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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 1.562 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
8     (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
9     deadlocking.
10 root 1.560 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
11     cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
12 root 1.555 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
13     be able to implement mutual cancellation.
14 root 1.561 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
15     allocating context stack entries.
16 root 1.556 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
17     now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
18 root 1.554 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
19 root 1.555 callbacks (best effort).
20 root 1.559 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
21     functions to have destructors.
22 root 1.554
23 root 1.553 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
24     - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
25     work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
26     my attention by Max Maischein).
27     - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
28    
29 root 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
30     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
31    
32 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
33 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
34 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
35     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
36 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
37     saves quite a lot of memory.
38 root 1.548
39 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
40 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
41     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
42     method call.
43     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
44     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
45 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
46 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
47 root 1.545
48 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
49 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
50     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
51 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
52     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
53 root 1.543
54 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
55     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
56     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
57     out of the box.
58 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
59     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
60 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
61    
62 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
63 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
64     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
65     Waldorf).
66 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
67    
68 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
69     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
70 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
71 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
72     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
73     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
74     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
75     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
76 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
77     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
78     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
79 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
80 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
81 root 1.532
82     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
83 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
84     together.
85     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
86 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
87     the most common source of confusion.
88     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
89     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
90     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
91 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
92    
93 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
94 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
95 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
96 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
97 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
98 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
99     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
100     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
101     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
102 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
103     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
104 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
105 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
106     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
107 root 1.522
108 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
109 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
110     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
111 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
112 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
113     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
114     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
115 root 1.519
116 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
117 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
118 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
119 root 1.517
120 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
121     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
122     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
123 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
124     not on demand.
125 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
126 root 1.515
127 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
128 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
129     when no threads had been readied between detecting
130     the event loop and actually running it.
131 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
132     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
133 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
134     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
135 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
136     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
137 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
138 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
139 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
140     for hardcode select overriding.
141 root 1.509
142 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
143 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
144     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
145 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
146 root 1.506
147 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
148 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
149     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
150 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
151 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
152     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
153 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
154 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
155     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
156 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
157     (Coro::State::enable_times).
158 root 1.500
159 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
160 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
161     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
162     idle_upto).
163     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
164     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
165 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
166     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
167     had already been freed.
168 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
169 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
170 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
171 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
172 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
173 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
174     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
175     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
176     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
177 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
178     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
179     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
180 root 1.492
181 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
182 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
183 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
184 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
185     should support a prepare callback.
186 root 1.488
187 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
188 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
189 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
190     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
191 root 1.485
192 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
193 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
194 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
195     spurious warnings.
196 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
197     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
198     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
199 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
200     - deprecate Coro::guard.
201 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
202     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
203 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
204     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
205     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
206     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
207 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
208     to avoid needless segfaults.
209 root 1.476
210 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
211 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
212     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
213     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
214 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
215 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
216 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
217 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
218     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
219     destruction.
220 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
221 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
222 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
223     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
224     pthreads fare better?).
225     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
226 root 1.466
227 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
228 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
229     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
230     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
231    
232 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
233     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
234 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
235 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
236     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
237 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
238     LWP data transfers.
239 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
240     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
241     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
242 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
243 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
244     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
245 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
246 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
247 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
248     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
249     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
250     callbacks.
251     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
252     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
253     through the idle threads now.
254 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
255 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
256 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
257 root 1.453
258 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
259 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
260     stability issues.
261 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
262 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
263     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
264 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
265 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
266 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
267 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
268     ("Attempt to unreference...").
269 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
270     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
271     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
272 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
273 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
274     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
275 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
276     anymore.
277 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
278     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
279     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
280     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
281 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
282 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
283 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
284     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
285     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
286     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
287     those functions and atcually create new ones.
288     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
289     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
290     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
291     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
292     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
293 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
294     factor of two.
295     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
296     factor of three.
297 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
298     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
299 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
300     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
301     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
302 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
303     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
304 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
305     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
306     making signals reliable for the first time.
307 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
308     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
309 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
310     a normal async is now very small.
311 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
312 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
313 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
314     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
315 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
316 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
317 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
318 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
319 root 1.416
320 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
321     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
322     introduced in 4.801.
323    
324 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
325     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
326     ("Attempt to unreference...").
327 root 1.408
328 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
329 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
330 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
331 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
332     when destroyed.
333 root 1.404
334 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
335 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
336    
337 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
338     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
339     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
340     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
341     (unknown impact).
342 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
343     instead of being ignored.
344 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
345 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
346 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
347 root 1.398
348 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
349 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
350     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
351     also speed it up considerably.
352 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
353 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
354     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
355 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
356     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
357     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
358 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
359     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
360     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
361 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
362 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
363 root 1.391
364 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
365 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
366 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
367 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
368     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
369     aggressive compiler.
370 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
371 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
372    
373 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
374 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
375     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
376 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
377 root 1.386
378 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
379     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
380 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
381    
382 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
383 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
384 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
385 root 1.381
386 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
387 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
388     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
389     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
390 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
391 root 1.378
392 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
393     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
394    
395 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
396 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
397 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
398 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
399 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
400     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
401 root 1.372
402 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
403 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
404     code reference).
405 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
406     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
407     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
408 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
409 root 1.369
410 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
411     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
412     in Coro::Storable.
413 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
414    
415 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
416 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
417     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
418     outdated software). Reported by John S.
419 root 1.363
420 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
421 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
422     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
423     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
424    
425 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
426     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
427     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
428     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
429    
430 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
431     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
432     - require EV 3.3+.
433    
434 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
435     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
436     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
437     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
438     stuff seems just too broken.
439     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
440    
441 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
442     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
443     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
444    
445     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
446 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
447     there being runnable coroutines.
448 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
449     warnings for some other modules.
450 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
451 root 1.354
452 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
453 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
454     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
455 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
456 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
457     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
458     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
459     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
460 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
461     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
462     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
463 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
464     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
465 root 1.350
466 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
467 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
468 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
469     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
470 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
471     scheduling.
472 root 1.347
473 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
474 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
475     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
476 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
477     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
478 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
479 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
480     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
481 root 1.341
482 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
483 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
484 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
485     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
486     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
487 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
488     actual impact unknown.
489 root 1.336
490 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
491     - make it compile again on 5.8.
492    
493 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
494     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
495    
496 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
497     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
498     were compiled on 5.8 only.
499    
500 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
501 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
502     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
503     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
504 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
505 root 1.331
506 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
507 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
508     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
509     leading to crashes and worse.
510 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
511 root 1.329
512 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
513     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
514     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
515    
516 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
517 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
518     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
519 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
520     (also add testcase).
521 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
522     apparently having loads of fun with that).
523 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
524 root 1.322
525 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
526 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
527 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
528 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
529     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
530     Andreas König.
531 root 1.319
532 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
533 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
534     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
535 root 1.316
536 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
537 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
538     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
539    
540 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
541 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
542 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
543     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
544 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
545 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
546 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
547 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
548 root 1.308
549 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
550 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
551    
552 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
553     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
554    
555 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
556 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
557 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
558 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
559 root 1.301
560 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
561     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
562    
563 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
564     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
565     when the stack changed.
566 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
567     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
568     if available.
569 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
570 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
571 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
572 root 1.295
573 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
574 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
575     and Coro::Handle.
576    
577 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
578 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
579 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
580 root 1.290
581 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
582 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
583 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
584 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
585     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
586     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
587 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
588 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
589     directly supported by Coro.
590     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
591     stuff in Coro::Util.
592 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
593 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
594 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
595 root 1.282
596 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
597 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
598 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
599     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
600 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
601     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
602     This also catches recursive invocations.
603 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
604 root 1.277
605 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
606     - port to threaded perls.
607    
608 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
609 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
610     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
611 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
612     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
613 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
614     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
615     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
616     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
617     speeds up context switching a bit.
618 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
619 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
620 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
621     resulting in races between coroutines.
622     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
623 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
624     an unrelated coroutine.
625 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
626     more detail in Coro::State.
627 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
628     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
629 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
630     invalidating pointers.
631 root 1.264
632 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
633 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
634     - minor code cleanups.
635    
636 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
637 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
638 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
639     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
640     or use tracing).
641     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
642 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
643     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
644 root 1.258
645 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
646 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
647     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
648 root 1.255
649 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
650 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
651 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
652     debugging, tracing and much more.
653 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
654     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
655     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
656     flags.
657 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
658 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
659 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
660     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
661 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
662 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
663 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
664 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
665 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
666     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
667     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
668 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
669 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
670 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
671 root 1.232
672 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
673 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
674    
675 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
676     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
677 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
678 root 1.227
679 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
680 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
681     pst's sometimes.
682 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
683 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
684     be threadsafe...).
685     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
686     but stateful semantics.
687 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
688     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
689 root 1.223
690     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
691 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
692 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
693 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
694     (EXPERIMENTAL).
695 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
696     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
697     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
698     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
699 root 1.217
700 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
701 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
702     it by default.
703     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
704     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
705     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
706 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
707 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
708 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
709     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
710     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
711     performance.
712 root 1.211
713 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
714 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
715     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
716    
717 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
718     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
719     them without asking.
720    
721 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
722 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
723     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
724 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
725     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
726 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
727     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
728 root 1.204
729 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
730 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
731     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
732 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
733     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
734     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
735     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
736     obsolete platforms.
737 root 1.202
738 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
739 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
740     but was rather flaky in practise.
741 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
742     it was reused.
743 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
744     in cede_notself.
745 root 1.197
746 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
747 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
748 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
749     documented and - hopefully - improved.
750 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
751 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
752 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
753     that could errronously trigger.
754 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
755 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
756     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
757 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
758 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
759 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
760     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
761     and 128k coros with async_pool).
762 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
763 root 1.184
764 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
765 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
766 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
767 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
768     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
769     their coro replacements.
770 root 1.179
771 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
772     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
773     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
774     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
775     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
776     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
777     - save/restore tainted status.
778     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
779    
780 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
781     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
782 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
783 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
784 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
785 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
786 root 1.169
787 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
788     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
789    
790 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
791 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
792     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
793 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
794     pool (size currently hardcoded).
795 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
796 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
797 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
798 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
799 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
800     check for changed watchers.
801 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
802     per event.
803 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
804 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
805 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
806 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
807     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
808 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
809     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
810 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
811 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
812 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
813 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
814     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
815 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
816 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
817 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
818 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
819     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
820     if somebody asks for it :)
821 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
822     spuriously without the event having happened.
823 root 1.146
824 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
825 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
826     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
827 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
828     make LWP non-blocking.
829     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
830 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
831 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
832     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
833 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
834     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
835 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
836     by LWP(!!).
837     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
838 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
839     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
840     did already.
841 root 1.135
842 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
843     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
844     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
845 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
846     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
847     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
848 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
849 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
850 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
851 root 1.130
852 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
853 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
854    
855 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
856    
857 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
858 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
859     mark & sweep gc run.
860 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
861 root 1.125
862 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
863 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
864 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
865    
866 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
867 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
868 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
869 root 1.117 wrong package.
870 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
871     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
872 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
873     normally uses.
874 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
875 root 1.117
876 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
877     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
878    
879 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
880 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
881 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
882     - strict'ify some modules.
883 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
884 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
885     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
886 root 1.112
887 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
888     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
889     when 'l'inux method was used.
890    
891 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
892     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
893    
894 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
895 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
896 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
897     Coro::State::flush method.
898 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
899 root 1.106
900 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
901 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
902 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
903 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
904 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
905 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
906 root 1.100
907 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
908     - change of contact address.
909    
910 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
911 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
912 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
913 root 1.97
914 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
915 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
916 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
917     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
918 root 1.95
919 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
920     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
921    
922 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
923 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
924 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
925     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
926     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
927     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
928     fixable).
929 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
930 pcg 1.91
931 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
932 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
933     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
934 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
935 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
936     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
937     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
938     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
939 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
940 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
941 pcg 1.86
942 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
943 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
944     memory leaks.
945     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
946 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
947     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
948 pcg 1.84
949 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
950     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
951 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
952    
953 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
954     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
955     of new features.
956 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
957     Highly correct stuff, that is...
958 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
959     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
960 root 1.80
961 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
962 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
963 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
964 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
965     so preselect it.
966 root 1.76
967 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
968     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
969     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
970 root 1.74
971 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
972 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
973     - new module Coro::Select.
974     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
975     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
976 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
977 root 1.72
978 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
979     - made lazy context switching the default.
980     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
981     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
982     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
983     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
984    
985 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
986 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
987 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
988     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
989     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
990     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
991     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
992 root 1.69
993 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
994     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
995     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
996     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
997    
998 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
999 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
1000     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
1001     without Event, which freezes).
1002 root 1.65
1003 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
1004 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
1005    
1006 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
1007 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
1008 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1009     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1010     new ones.
1011     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1012 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1013 root 1.60
1014 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1015 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1016     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1017     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1018    
1019 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1020 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1021     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1022     error.
1023 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1024 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1025     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1026 root 1.54
1027 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1028 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1029 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1030     in various modules.
1031     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1032 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1033 root 1.48
1034 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1035 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1036     inside Coro::Handle.
1037 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1038     speed reasons.
1039     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1040     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1041     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1042 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1043 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1044     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1045     under some circumstances.
1046     - other bugfixes.
1047 root 1.43
1048 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1049 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1050     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1051     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1052     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1053     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1054 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1055     syntax.
1056 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1057 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1058 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1059 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1060 root 1.36
1061 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1062 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1063 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1064     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1065 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1066 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1067 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1068     "Callback called exit" messages).
1069 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1070     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1071 root 1.31
1072     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1073 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1074 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1075 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1076 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1077 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1078 root 1.28
1079     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1080 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1081     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1082     - new module Coro::Socket.
1083    
1084 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1085 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1086 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1087     for yield.
1088 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1089 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1090 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1091     perl-5.6.
1092 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1093     - the idle process is now overriden
1094     by default in Coro::Event.
1095 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1096 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1097 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1098     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1099 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1100     non-blocking i/o.
1101 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1102 root 1.16
1103 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1104 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1105 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1106     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1107     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1108 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1109 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1110 root 1.13
1111 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1112     - release candidate 1 ;)
1113     - slightly nicer code.
1114     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1115    
1116 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1117     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1118 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1119     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1120     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1121 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1122     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1123 root 1.9
1124 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1125     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1126     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1127    
1128 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1129 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1130 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1131     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1132     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1133     coroutine-specific vars.
1134 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1135 root 1.4
1136 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1137 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1138     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1139     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1140 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1141 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1142     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1143 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1144    
1145 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1146     - implemented "async" attribute.
1147     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1148     - added Coro::Channel.
1149     - more testcases, still no docs.
1150    
1151 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1152     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1153