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