root 1.227
671 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
672 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
673     pst's sometimes.
674 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
675 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
676     be threadsafe...).
677     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
678     but stateful semantics.
679 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
680     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
681 root 1.223
682     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
683 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
684 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
685 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
686     (EXPERIMENTAL).
687 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
688     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
689     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
690     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
691 root 1.217
692 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
693 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
694     it by default.
695     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
696     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
697     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
698 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
699 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
700 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
701     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
702     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
703     performance.
704 root 1.211
705 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
706 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
707     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
708    
709 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
710     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
711     them without asking.
712    
713 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
714 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
715     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
716 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
717     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
718 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
719     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
720 root 1.204
721 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
722 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
723     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
724 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
725     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
726     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
727     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
728     obsolete platforms.
729 root 1.202
730 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
731 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
732     but was rather flaky in practise.
733 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
734     it was reused.
735 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
736     in cede_notself.
737 root 1.197
738 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
739 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
740 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
741     documented and - hopefully - improved.
742 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
743 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
744 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
745     that could errronously trigger.
746 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
747 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
748     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
749 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
750 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
751 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
752     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
753     and 128k coros with async_pool).
754 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
755 root 1.184
756 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
757 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
758 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
759 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
760     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
761     their coro replacements.
762 root 1.179
763 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
764     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
765     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
766     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
767     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
768     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
769     - save/restore tainted status.
770     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
771    
772 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
773     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
774 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
775 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
776 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
777 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
778 root 1.169
779 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
780     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
781    
782 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
783 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
784     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
785 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
786     pool (size currently hardcoded).
787 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
788 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
789 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
790 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
791 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
792     check for changed watchers.
793 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
794     per event.
795 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
796 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
797 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
798 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
799     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
800 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
801     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
802 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
803 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
804 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
805 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
806     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
807 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
808 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
809 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
810 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
811     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
812     if somebody asks for it :)
813 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
814     spuriously without the event having happened.
815 root 1.146
816 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
817 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
818     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
819 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
820     make LWP non-blocking.
821     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
822 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
823 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
824     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
825 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
826     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
827 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
828     by LWP(!!).
829     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
830 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
831     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
832     did already.
833 root 1.135
834 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
835     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
836     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
837 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
838     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
839     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
840 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
841 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
842 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
843 root 1.130
844 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
845 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
846    
847 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
848    
849 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
850 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
851     mark & sweep gc run.
852 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
853 root 1.125
854 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
855 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
856 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
857    
858 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
859 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
860 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
861 root 1.117 wrong package.
862 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
863     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
864 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
865     normally uses.
866 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
867 root 1.117
868 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
869     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
870    
871 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
872 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
873 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
874     - strict'ify some modules.
875 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
876 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
877     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
878 root 1.112
879 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
880     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
881     when 'l'inux method was used.
882    
883 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
884     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
885    
886 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
887 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
888 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
889     Coro::State::flush method.
890 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
891 root 1.106
892 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
893 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
894 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
895 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
896 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
897 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
898 root 1.100
899 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
900     - change of contact address.
901    
902 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
903 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
904 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
905 root 1.97
906 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
907 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
908 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
909     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
910 root 1.95
911 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
912     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
913    
914 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
915 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
916 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
917     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
918     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
919     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
920     fixable).
921 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
922 pcg 1.91
923 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
924 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
925     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
926 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
927 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
928     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
929     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
930     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
931 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
932 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
933 pcg 1.86
934 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
935 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
936     memory leaks.
937     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
938 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
939     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
940 pcg 1.84
941 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
942     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
943 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
944    
945 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
946     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
947     of new features.
948 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
949     Highly correct stuff, that is...
950 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
951     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
952 root 1.80
953 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
954 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
955 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
956 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
957     so preselect it.
958 root 1.76
959 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
960     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
961     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
962 root 1.74
963 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
964 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
965     - new module Coro::Select.
966     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
967     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
968 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
969 root 1.72
970 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
971     - made lazy context switching the default.
972     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
973     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
974     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
975     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
976    
977 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
978 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
979 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
980     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
981     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
982     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
983     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
984 root 1.69
985 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
986     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
987     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
988     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
989    
990 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
991 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
992     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
993     without Event, which freezes).
994 root 1.65
995 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
996 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
997    
998 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
999 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
1000 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1001     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1002     new ones.
1003     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1004 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1005 root 1.60
1006 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1007 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1008     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1009     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1010    
1011 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1012 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1013     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1014     error.
1015 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1016 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1017     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1018 root 1.54
1019 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1020 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1021 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1022     in various modules.
1023     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1024 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1025 root 1.48
1026 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1027 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1028     inside Coro::Handle.
1029 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1030     speed reasons.
1031     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1032     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1033     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1034 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1035 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1036     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1037     under some circumstances.
1038     - other bugfixes.
1039 root 1.43
1040 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1041 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1042     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1043     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1044     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1045     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1046 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1047     syntax.
1048 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1049 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1050 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1051 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1052 root 1.36
1053 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1054 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1055 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1056     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1057 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1058 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1059 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1060     "Callback called exit" messages).
1061 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1062     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1063 root 1.31
1064     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1065 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1066 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1067 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1068 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1069 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1070 root 1.28
1071     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1072 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1073     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1074     - new module Coro::Socket.
1075    
1076 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1077 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1078 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1079     for yield.
1080 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1081 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1082 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1083     perl-5.6.
1084 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1085     - the idle process is now overriden
1086     by default in Coro::Event.
1087 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1088 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1089 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1090     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1091 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1092     non-blocking i/o.
1093 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1094 root 1.16
1095 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1096 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1097 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1098     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1099     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1100 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1101 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1102 root 1.13
1103 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1104     - release candidate 1 ;)
1105     - slightly nicer code.
1106     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1107    
1108 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1109     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1110 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1111     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1112     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1113 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1114     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1115 root 1.9
1116 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1117     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1118     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1119    
1120 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1121 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1122 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1123     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1124     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1125     coroutine-specific vars.
1126 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1127 root 1.4
1128 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1129 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1130     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1131     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1132 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1133 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1134     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1135 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1136    
1137 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1138     - implemented "async" attribute.
1139     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1140     - added Coro::Channel.
1141     - more testcases, still no docs.
1142    
1143 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1144     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1145