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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 1.564 TODO: tutorial
8     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be
9     destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }).
10     - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie.
11 root 1.562 - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block
12     (e.g. while executing a guard block), instead of crashing or
13     deadlocking.
14 root 1.563 - use a more robust and also faster method to identify Coro::State
15     objects - speeds up everything a bit.
16 root 1.560 - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but
17     cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds.
18 root 1.555 - implement Coro->cancel in XS for a 20% speed improvement, and to
19     be able to implement mutual cancellation.
20 root 1.561 - speed up context switches by a percent or two by more efficiently
21     allocating context stack entries.
22 root 1.563 - implement Coro->join and Coro->on_destroy in XS for a speedup and
23     a reduction in memory use.
24 root 1.556 - cancelling a coro while it itself is cancelling another coro is
25     now supported and working, instead of triggering an assertion.
26 root 1.554 - be a bit more crash-resistant when calling (buggy) on_destroy
27 root 1.555 callbacks (best effort).
28 root 1.559 - move on_destroy into the slf_frame, to allow extension slf
29     functions to have destructors.
30 root 1.563 - get rid if coro refcounting - simply crash in other interpreter
31     threads by nulling the pointers on clone.
32 root 1.554
33 root 1.553 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011
34     - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to
35     work around that by relying on Time::HiRes (indirectly brought to
36     my attention by Max Maischein).
37     - fix some portability issues when Time::HiRes was used.
38    
39 root 1.552 5.371 Mon Feb 21 14:36:08 CET 2011
40     - backport to windows process emulation code again.
41    
42 root 1.551 5.37 Sat Feb 19 07:49:44 CET 2011
43 root 1.549 - add a big "Coro thread life cycle" section to "man Coro".
44 root 1.548 - try a tentative workaround against the breakage that 5.13 has
45     introduced without depreciation period. sigh.
46 root 1.551 - no longer use Time::HiRes if gettimeofday is available, which
47     saves quite a lot of memory.
48 root 1.548
49 root 1.547 5.36 Sun Feb 13 05:33:41 CET 2011
50 root 1.545 - automatically load Coro::Channel, Coro::RWLock, Coro::Semaphore,
51     Coro::SemaphoreSet, Coro::Signal and Coro::Specific on first "new"
52     method call.
53     - undocument Coro::Timer::sleep and obsolete whole module.
54     - optimise Coro::Timer::timeout memory and cpu usage.
55 root 1.546 - slightly updated Coro::Intro for recent changes.
56 root 1.547 - do not initialise PL_dirty anymore.
57 root 1.545
58 root 1.544 5.25 Thu Nov 11 01:08:39 CET 2010
59 root 1.543 - try a different approach on netbsd - netbsd 5 finally has marginally
60     working pthreads, but still broken ucontext/sigaltstack.
61 root 1.544 - openbsd 4.8 finally got their act together, Coro works out of the box
62     with asm, setjmp and pthreads (no change, just informational).
63 root 1.543
64 root 1.542 5.24 Sat Oct 23 11:27:12 CEST 2010
65     - port to the EV 4.0 API.
66     - work around bugs in mingw32, making strawberry perl work
67     out of the box.
68 root 1.541 - correctly modify Coro::AIO function prototypes
69     so that they reflect the "no optional parameters" rule.
70 root 1.540 - "ported" libcoro to C++.
71    
72 root 1.539 5.23 Mon May 17 18:50:42 CEST 2010
73 root 1.538 - be more resistant to ordering changes when initialising
74     Coro::AnyEvent, Coro::EV and Coro::Event (reported by Matthias
75     Waldorf).
76 root 1.536 - document that perl 5.12 deliberately removed support for cloning.
77    
78 root 1.535 5.22 Wed Apr 14 03:55:35 CEST 2010
79     - correctly return udnef on errors in Coro::Handle::read/write
80 root 1.537 (testcase by Marc Mims).
81 root 1.532 - convert Coro::Util into a "perl compatibility wrapper" - the functions
82     are less useful now, but are drop-in replacements for existing
83     functions, listing better alternatives in the documentation. This also
84     fixes a bug in Coro::LWP which naively substituted Socket::inet_aton
85     with Coro::Util::inet_aton.
86 root 1.533 - do not override $Coro::idle unconditionally in Coro.pm, as other
87     modules could have provided their own idle coro already
88     (for exmaple, Coro::AnyEvent).
89 root 1.532 - fix Coro::Util::gethost* functions.
90 root 1.534 - Coro::Timer corretcly exports it's symbols (reported by Hideki Yamamura).
91 root 1.532
92     5.21 Wed Dec 16 07:19:51 CET 2009
93 root 1.530 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent when AnyEvent and Coro are used
94     together.
95     - add some examples on how to combine other event loops with Coro in
96 root 1.531 Coro::AnyEvent, and how to run it (and not to block). Seems to be
97     the most common source of confusion.
98     - try to catch people naively blocking in an event callback.
99     - work around the perl filehandle bug issue in conjunction with
100     older common::sense (as indirectly pointed out by ZSystem).
101 root 1.529 - clarify the "not from signal handlers" section.
102    
103 root 1.528 5.2 Sun Oct 4 14:54:24 CEST 2009
104 root 1.524 - Coro::Storable destroyed the prototypes of the functions it wrapped.
105 root 1.527 - export rouse_cb and rouse_wait by default now.
106 root 1.524 - fix various prototype mismatches in Coro::AnyEvent and Coro::Handle.
107 root 1.527 - new method $state->swap_sv.
108 root 1.522 - added section on "windows process emulation" to the manpage,
109     after a not-so-fruitful (nor-friendly) "discussion" with chip
110     salzenberg (discussion implies arguments, but his only arguments
111     were ad-hominems, one wonders why he started it in the first
112 root 1.523 place). I hope this explains it well enough for him to understand,
113     and maybe well enough for others to understand.
114 root 1.524 - use common::sense everywhere now.
115 root 1.525 - idle callbacks are no longer supported, use idle coros instead.
116     - print a thread listing when a deadlock is detected.
117 root 1.522
118 root 1.521 5.17 Sat Aug 22 23:09:31 CEST 2009
119 root 1.520 - work around a bug in the perl debugger causing crashes
120     when running under the debugger by marking _pool_handler as nodebug.
121 root 1.519 - speed up Coro::async considerably.
122 root 1.521 - try some hacks to get netbsd to work "more often" - their broken
123     setjmp/longjmp, ucontext *and* phtreads are really hard on Coro.
124     - convert Coro to AE 5.0 API.
125 root 1.519
126 root 1.518 5.162 Tue Jul 28 04:04:03 CEST 2009
127 root 1.517 - perl 5.8.2 is now minimum requirement.
128 root 1.518 - skip t/19_handle.t on broken windows perls.
129 root 1.517
130 root 1.516 5.161 Wed Jul 22 04:47:38 CEST 2009
131     - Coro::AnyEvent::poll could have a different prototype when EV was
132     used as backend (analyzed by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa).
133 root 1.515 - Coro::AnyEvent errornously initialised the event loop when loaded,
134     not on demand.
135 root 1.516 - try to workaround rare */t/01_unblock.t failures.
136 root 1.515
137 root 1.514 5.16 Tue Jul 21 01:44:37 CEST 2009
138 root 1.512 - Coro::AnyEvent failed to hook into the event loop
139     when no threads had been readied between detecting
140     the event loop and actually running it.
141 root 1.509 - considerably speed up Coro::Select by taking avdantage
142     of AnyEvent > 4.8 and some other optimisations.
143 root 1.514 - implement paragraph readline mode in Coro::Handle
144     (based on patches by Zsbán Ambrus).
145 root 1.513 - replace WSAEINPROGRESS by WSAEWOULDBLOCK (reported
146     and analyzed by Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
147 root 1.511 - clarified libcoro license and copyright.
148 root 1.510 - someone stole my EXTRA_META!!!
149 root 1.512 - implement Coro::Select::patch_pp_sselect and it's brother,
150     for hardcode select overriding.
151 root 1.509
152 root 1.508 5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009
153 root 1.506 - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by
154     Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO).
155 root 1.507 - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker.
156 root 1.506
157 root 1.505 5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009
158 root 1.502 - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via
159     AnyEvent::Socket instead.
160 root 1.500 - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores.
161 root 1.501 - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic
162     to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf).
163 root 1.502 - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent.
164 root 1.503 - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures,
165     reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno.
166 root 1.504 - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering
167     (Coro::State::enable_times).
168 root 1.500
169 root 1.499 5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009
170 root 1.497 - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent,
171     as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle,
172     idle_upto).
173     - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions.
174     - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages.
175 root 1.496 - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to
176     avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those
177     had already been freed.
178 root 1.499 - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore.
179 root 1.493 - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked
180 root 1.492 list instead of an array (~5-10%).
181 root 1.493 - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells.
182 root 1.494 - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage.
183 root 1.497 - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or
184     Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing
185     (the same is true for Coro::Handle).
186     - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once.
187 root 1.498 - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle.
188     - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend
189     (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto).
190 root 1.492
191 root 1.490 5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009
192 root 1.488 - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in
193 root 1.491 Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later.
194 root 1.489 - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options,
195     should support a prepare callback.
196 root 1.488
197 root 1.487 5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009
198 root 1.485 - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume.
199 root 1.486 - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close
200     the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn).
201 root 1.485
202 root 1.484 5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008
203 root 1.481 - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave).
204 root 1.476 - don't set diehook to C<undef> but instead to NULL, to avoid
205     spurious warnings.
206 root 1.478 - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet.
207     - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly.
208     - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods.
209 root 1.477 - take advantage of the new Guard module.
210     - deprecate Coro::guard.
211 root 1.479 - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when
212     testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test.
213 root 1.480 - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable.
214     - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval.
215     - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one
216     when temporarily switching to another coroutine.
217 root 1.484 - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction,
218     to avoid needless segfaults.
219 root 1.476
220 root 1.475 5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008
221 root 1.467 - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug
222     compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing
223     openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :).
224 root 1.468 - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't
225 root 1.470 seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval ""
226 root 1.477 inside a function called from multiple coroutines.
227 root 1.467 - use a different method to detect destruction time.
228     - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global
229     destruction.
230 root 1.469 - fixed and expanded the call/cc example.
231 root 1.471 - renamed _terminate to _coro_run.
232 root 1.473 - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown.
233     - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will
234     pthreads fare better?).
235     - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine.
236 root 1.466
237 root 1.465 5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008
238 root 1.464 - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly
239     working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than
240     it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :(
241    
242 root 1.463 5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008
243     - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro.
244 root 1.454 - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API.
245 root 1.453 - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors
246     and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends.
247 root 1.463 - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking
248     LWP data transfers.
249 root 1.458 - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more
250     correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state
251     objects, for added memory savings and speed increases.
252 root 1.455 - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default.
253 root 1.456 - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably
254     doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub).
255 root 1.458 - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done.
256 root 1.460 - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle.
257 root 1.461 - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers
258     do not have this method (and don't need it either).
259     - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse
260     callbacks.
261     - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and
262     others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace
263     through the idle threads now.
264 root 1.462 - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables.
265 root 1.461 - eg/event was pretty broken.
266 root 1.457 - better 5.8.6 compatibility.
267 root 1.453
268 root 1.452 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008
269 root 1.424 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience
270     stability issues.
271 root 1.411 - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled.
272 root 1.430 - removed timed_* functions - they were not being used anyways
273     and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism -
274 root 1.429 and were annoying to support anyways :)
275 root 1.451 - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem method instead.
276 root 1.415 - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters.
277 root 1.416 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
278     ("Attempt to unreference...").
279 root 1.420 - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that
280     was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available
281     would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where
282 root 1.433 it was available but waiters were still blocked).
283 root 1.432 - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will
284     no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count).
285 root 1.412 - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported
286     anymore.
287 root 1.447 - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait for easier
288     conversion of callback-style to blocking-style.
289     - new methods $coro->schedule_to and ->cede_to, to specifically
290     schedule or cede to a specific coroutine.
291 root 1.433 - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait.
292 root 1.428 - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt).
293 root 1.412 - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede,
294     transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but
295     more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of
296     entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from
297     those functions and atcually create new ones.
298     - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc.
299     - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision,
300     as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways).
301     - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes
302     it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS.
303 root 1.424 - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a
304     factor of two.
305     - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a
306     factor of three.
307 root 1.426 - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of
308     four and reduce its memory usage considerably.
309 root 1.429 - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore,
310     for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement
311     a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object.
312 root 1.430 - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate
313     (in comparison) 20-40% speedup.
314 root 1.435 - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining
315     some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also
316     making signals reliable for the first time.
317 root 1.445 - used new SLF interface and other optimisations to speed up async_pool
318     by a factor of two. It also doesn't rely on perl's exception mechanism
319 root 1.446 to exit anymore. The overhead for terminating an async_pool, coro over
320     a normal async is now very small.
321 root 1.444 - sped up coroutine creation/destruction by 40%.
322 root 1.417 - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years.
323 root 1.418 - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as
324     pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd).
325 root 1.438 - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB.
326 root 1.439 - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls.
327 root 1.440 - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags.
328 root 1.436 - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements.
329 root 1.416
330 root 1.449 4.914 Wed Nov 19 12:54:18 CET 2008
331     - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation
332     introduced in 4.801.
333    
334 root 1.416 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008
335     - async_pool did free a scalar value twice
336     ("Attempt to unreference...").
337 root 1.408
338 root 1.407 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008
339 root 1.404 - minor cleanups.
340 root 1.405 - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.
341 root 1.406 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket
342     when destroyed.
343 root 1.404
344 root 1.403 4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008
345 root 1.401 - "port" to threaded perls.
346    
347 root 1.400 4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008
348     - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks.
349     - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak).
350     - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field
351     (unknown impact).
352 root 1.399 - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work
353     instead of being ignored.
354 root 1.400 - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects.
355 root 1.398 - clean up cctx creation code a bit.
356 root 1.400 - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix).
357 root 1.398
358 root 1.397 4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008
359 root 1.392 - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there).
360     - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend,
361     also speed it up considerably.
362 root 1.394 - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed.
363 root 1.392 - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile.
364     - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly.
365 root 1.393 - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly.
366     - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle.
367     - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4.
368 root 1.394 - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp.
369     - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially
370     allow the creation of empty source contexts.
371 root 1.395 - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform.
372 root 1.396 - tried to hack around openbsd bugs.
373 root 1.391
374 root 1.390 4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008
375 root 1.389 - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening
376 root 1.390 socket, sometimes causing freezes.
377 root 1.392 - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly
378     methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently
379     aggressive compiler.
380 root 1.389 - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server.
381 root 1.388 - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects.
382    
383 root 1.387 4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008
384 root 1.392 - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc
385     otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea).
386 root 1.387 - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly.
387 root 1.386
388 root 1.385 4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008
389     - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method.
390 root 1.383 - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit.
391    
392 root 1.382 4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008
393 root 1.381 - improve readline speed for very long "lines".
394 root 1.382 - backport to 5.8.8.
395 root 1.381
396 root 1.380 4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008
397 root 1.378 - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait.
398     - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent".
399     - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests.
400 root 1.379 - implement some other µ-optimisations.
401 root 1.378
402 root 1.377 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008
403     - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).
404    
405 root 1.376 4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008
406 root 1.374 - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity).
407 root 1.372 - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore.
408 root 1.374 - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption
409 root 1.375 bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side
410     effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster.
411 root 1.372
412 root 1.371 4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008
413 root 1.369 - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per
414     code reference).
415 root 1.370 - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already
416     destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :)
417     - also protect *Storable::FILE.
418 root 1.371 - push up default storable granularity to 20ms.
419 root 1.369
420 root 1.368 4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008
421     - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy
422     in Coro::Storable.
423 root 1.366 - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented.
424    
425 root 1.365 4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008
426 root 1.364 - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to
427     make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves
428     outdated software). Reported by John S.
429 root 1.363
430 root 1.362 4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008
431 root 1.361 - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented.
432     - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current
433     implementations inside perl work fine for us.
434    
435 root 1.360 4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008
436     - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could
437     result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed.
438     - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC.
439    
440 root 1.359 4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008
441     - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions.
442     - require EV 3.3+.
443    
444 root 1.358 4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008
445     - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is
446     and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use.
447     - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext
448     stuff seems just too broken.
449     - fix a bug in Coro::Select.
450    
451 root 1.357 4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008
452     - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies.
453     - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls.
454    
455     4.73 Thu May 29 2008
456 root 1.356 - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite
457     there being runnable coroutines.
458 root 1.354 - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress
459     warnings for some other modules.
460 root 1.355 - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.
461 root 1.354
462 root 1.353 4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008
463 root 1.351 - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way
464     to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :(
465 root 1.350 - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to
466 root 1.351 perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...).
467     - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented
468     error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage
469     of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem.
470 root 1.350 - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around
471     a common perl implementation bug on windows.
472     - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around
473 root 1.351 common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by
474     tcp sockets on windows. ugh.)
475 root 1.350
476 root 1.349 4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008
477 root 1.348 - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()").
478 root 1.347 - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util.
479     - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP.
480 root 1.348 - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother
481     scheduling.
482 root 1.347
483 root 1.346 4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008
484 root 1.342 - completely reworked the Coro manpage.
485     - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration.
486 root 1.341 - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug.
487     - document find_coro in Coro::Debug.
488 root 1.343 - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx.
489 root 1.346 - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection,
490     use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB.
491 root 1.341
492 root 1.340 4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008
493 root 1.336 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported
494 root 1.339 by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place.
495     - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w").
496     - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a").
497 root 1.337 - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to,
498     actual impact unknown.
499 root 1.336
500 root 1.335 4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008
501     - make it compile again on 5.8.
502    
503 root 1.334 4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008
504     - I did it twice! (see 4.49).
505    
506 root 1.333 4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008
507     - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they
508     were compiled on 5.8 only.
509    
510 root 1.332 4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008
511 root 1.331 - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems
512     the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe
513     (this might fix the odd crashing bug).
514 root 1.332 - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim.
515 root 1.331
516 root 1.330 4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008
517 root 1.329 - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one
518     and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays,
519     leading to crashes and worse.
520 root 1.330 - document force_cctx.
521 root 1.329
522 root 1.328 4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008
523     - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created
524     to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout).
525    
526 root 1.327 4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008
527 root 1.322 - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow
528     downloading of any file (reported by oesi).
529 root 1.325 - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt)
530     (also add testcase).
531 root 1.323 - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt,
532     apparently having loads of fun with that).
533 root 1.324 - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw.
534 root 1.322
535 root 1.321 4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008
536 root 1.319 - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux.
537 root 1.320 - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels.
538 root 1.321 - fixed Coro::Debug manpage.
539     - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by
540     Andreas König.
541 root 1.319
542 root 1.318 4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008
543 root 1.317 - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding
544     "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases).
545 root 1.316
546 root 1.315 4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
547 root 1.314 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
548     trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
549    
550 root 1.313 4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
551 root 1.308 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
552 root 1.311 from longmess and also skips the innermost
553     stackframes, giving more useufl output.
554 root 1.309 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
555 root 1.310 at a <1% speed hit.
556 root 1.312 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
557 root 1.314 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
558 root 1.308
559 root 1.307 4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
560 root 1.306 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
561    
562 root 1.305 4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
563     - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
564    
565 root 1.304 4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
566 root 1.301 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
567 root 1.302 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
568 root 1.304 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
569 root 1.301
570 root 1.300 4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
571     - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
572    
573 root 1.299 4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
574     - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
575     when the stack changed.
576 root 1.295 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
577     (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
578     if available.
579 root 1.296 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
580 root 1.297 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
581 root 1.298 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
582 root 1.295
583 root 1.294 4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
584 root 1.293 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
585     and Coro::Handle.
586    
587 root 1.292 4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
588 root 1.290 - fix a spurious memory read.
589 root 1.291 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
590 root 1.290
591 root 1.289 4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
592 root 1.282 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
593 root 1.283 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
594 root 1.284 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
595     - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
596     does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
597 root 1.288 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
598 root 1.289 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
599     directly supported by Coro.
600     - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
601     stuff in Coro::Util.
602 root 1.286 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
603 root 1.287 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
604 root 1.289 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
605 root 1.282
606 root 1.281 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
607 root 1.277 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
608 root 1.278 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
609     $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
610 root 1.279 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
611     instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
612     This also catches recursive invocations.
613 root 1.280 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
614 root 1.277
615 root 1.276 4.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
616     - port to threaded perls.
617    
618 root 1.275 4.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
619 root 1.264 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
620     be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
621 root 1.274 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
622     cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
623 root 1.264 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
624     - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
625     - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
626     a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
627     speeds up context switching a bit.
628 root 1.265 - further tune default stack sizes.
629 root 1.264 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
630 root 1.267 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
631     resulting in races between coroutines.
632     - added Coro::Storable::guard.
633 root 1.268 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
634     an unrelated coroutine.
635 root 1.269 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
636     more detail in Coro::State.
637 root 1.270 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
638     causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
639 root 1.272 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
640     invalidating pointers.
641 root 1.264
642 root 1.263 4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
643 root 1.262 - added Coro::throw method.
644     - minor code cleanups.
645    
646 root 1.261 4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
647 root 1.258 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
648 root 1.259 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
649     prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
650     or use tracing).
651     - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
652 root 1.260 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
653     about 2-5% speed improvement here.
654 root 1.258
655 root 1.256 4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
656 root 1.257 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
657     use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
658 root 1.255
659 root 1.254 4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
660 root 1.238 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
661 root 1.244 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
662     debugging, tracing and much more.
663 root 1.252 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
664     "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
665     of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
666     flags.
667 root 1.251 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
668 root 1.232 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
669 root 1.233 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
670     - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
671 root 1.248 - added Coro::killall.
672 root 1.236 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
673 root 1.239 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
674 root 1.240 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
675 root 1.245 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
676     - refuse to transfer while compiling.
677     - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
678 root 1.249 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
679 root 1.253 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
680 root 1.237 - many minor tweaks.
681 root 1.232
682 root 1.231 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
683 root 1.230 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
684    
685 root 1.229 3.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
686     - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
687 root 1.228 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
688 root 1.227
689 root 1.226 3.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
690 root 1.225 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
691     pst's sometimes.
692 root 1.223 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
693 root 1.224 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
694     be threadsafe...).
695     - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
696     but stateful semantics.
697 root 1.226 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
698     Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
699 root 1.223
700     3.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
701 root 1.217 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
702 root 1.218 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
703 root 1.219 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
704     (EXPERIMENTAL).
705 root 1.220 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
706     - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
707     work again and be a bit less magic, too.
708     - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
709 root 1.217
710 root 1.216 3.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
711 root 1.215 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
712     it by default.
713     - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
714     to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
715     - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
716 root 1.211 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
717 root 1.212 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
718 root 1.213 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
719     which can dramatically improve performance, but people
720     using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
721     performance.
722 root 1.211
723 root 1.210 3.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
724 root 1.209 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
725     (patch by Yuval Kogman).
726    
727 root 1.208 3.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
728     - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
729     them without asking.
730    
731 root 1.207 3.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
732 root 1.204 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
733     caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
734 root 1.205 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
735     - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
736 root 1.206 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
737     avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
738 root 1.204
739 root 1.203 3.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
740 root 1.202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
741     nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
742 root 1.203 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
743     stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
744     idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
745     my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
746     obsolete platforms.
747 root 1.202
748 root 1.201 3.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
749 root 1.197 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
750     but was rather flaky in practise.
751 root 1.198 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
752     it was reused.
753 root 1.199 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
754     in cede_notself.
755 root 1.197
756 root 1.196 3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
757 root 1.187 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
758 root 1.188 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
759     documented and - hopefully - improved.
760 root 1.184 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
761 root 1.185 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
762 root 1.190 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
763     that could errronously trigger.
764 root 1.192 - fix various large and small memleaks.
765 root 1.191 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
766     that immediately frees the coroutine data.
767 root 1.194 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
768 root 1.191 - added Coro::guard function.
769 root 1.193 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
770     I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
771     and 128k coros with async_pool).
772 root 1.195 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
773 root 1.184
774 root 1.183 3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
775 root 1.179 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
776 root 1.180 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
777 root 1.182 - simplify configuration for users.
778     - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
779     their coro replacements.
780 root 1.179
781 root 1.178 3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
782     - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
783     without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
784     notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
785     - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
786     it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
787     - save/restore tainted status.
788     - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
789    
790 root 1.177 3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
791     - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
792 root 1.175 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
793 root 1.173 - give a better error message on deadlock.
794 root 1.175 - document Coro::nready.
795 root 1.174 - enhanced testsuite.
796 root 1.169
797 root 1.172 3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
798     - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
799    
800 root 1.171 3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
801 root 1.163 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
802     the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
803 root 1.166 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
804     pool (size currently hardcoded).
805 root 1.155 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
806 root 1.157 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
807 root 1.152 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
808 root 1.161 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
809 root 1.167 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
810     check for changed watchers.
811 root 1.170 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
812     per event.
813 root 1.152 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
814 root 1.165 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
815 root 1.164 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
816 root 1.163 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
817     some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
818 root 1.161 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
819     directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
820 root 1.156 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
821 root 1.154 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
822 root 1.153 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
823 root 1.154 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
824     - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
825 root 1.156 - updated to newest libcoro.
826 root 1.159 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
827 root 1.162 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
828 root 1.168 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
829     and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
830     if somebody asks for it :)
831 root 1.163 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
832     spuriously without the event having happened.
833 root 1.146
834 root 1.145 2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
835 root 1.143 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
836     use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
837 root 1.140 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
838     make LWP non-blocking.
839     - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
840 root 1.141 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
841 root 1.136 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
842     - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
843 root 1.137 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
844     - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
845 root 1.138 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
846     by LWP(!!).
847     - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
848 root 1.140 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
849     kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
850     did already.
851 root 1.135
852 root 1.134 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
853     - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
854     zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
855 root 1.132 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
856     (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
857     - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
858 root 1.134 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
859 root 1.132 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
860 root 1.134 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
861 root 1.130
862 root 1.129 2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
863 root 1.128 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
864    
865 root 1.129 1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
866    
867 root 1.127 1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
868 root 1.125 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
869     mark & sweep gc run.
870 root 1.126 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
871 root 1.125
872 root 1.124 1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
873 root 1.123 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
874 root 1.122 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
875    
876 root 1.119 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
877 root 1.117 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
878 root 1.121 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
879 root 1.117 wrong package.
880 root 1.118 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
881     perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
882 root 1.121 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
883     normally uses.
884 root 1.120 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
885 root 1.117
886 root 1.116 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
887     - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
888    
889 root 1.115 1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
890 root 1.114 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
891 root 1.115 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
892     - strict'ify some modules.
893 root 1.112 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
894 root 1.115 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
895     - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
896 root 1.112
897 root 1.111 1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
898     - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
899     when 'l'inux method was used.
900    
901 root 1.110 1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
902     - some portability fixes/workarounds.
903    
904 root 1.107 1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
905 root 1.108 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
906 root 1.106 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
907     Coro::State::flush method.
908 root 1.107 - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead.
909 root 1.106
910 root 1.105 1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005
911 root 1.100 - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability.
912 root 1.101 - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation.
913 root 1.102 - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support.
914 root 1.104 - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed.
915 root 1.105 - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker.
916 root 1.100
917 root 1.99 1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
918     - change of contact address.
919    
920 root 1.98 1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
921 root 1.97 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
922 root 1.109 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
923 root 1.97
924 root 1.96 1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
925 root 1.95 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
926 root 1.96 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
927     padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.
928 root 1.95
929 pcg 1.94 0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004
930     - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway.
931    
932 pcg 1.93 0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004
933 root 1.103 - tell people if they have yet another broken Event variant.
934 pcg 1.91 - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long
935     as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine.
936     Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking
937     between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily
938     fixable).
939 pcg 1.92 - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer.
940 pcg 1.91
941 pcg 1.90 0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004
942 pcg 1.86 - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
943     faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
944 pcg 1.87 - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
945 pcg 1.88 - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
946     observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
947     of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
948     pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
949 pcg 1.89 - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
950 pcg 1.90 - fix for threaded perl.
951 pcg 1.86
952 pcg 1.85 0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
953 pcg 1.84 - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
954     memory leaks.
955     - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
956 pcg 1.85 - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
957     hopefully ignoring it "just works".
958 pcg 1.84
959 pcg 1.83 0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
960     - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
961 pcg 1.82 - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
962    
963 root 1.81 0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
964     - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
965     of new features.
966 root 1.80 - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
967     Highly correct stuff, that is...
968 root 1.81 - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
969     the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
970 root 1.80
971 root 1.79 0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
972 root 1.76 - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
973 root 1.78 cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
974 root 1.77 - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
975     so preselect it.
976 root 1.76
977 root 1.75 0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
978     - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
979     on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
980 root 1.74
981 root 1.73 0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
982 root 1.72 - added a README.linux-glibc.
983     - new module Coro::Select.
984     - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
985     (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
986 root 1.73 - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
987 root 1.72
988 root 1.71 0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
989     - made lazy context switching the default.
990     - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
991     was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
992     - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
993     - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
994    
995 root 1.70 0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
996 root 1.69 - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
997 root 1.70 - added eg/readline, for elmex.
998     - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
999     ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
1000     - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
1001     of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
1002 root 1.69
1003 root 1.68 0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
1004     - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
1005     - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
1006     could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
1007    
1008 root 1.67 0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
1009 root 1.66 - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
1010     (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
1011     without Event, which freezes).
1012 root 1.65
1013 root 1.64 0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
1014 root 1.63 - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
1015    
1016 root 1.64 0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
1017 root 1.60 - some tests for Event.
1018 root 1.61 - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
1019     and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
1020     new ones.
1021     - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
1022 root 1.62 - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
1023 root 1.60
1024 root 1.64 0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
1025 root 1.58 - ported to cygwin (trivial).
1026     patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
1027     - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
1028    
1029 root 1.64 0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
1030 root 1.54 - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
1031     could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
1032     error.
1033 root 1.55 - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
1034 root 1.56 - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
1035     - implemented terminate with args + join.
1036 root 1.54
1037 root 1.64 0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
1038 root 1.53 - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
1039 root 1.50 - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
1040     in various modules.
1041     - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
1042 root 1.52 - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
1043 root 1.48
1044 root 1.47 0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
1045 root 1.43 - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
1046     inside Coro::Handle.
1047 root 1.44 - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
1048     speed reasons.
1049     - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
1050     sjlj and ucontext should now work.
1051     - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
1052 root 1.45 - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
1053 root 1.46 - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
1054     - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
1055     under some circumstances.
1056     - other bugfixes.
1057 root 1.43
1058 root 1.42 0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
1059 root 1.36 - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
1060     - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
1061     - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
1062     - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
1063     - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
1064 root 1.37 - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
1065     syntax.
1066 root 1.38 - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
1067 root 1.39 - new simple priority system.
1068 root 1.40 - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
1069 root 1.41 - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
1070 root 1.36
1071 root 1.35 0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
1072 root 1.31 - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
1073 root 1.34 - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
1074     (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
1075 root 1.31 - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
1076 root 1.32 - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
1077 root 1.33 - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
1078     "Callback called exit" messages).
1079 root 1.34 - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
1080     - much better Coro::Socket support.
1081 root 1.31
1082     0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
1083 root 1.29 - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
1084 root 1.34 - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
1085 root 1.28 should work well in practise ;)
1086 root 1.30 - added Coro::RWLock.
1087 root 1.31 - Coro::Specific now works.
1088 root 1.28
1089     0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
1090 root 1.27 - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
1091     - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
1092     - new module Coro::Socket.
1093    
1094 root 1.26 0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
1095 root 1.23 - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
1096 root 1.24 - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
1097     for yield.
1098 root 1.23 - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
1099 root 1.22 (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
1100 root 1.20 - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
1101     perl-5.6.
1102 root 1.16 - new function Coro::Event::idle.
1103     - the idle process is now overriden
1104     by default in Coro::Event.
1105 root 1.17 - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
1106 root 1.18 - canceling events now works in all cases.
1107 root 1.19 - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
1108     - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
1109 root 1.21 - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
1110     non-blocking i/o.
1111 root 1.25 - performance tuning.
1112 root 1.16
1113 root 1.15 0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
1114 root 1.14 - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
1115 root 1.13 - add Coro::State::flush function.
1116     - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
1117     - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
1118 root 1.14 - continuations have a saner syntax.
1119 root 1.19 - no more memleaks.
1120 root 1.13
1121 root 1.12 0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
1122     - release candidate 1 ;)
1123     - slightly nicer code.
1124     - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
1125    
1126 root 1.11 0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
1127     - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
1128 root 1.9 re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
1129     see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
1130     chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
1131 root 1.11 - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
1132     - Coro::Event now works (haha).
1133 root 1.9
1134 root 1.8 0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
1135     - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
1136     - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
1137    
1138 root 1.7 0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
1139 root 1.5 - @_ is now properly localized.
1140 root 1.4 - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
1141     - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
1142     - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
1143     coroutine-specific vars.
1144 root 1.6 - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
1145 root 1.4
1146 root 1.3 0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
1147 root 1.4 - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
1148     - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
1149     - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
1150 root 1.3 really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
1151 root 1.4 interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
1152     model. Still crude and subject to change.
1153 root 1.3 - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
1154    
1155 root 1.2 0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
1156     - implemented "async" attribute.
1157     - $_ and $@ are now localized.
1158     - added Coro::Channel.
1159     - more testcases, still no docs.
1160    
1161 root 1.1 0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
1162     - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
1163