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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 1.559 - croak when a coro being cancelled tries to block (e.g. while
8     executing a guard block).
9     - implement a Coro::State->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
10     cancels in a "safer" way.
11 root 1.555 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
12     be able to implement mutual cancellation.
13 root 1.556 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
14     now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
15 root 1.554 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
16 root 1.555 callbacks (best effort).
17 root 1.559 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
18     functions to have destructors.
19 root 1.554
20 root 1.553 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
21     - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
22     work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
23     my attention by Max Maischein).
24     - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
25    
26 root 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
27     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
28    
29 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
30 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
31 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
32     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
33 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
34     saves quite a lot of memory.
35 root 1.548
36 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
37 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
38     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
39     method call.
40     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
41     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
42 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
43 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
44 root 1.545
45 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
46 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
47     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
48 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
49     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
50 root 1.543
51 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
52     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
53     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
54     out of the box.
55 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
56     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
57 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
58    
59 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
60 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
61     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
62     Waldorf).
63 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
64    
65 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
66     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
67 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
68 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
69     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
70     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
71     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
72     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
73 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
74     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
75     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
76 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
77 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
78 root 1.532
79     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
80 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
81     together.
82     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
83 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
84     the most common source of confusion.
85     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
86     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
87     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
88 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
89    
90 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
91 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
92 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
93 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
94 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
95 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
96     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
97     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
98     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
99 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
100     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
101 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
102 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
103     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
104 root 1.522
105 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
106 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
107     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
108 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
109 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
110     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
111     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
112 root 1.519
113 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
114 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
115 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
116 root 1.517
117 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
118     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
119     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
120 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
121     not on demand.
122 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
123 root 1.515
124 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
125 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
126     when no threads had been readied between detecting
127     the event loop and actually running it.
128 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
129     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
130 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
131     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
132 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
133     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
134 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
135 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
136 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
137     for hardcode select overriding.
138 root 1.509
139 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
140 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
141     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
142 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
143 root 1.506
144 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
145 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
146     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
147 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
148 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
149     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
150 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
151 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
152     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
153 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
154     (Coro::State::enable_times).
155 root 1.500
156 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
157 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
158     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
159     idle_upto).
160     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
161     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
162 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
163     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
164     had already been freed.
165 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
166 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
167 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
168 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
169 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
170 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
171     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
172     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
173     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
174 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
175     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
176     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
177 root 1.492
178 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
179 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
180 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
181 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
182     should support a prepare callback.
183 root 1.488
184 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
185 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
186 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
187     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
188 root 1.485
189 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
190 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
191 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
192     spurious warnings.
193 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
194     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
195     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
196 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
197     - deprecate Coro::guard.
198 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
199     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
200 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
201     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
202     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
203     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
204 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
205     to avoid needless segfaults.
206 root 1.476
207 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
208 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
209     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
210     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
211 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
212 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
213 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
214 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
215     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
216     destruction.
217 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
218 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
219 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
220     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
221     pthreads fare better?).
222     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
223 root 1.466
224 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
225 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
226     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
227     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
228    
229 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
230     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
231 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
232 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
233     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
234 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
235     LWP data transfers.
236 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
237     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
238     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
239 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
240 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
241     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
242 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
243 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
244 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
245     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
246     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
247     callbacks.
248     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
249     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
250     through the idle threads now.
251 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
252 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
253 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
254 root 1.453
255 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
256 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
257     stability issues.
258 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
259 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
260     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
261 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
262 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
263 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
264 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
265     ("Attempt to unreference...").
266 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
267     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
268     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
269 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
270 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
271     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
272 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
273     anymore.
274 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
275     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
276     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
277     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
278 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
279 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
280 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
281     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
282     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
283     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
284     those functions and atcually create new ones.
285     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
286     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
287     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
288     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
289     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
290 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
291     factor of two.
292     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
293     factor of three.
294 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
295     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
296 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
297     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
298     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
299 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
300     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
301 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
302     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
303     making signals reliable for the first time.
304 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
305     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
306 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
307     a normal async is now very small.
308 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
309 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
310 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
311     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
312 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
313 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
314 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
315 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
316 root 1.416
317 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
318     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
319     introduced in 4.801.
320    
321 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
322     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
323     ("Attempt to unreference...").
324 root 1.408
325 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
326 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
327 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
328 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
329     when destroyed.
330 root 1.404
331 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
332 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
333    
334 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
335     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
336     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
337     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
338     (unknown impact).
339 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
340     instead of being ignored.
341 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
342 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
343 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
344 root 1.398
345 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
346 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
347     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
348     also speed it up considerably.
349 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
350 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
351     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
352 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
353     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
354     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
355 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
356     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
357     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
358 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
359 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
360 root 1.391
361 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
362 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
363 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
364 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
365     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
366     aggressive compiler.
367 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
368 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
369    
370 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
371 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
372     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
373 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
374 root 1.386
375 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
376     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
377 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
378    
379 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
380 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
381 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
382 root 1.381
383 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
384 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
385     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
386     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
387 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
388 root 1.378
389 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
390     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
391    
392 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
393 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
394 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
395 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
396 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
397     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
398 root 1.372
399 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
400 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
401     code reference).
402 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
403     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
404     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
405 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
406 root 1.369
407 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
408     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
409     in Coro::Storable.
410 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
411    
412 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
413 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
414     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
415     outdated software). Reported by John S.
416 root 1.363
417 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
418 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
419     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
420     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
421    
422 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
423     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
424     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
425     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
426    
427 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
428     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
429     - require EV 3.3+.
430    
431 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
432     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
433     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
434     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
435     stuff seems just too broken.
436     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
437    
438 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
439     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
440     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
441    
442     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
443 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
444     there being runnable coroutines.
445 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
446     warnings for some other modules.
447 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
448 root 1.354
449 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
450 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
451     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
452 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
453 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
454     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
455     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
456     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
457 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
458     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
459     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
460 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
461     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
462 root 1.350
463 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
464 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
465 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
466     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
467 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
468     scheduling.
469 root 1.347
470 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
471 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
472     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
473 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
474     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
475 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
476 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
477     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
478 root 1.341
479 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
480 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
481 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
482     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
483     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
484 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
485     actual impact unknown.
486 root 1.336
487 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
488     - make it compile again on 5.8.
489    
490 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
491     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
492    
493 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
494     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
495     were compiled on 5.8 only.
496    
497 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
498 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
499     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
500     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
501 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
502 root 1.331
503 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
504 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
505     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
506     leading to crashes and worse.
507 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
508 root 1.329
509 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
510     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
511     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
512    
513 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
514 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
515     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
516 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
517     (also add testcase).
518 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
519     apparently having loads of fun with that).
520 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
521 root 1.322
522 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
523 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
524 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
525 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
526     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
527     Andreas König.
528 root 1.319
529 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
530 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
531     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
532 root 1.316
533 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
534 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
535     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
536    
537 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
538 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
539 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
540     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
541 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
542 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
543 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
544 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
545 root 1.308
546 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
547 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
548    
549 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
550     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
551    
552 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
553 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
554 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
555 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
556 root 1.301
557 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
558     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
559    
560 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
561     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
562     when the stack changed.
563 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
564     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
565     if available.
566 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
567 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
568 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
569 root 1.295
570 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
571 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
572     and Coro::Handle.
573    
574 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
575 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
576 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
577 root 1.290
578 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
579 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
580 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
581 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
582     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
583     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
584 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
585 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
586     directly supported by Coro.
587     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
588     stuff in Coro::Util.
589 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
590 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
591 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
592 root 1.282
593 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
594 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
595 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
596     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
597 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
598     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
599     This also catches recursive invocations.
600 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
601 root 1.277
602 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
603     - port to threaded perls.
604    
605 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
606 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
607     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
608 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
609     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
610 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
611     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
612     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
613     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
614     speeds up context switching a bit.
615 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
616 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
617 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
618     resulting in races between coroutines.
619     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
620 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
621     an unrelated coroutine.
622 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
623     more detail in Coro::State.
624 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
625     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
626 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
627     invalidating pointers.
628 root 1.264
629 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
630 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
631     - minor code cleanups.
632    
633 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
634 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
635 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
636     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
637     or use tracing).
638     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
639 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
640     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
641 root 1.258
642 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
643 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
644     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
645 root 1.255
646 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
647 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
648 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
649     debugging, tracing and much more.
650 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
651     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
652     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
653     flags.
654 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
655 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
656 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
657     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
658 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
659 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
660 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
661 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
662 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
663     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
664     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
665 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
666 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
667 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
668 root 1.232
669 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
670 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
671    
672 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
673     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
674 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
675 root 1.227
676 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
677 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
678     pst's sometimes.
679 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
680 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
681     be threadsafe...).
682     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
683     but stateful semantics.
684 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
685     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
686 root 1.223
687     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
688 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
689 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
690 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
691     (EXPERIMENTAL).
692 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
693     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
694     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
695     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
696 root 1.217
697 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
698 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
699     it by default.
700     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
701     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
702     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
703 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
704 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
705 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
706     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
707     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
708     performance.
709 root 1.211
710 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
711 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
712     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
713    
714 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
715     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
716     them without asking.
717    
718 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
719 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
720     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
721 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
722     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
723 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
724     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
725 root 1.204
726 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
727 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
728     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
729 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
730     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
731     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
732     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
733     obsolete platforms.
734 root 1.202
735 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
736 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
737     but was rather flaky in practise.
738 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
739     it was reused.
740 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
741     in cede_notself.
742 root 1.197
743 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
744 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
745 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
746     documented and - hopefully - improved.
747 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
748 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
749 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
750     that could errronously trigger.
751 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
752 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
753     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
754 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
755 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
756 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
757     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
758     and 128k coros with async_pool).
759 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
760 root 1.184
761 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
762 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
763 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
764 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
765     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
766     their coro replacements.
767 root 1.179
768 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
769     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
770     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
771     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
772     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
773     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
774     - save/restore tainted status.
775     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
776    
777 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
778     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
779 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
780 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
781 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
782 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
783 root 1.169
784 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
785     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
786    
787 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
788 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
789     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
790 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
791     pool (size currently hardcoded).
792 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
793 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
794 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
795 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
796 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
797     check for changed watchers.
798 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
799     per event.
800 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
801 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
802 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
803 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
804     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
805 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
806     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
807 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
808 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
809 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
810 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
811     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
812 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
813 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
814 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
815 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
816     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
817     if somebody asks for it :)
818 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
819     spuriously without the event having happened.
820 root 1.146
821 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
822 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
823     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
824 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
825     make LWP non-blocking.
826     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
827 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
828 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
829     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
830 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
831     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
832 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
833     by LWP(!!).
834     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
835 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
836     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
837     did already.
838 root 1.135
839 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
840     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
841     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
842 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
843     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
844     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
845 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
846 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
847 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
848 root 1.130
849 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
850 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
851    
852 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
853    
854 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
855 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
856     mark & sweep gc run.
857 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
858 root 1.125
859 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
860 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
861 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
862    
863 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
864 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
865 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
866 root 1.117 wrong package.
867 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
868     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
869 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
870     normally uses.
871 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
872 root 1.117
873 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
874     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
875    
876 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
877 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
878 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
879     - strict'ify some modules.
880 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
881 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
882     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
883 root 1.112
884 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
885     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
886     when 'l'inux method was used.
887    
888 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
889     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
890    
891 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
892 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
893 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
894     Coro::State::flush method.
895 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
896 root 1.106
897 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
898 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
899 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
900 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
901 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
902 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
903 root 1.100
904 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
905     - change of contact address.
906    
907 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
908 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
909 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
910 root 1.97
911 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
912 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
913 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
914     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
915 root 1.95
916 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
917     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
918    
919 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
920 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
921 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
922     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
923     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
924     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
925     fixable).
926 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
927 pcg 1.91
928 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
929 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
930     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
931 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
932 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
933     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
934     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
935     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
936 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
937 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
938 pcg 1.86
939 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
940 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
941     memory leaks.
942     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
943 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
944     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
945 pcg 1.84
946 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
947     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
948 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
949    
950 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
951     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
952     of new features.
953 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
954     Highly correct stuff, that is...
955 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
956     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
957 root 1.80
958 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
959 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
960 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
961 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
962     so preselect it.
963 root 1.76
964 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
965     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
966     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
967 root 1.74
968 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
969 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
970     - new module Coro::Select.
971     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
972     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
973 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
974 root 1.72
975 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
976     - made lazy context switching the default.
977     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
978     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
979     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
980     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
981    
982 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
983 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
984 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
985     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
986     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
987     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
988     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
989 root 1.69
990 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
991     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
992     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
993     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
994    
995 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
996 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
997     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
998     without Event, which freezes).
999 root 1.65
1000 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
1001 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
1002    
1003 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
1004 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
1005 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1006     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1007     new ones.
1008     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1009 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1010 root 1.60
1011 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1012 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1013     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1014     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1015    
1016 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1017 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1018     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1019     error.
1020 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1021 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1022     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1023 root 1.54
1024 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1025 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1026 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1027     in various modules.
1028     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1029 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1030 root 1.48
1031 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1032 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1033     inside Coro::Handle.
1034 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1035     speed reasons.
1036     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1037     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1038     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1039 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1040 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1041     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1042     under some circumstances.
1043     - other bugfixes.
1044 root 1.43
1045 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1046 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1047     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1048     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1049     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1050     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1051 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1052     syntax.
1053 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1054 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1055 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1056 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1057 root 1.36
1058 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1059 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1060 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1061     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1062 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1063 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1064 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1065     "Callback called exit" messages).
1066 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1067     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1068 root 1.31
1069     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1070 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1071 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1072 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1073 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1074 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1075 root 1.28
1076     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1077 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1078     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1079     - new module Coro::Socket.
1080    
1081 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1082 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1083 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1084     for yield.
1085 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1086 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1087 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1088     perl-5.6.
1089 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1090     - the idle process is now overriden
1091     by default in Coro::Event.
1092 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1093 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1094 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1095     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1096 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1097     non-blocking i/o.
1098 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1099 root 1.16
1100 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1101 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1102 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1103     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1104     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1105 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1106 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1107 root 1.13
1108 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1109     - release candidate 1 ;)
1110     - slightly nicer code.
1111     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1112    
1113 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1114     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1115 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1116     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1117     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1118 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1119     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1120 root 1.9
1121 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1122     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1123     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1124    
1125 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1126 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1127 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1128     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1129     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1130     coroutine-specific vars.
1131 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1132 root 1.4
1133 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1134 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1135     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1136     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1137 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1138 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1139     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1140 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1141    
1142 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1143     - implemented "async" attribute.
1144     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1145     - added Coro::Channel.
1146     - more testcases, still no docs.
1147    
1148 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1149     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1150