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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 root 1.560 executing a guard block), instead of crashing or deadlocking.
9     - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
10     cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
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 1.561 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
14     allocating context stack entries.
15 root 1.556 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
16     now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
17 root 1.554 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
18 root 1.555 callbacks (best effort).
19 root 1.559 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
20     functions to have destructors.
21 root 1.554
22 root 1.553 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
23     - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
24     work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
25     my attention by Max Maischein).
26     - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
27    
28 root 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
29     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
30    
31 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
32 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
33 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
34     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
35 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
36     saves quite a lot of memory.
37 root 1.548
38 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
39 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
40     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
41     method call.
42     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
43     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
44 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
45 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
46 root 1.545
47 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
48 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
49     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
50 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
51     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
52 root 1.543
53 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
54     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
55     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
56     out of the box.
57 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
58     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
59 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
60    
61 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
62 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
63     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
64     Waldorf).
65 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
66    
67 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
68     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
69 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
70 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
71     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
72     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
73     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
74     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
75 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
76     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
77     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
78 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
79 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
80 root 1.532
81     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
82 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
83     together.
84     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
85 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
86     the most common source of confusion.
87     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
88     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
89     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
90 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
91    
92 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
93 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
94 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
95 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
96 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
97 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
98     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
99     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
100     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
101 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
102     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
103 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
104 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
105     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
106 root 1.522
107 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
108 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
109     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
110 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
111 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
112     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
113     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
114 root 1.519
115 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
116 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
117 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
118 root 1.517
119 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
120     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
121     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
122 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
123     not on demand.
124 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
125 root 1.515
126 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
127 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
128     when no threads had been readied between detecting
129     the event loop and actually running it.
130 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
131     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
132 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
133     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
134 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
135     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
136 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
137 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
138 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
139     for hardcode select overriding.
140 root 1.509
141 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
142 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
143     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
144 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
145 root 1.506
146 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
147 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
148     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
149 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
150 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
151     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
152 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
153 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
154     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
155 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
156     (Coro::State::enable_times).
157 root 1.500
158 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
159 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
160     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
161     idle_upto).
162     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
163     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
164 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
165     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
166     had already been freed.
167 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
168 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
169 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
170 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
171 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
172 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
173     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
174     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
175     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
176 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
177     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
178     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
179 root 1.492
180 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
181 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
182 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
183 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
184     should support a prepare callback.
185 root 1.488
186 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
187 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
188 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
189     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
190 root 1.485
191 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
192 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
193 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
194     spurious warnings.
195 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
196     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
197     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
198 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
199     - deprecate Coro::guard.
200 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
201     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
202 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
203     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
204     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
205     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
206 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
207     to avoid needless segfaults.
208 root 1.476
209 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
210 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
211     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
212     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
213 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
214 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
215 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
216 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
217     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
218     destruction.
219 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
220 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
221 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
222     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
223     pthreads fare better?).
224     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
225 root 1.466
226 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
227 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
228     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
229     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
230    
231 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
232     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
233 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
234 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
235     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
236 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
237     LWP data transfers.
238 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
239     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
240     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
241 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
242 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
243     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
244 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
245 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
246 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
247     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
248     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
249     callbacks.
250     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
251     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
252     through the idle threads now.
253 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
254 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
255 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
256 root 1.453
257 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
258 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
259     stability issues.
260 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
261 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
262     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
263 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
264 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
265 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
266 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
267     ("Attempt to unreference...").
268 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
269     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
270     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
271 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
272 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
273     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
274 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
275     anymore.
276 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
277     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
278     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
279     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
280 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
281 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
282 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
283     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
284     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
285     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
286     those functions and atcually create new ones.
287     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
288     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
289     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
290     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
291     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
292 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
293     factor of two.
294     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
295     factor of three.
296 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
297     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
298 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
299     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
300     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
301 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
302     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
303 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
304     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
305     making signals reliable for the first time.
306 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
307     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
308 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
309     a normal async is now very small.
310 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
311 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
312 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
313     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
314 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
315 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
316 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
317 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
318 root 1.416
319 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
320     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
321     introduced in 4.801.
322    
323 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
324     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
325     ("Attempt to unreference...").
326 root 1.408
327 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
328 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
329 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
330 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
331     when destroyed.
332 root 1.404
333 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
334 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
335    
336 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
337     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
338     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
339     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
340     (unknown impact).
341 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
342     instead of being ignored.
343 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
344 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
345 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
346 root 1.398
347 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
348 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
349     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
350     also speed it up considerably.
351 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
352 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
353     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
354 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
355     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
356     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
357 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
358     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
359     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
360 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
361 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
362 root 1.391
363 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
364 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
365 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
366 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
367     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
368     aggressive compiler.
369 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
370 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
371    
372 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
373 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
374     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
375 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
376 root 1.386
377 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
378     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
379 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
380    
381 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
382 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
383 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
384 root 1.381
385 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
386 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
387     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
388     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
389 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
390 root 1.378
391 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
392     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
393    
394 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
395 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
396 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
397 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
398 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
399     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
400 root 1.372
401 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
402 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
403     code reference).
404 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
405     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
406     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
407 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
408 root 1.369
409 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
410     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
411     in Coro::Storable.
412 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
413    
414 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
415 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
416     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
417     outdated software). Reported by John S.
418 root 1.363
419 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
420 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
421     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
422     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
423    
424 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
425     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
426     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
427     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
428    
429 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
430     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
431     - require EV 3.3+.
432    
433 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
434     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
435     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
436     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
437     stuff seems just too broken.
438     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
439    
440 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
441     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
442     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
443    
444     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
445 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
446     there being runnable coroutines.
447 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
448     warnings for some other modules.
449 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
450 root 1.354
451 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
452 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
453     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
454 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
455 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
456     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
457     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
458     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
459 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
460     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
461     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
462 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
463     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
464 root 1.350
465 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
466 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
467 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
468     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
469 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
470     scheduling.
471 root 1.347
472 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
473 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
474     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
475 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
476     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
477 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
478 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
479     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
480 root 1.341
481 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
482 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
483 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
484     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
485     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
486 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
487     actual impact unknown.
488 root 1.336
489 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
490     - make it compile again on 5.8.
491    
492 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
493     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
494    
495 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
496     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
497     were compiled on 5.8 only.
498    
499 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
500 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
501     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
502     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
503 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
504 root 1.331
505 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
506 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
507     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
508     leading to crashes and worse.
509 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
510 root 1.329
511 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
512     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
513     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
514    
515 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
516 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
517     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
518 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
519     (also add testcase).
520 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
521     apparently having loads of fun with that).
522 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
523 root 1.322
524 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
525 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
526 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
527 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
528     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
529     Andreas König.
530 root 1.319
531 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
532 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
533     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
534 root 1.316
535 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
536 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
537     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
538    
539 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
540 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
541 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
542     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
543 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
544 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
545 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
546 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
547 root 1.308
548 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
549 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
550    
551 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
552     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
553    
554 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
555 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
556 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
557 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
558 root 1.301
559 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
560     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
561    
562 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
563     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
564     when the stack changed.
565 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
566     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
567     if available.
568 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
569 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
570 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
571 root 1.295
572 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
573 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
574     and Coro::Handle.
575    
576 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
577 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
578 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
579 root 1.290
580 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
581 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
582 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
583 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
584     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
585     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
586 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
587 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
588     directly supported by Coro.
589     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
590     stuff in Coro::Util.
591 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
592 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
593 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
594 root 1.282
595 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
596 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
597 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
598     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
599 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
600     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
601     This also catches recursive invocations.
602 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
603 root 1.277
604 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
605     - port to threaded perls.
606    
607 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
608 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
609     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
610 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
611     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
612 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
613     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
614     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
615     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
616     speeds up context switching a bit.
617 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
618 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
619 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
620     resulting in races between coroutines.
621     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
622 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
623     an unrelated coroutine.
624 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
625     more detail in Coro::State.
626 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
627     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
628 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
629     invalidating pointers.
630 root 1.264
631 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
632 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
633     - minor code cleanups.
634    
635 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
636 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
637 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
638     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
639     or use tracing).
640     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
641 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
642     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
643 root 1.258
644 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
645 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
646     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
647 root 1.255
648 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
649 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
650 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
651     debugging, tracing and much more.
652 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
653     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
654     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
655     flags.
656 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
657 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
658 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
659     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
660 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
661 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
662 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
663 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
664 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
665     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
666     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
667 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
668 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
669 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
670 root 1.232
671 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
672 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
673    
674 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
675     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
676 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
677 root 1.227
678 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
679 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
680     pst's sometimes.
681 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
682 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
683     be threadsafe...).
684     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
685     but stateful semantics.
686 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
687     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
688 root 1.223
689     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
690 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
691 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
692 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
693     (EXPERIMENTAL).
694 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
695     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
696     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
697     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
698 root 1.217
699 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
700 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
701     it by default.
702     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
703     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
704     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
705 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
706 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
707 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
708     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
709     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
710     performance.
711 root 1.211
712 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
713 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
714     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
715    
716 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
717     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
718     them without asking.
719    
720 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
721 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
722     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
723 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
724     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
725 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
726     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
727 root 1.204
728 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
729 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
730     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
731 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
732     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
733     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
734     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
735     obsolete platforms.
736 root 1.202
737 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
738 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
739     but was rather flaky in practise.
740 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
741     it was reused.
742 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
743     in cede_notself.
744 root 1.197
745 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
746 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
747 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
748     documented and - hopefully - improved.
749 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
750 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
751 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
752     that could errronously trigger.
753 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
754 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
755     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
756 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
757 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
758 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
759     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
760     and 128k coros with async_pool).
761 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
762 root 1.184
763 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
764 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
765 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
766 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
767     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
768     their coro replacements.
769 root 1.179
770 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
771     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
772     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
773     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
774     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
775     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
776     - save/restore tainted status.
777     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
778    
779 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
780     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
781 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
782 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
783 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
784 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
785 root 1.169
786 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
787     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
788    
789 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
790 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
791     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
792 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
793     pool (size currently hardcoded).
794 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
795 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
796 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
797 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
798 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
799     check for changed watchers.
800 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
801     per event.
802 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
803 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
804 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
805 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
806     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
807 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
808     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
809 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
810 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
811 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
812 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
813     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
814 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
815 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
816 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
817 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
818     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
819     if somebody asks for it :)
820 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
821     spuriously without the event having happened.
822 root 1.146
823 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
824 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
825     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
826 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
827     make LWP non-blocking.
828     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
829 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
830 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
831     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
832 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
833     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
834 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
835     by LWP(!!).
836     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
837 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
838     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
839     did already.
840 root 1.135
841 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
842     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
843     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
844 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
845     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
846     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
847 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
848 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
849 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
850 root 1.130
851 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
852 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
853    
854 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
855    
856 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
857 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
858     mark & sweep gc run.
859 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
860 root 1.125
861 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
862 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
863 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
864    
865 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
866 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
867 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
868 root 1.117 wrong package.
869 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
870     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
871 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
872     normally uses.
873 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
874 root 1.117
875 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
876     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
877    
878 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
879 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
880 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
881     - strict'ify some modules.
882 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
883 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
884     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
885 root 1.112
886 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
887     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
888     when 'l'inux method was used.
889    
890 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
891     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
892    
893 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
894 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
895 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
896     Coro::State::flush method.
897 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
898 root 1.106
899 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
900 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
901 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
902 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
903 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
904 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
905 root 1.100
906 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
907     - change of contact address.
908    
909 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
910 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
911 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
912 root 1.97
913 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
914 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
915 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
916     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
917 root 1.95
918 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
919     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
920    
921 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
922 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
923 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
924     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
925     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
926     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
927     fixable).
928 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
929 pcg 1.91
930 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
931 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
932     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
933 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
934 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
935     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
936     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
937     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
938 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
939 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
940 pcg 1.86
941 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
942 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
943     memory leaks.
944     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
945 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
946     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
947 pcg 1.84
948 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
949     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
950 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
951    
952 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
953     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
954     of new features.
955 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
956     Highly correct stuff, that is...
957 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
958     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
959 root 1.80
960 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
961 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
962 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
963 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
964     so preselect it.
965 root 1.76
966 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
967     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
968     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
969 root 1.74
970 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
971 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
972     - new module Coro::Select.
973     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
974     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
975 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
976 root 1.72
977 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
978     - made lazy context switching the default.
979     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
980     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
981     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
982     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
983    
984 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
985 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
986 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
987     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
988     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
989     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
990     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
991 root 1.69
992 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
993     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
994     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
995     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
996    
997 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
998 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
999     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
1000     without Event, which freezes).
1001 root 1.65
1002 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
1003 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
1004    
1005 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
1006 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
1007 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1008     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1009     new ones.
1010     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1011 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1012 root 1.60
1013 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1014 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1015     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1016     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1017    
1018 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1019 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1020     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1021     error.
1022 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1023 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1024     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1025 root 1.54
1026 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1027 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1028 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1029     in various modules.
1030     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1031 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1032 root 1.48
1033 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1034 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1035     inside Coro::Handle.
1036 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1037     speed reasons.
1038     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1039     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1040     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1041 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1042 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1043     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1044     under some circumstances.
1045     - other bugfixes.
1046 root 1.43
1047 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1048 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1049     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1050     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1051     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1052     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1053 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1054     syntax.
1055 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1056 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1057 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1058 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1059 root 1.36
1060 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1061 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1062 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1063     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1064 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1065 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1066 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1067     "Callback called exit" messages).
1068 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1069     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1070 root 1.31
1071     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1072 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1073 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1074 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1075 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1076 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1077 root 1.28
1078     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1079 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1080     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1081     - new module Coro::Socket.
1082    
1083 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1084 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1085 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1086     for yield.
1087 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1088 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1089 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1090     perl-5.6.
1091 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1092     - the idle process is now overriden
1093     by default in Coro::Event.
1094 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1095 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1096 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1097     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1098 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1099     non-blocking i/o.
1100 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1101 root 1.16
1102 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1103 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1104 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1105     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1106     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1107 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1108 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1109 root 1.13
1110 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1111     - release candidate 1 ;)
1112     - slightly nicer code.
1113     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1114    
1115 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1116     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1117 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1118     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1119     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1120 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1121     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1122 root 1.9
1123 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1124     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1125     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1126    
1127 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1128 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1129 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1130     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1131     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1132     coroutine-specific vars.
1133 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1134 root 1.4
1135 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1136 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1137     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1138     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1139 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1140 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1141     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1142 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1143    
1144 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1145     - implemented "async" attribute.
1146     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1147     - added Coro::Channel.
1148     - more testcases, still no docs.
1149    
1150 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1151     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1152