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Revision history for Perl extension Coro.

0.95 Fri Dec 12 20:50:57 CET 2003
        - removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
          faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
        - a memleak with (real) closures remains.
        - dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
          observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
          of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
          pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
        - fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.

0.9  Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
        - fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
          memory leaks.
        - stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
        - perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
          hopefully ignoring it "just works".

0.8   Wed Nov  5 19:38:40 CET 2003
        - port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
        - honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.

0.7   Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
        - the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
          of new features.
        - uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
          Highly correct stuff, that is...
        - fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
          the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.

0.652 Thu May  8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
        - Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
          cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
        - Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
          so preselect it.

0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
        - fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
          on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.

0.65  Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
        - added a README.linux-glibc.
        - new module Coro::Select.
        - also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
          (I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
        - set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.

0.6   Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
        - made lazy context switching the default.
        - fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
          was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
        - fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
        - reclassified context sharing as not experimental.

0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
        - fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
        - added eg/readline, for elmex.
        - Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
          ->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
        - fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
          of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.

0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
        - adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
        - fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
          could it possibly have worked anywhere?)

0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
        - removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
          (some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
          without Event, which freezes).

0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
        - Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.

0.53  Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
        - some tests for Event.
        - slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
          and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
          new ones.
        - Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
        - new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.

0.52  Tue Nov  6 21:36:18 CET 2001
        - ported to cygwin (trivial).
          patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
        - small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.

0.51  Thu Nov  1 20:39:01 CET 2001
        - terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
          could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
          error.
        - added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
        - Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
        - implemented terminate with args + join.

0.5   Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
        - fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
        - small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
          in various modules.
        - splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
        - added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.

0.49  Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
        - changed some method calls to function calls for speed
          inside Coro::Handle.
        - make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
          speed reasons.
        - IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
          sjlj and ucontext should now work.
        - IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
        - swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
        - changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
        - fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
          under some circumstances.
        - other bugfixes.

0.45  Sun Sep  2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
        - new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
        - corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
        - Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
        - Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
        - added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
        - Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
          syntax.
        - moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
        - new simple priority system.
        - implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
        - small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).

0.13  Wed Aug  8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
        - new method Coro::Handle::readline.
        - added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
          (see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
        - renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
        - added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
        - die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
          "Callback called exit" messages).
        - Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
        - much better Coro::Socket support.

0.12  Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
        - do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
        - very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
          should work well in practise ;)
        - added Coro::RWLock.
        - Coro::Specific now works.

0.11  Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
        - added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
        - renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
        - new module Coro::Socket.

0.1   Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
        - release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
        - the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
          for yield.
        - added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
          (not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
        - renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
          perl-5.6.
        - new function Coro::Event::idle.
        - the idle process is now overriden
          by default in Coro::Event.
        - Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
        - canceling events now works in all cases.
        - Coro state now include $_ and $@.
        - yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
        - new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
          non-blocking i/o.
        - performance tuning.

0.08  Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
        - release candidate 2 (new functionality).
        - add Coro::State::flush function.
        - transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
        - might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
        - continuations have a saner syntax.
        - no more memleaks.

0.07  Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
        - release candidate 1 ;)
        - slightly nicer code.
        - fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.

0.06  Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
        - ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
          re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
          see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
          chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
        - memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
        - Coro::Event now works (haha).

0.05  Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
        - fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
        - I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(

0.04  Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
        - @_ is now properly localized.
        - Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
        - Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
        - Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
          coroutine-specific vars.
        - Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.

0.03  Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
        - transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
        - new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
        - big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
          really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
          interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
          model. Still crude and subject to change.
        - $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.

0.02  Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
        - implemented "async" attribute.
        - $_ and $@ are now localized.
        - added Coro::Channel.
        - more testcases, still no docs.

0.01  Tue Jul  3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
        - original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.

Revision:	1.89
Committed:	Sat Feb 14 13:01:55 2004 UTC (20 years, 3 months ago) by pcg
Branch:	MAIN
Changes since 1.88:	+1 -0 lines
Log Message:	* empty log message *
#	User	Rev	Content
1	root	1.1	Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3	pcg	1.87	0.95 Fri Dec 12 20:50:57 CET 2003
4	pcg	1.86	- removed Coro::State::flush, implemented a new and much
5			faster caching mechanism by attaching magic to the CV.
6	pcg	1.87	- a memleak with (real) closures remains.
7	pcg	1.88	- dramatically reduced size of stacks to 65536 (linux/x86), after
8			observing that even myhttpd never had more than a kilobyte
9			of stack in use (stack is still only physically allocated in
10			pagesize increments for systems suporting mmap).
11	pcg	1.89	- fix for a "cygwin-64" architecture added, proposed by Stefan Traby.
12	pcg	1.86
13	pcg	1.85	0.9 Sun Nov 23 04:32:39 CET 2003
14	pcg	1.84	- fix a few very hard to track down but (of course) stupid
15			memory leaks.
16			- stringify version number to avoid locale problems :(.
17	pcg	1.85	- perl 5.9.0 does not have SvPADBUSY, reported by Scott Walters,
18			hopefully ignoring it "just works".
19	pcg	1.84
20	pcg	1.83	0.8 Wed Nov 5 19:38:40 CET 2003
21			- port to perl5.005_03, but only 5.8.x+ is supported!
22	pcg	1.82	- honor LocalAddr even without LocalPort in Coro::Socket.
23
24	root	1.81	0.7 Tue May 27 03:12:38 CEST 2003
25			- the version jump indicates some level of testing, not gobs
26			of new features.
27	root	1.80	- uh... I found the prompt function in ExtUtils::MakeMaker.
28			Highly correct stuff, that is...
29	root	1.81	- fixed(?) a bug with die's in coroutines causing "panic: top_env".
30			the fix is not well understood by the author, so beware :(.
31	root	1.80
32	root	1.79	0.652 Thu May 8 02:54:46 CEST 2003
33	root	1.76	- Applied patch by Slaven Rezic to set default to "s" on FreeBSD,
34	root	1.78	cause version 4 doesn't have ucontext.
35	root	1.77	- Benjamin Reed reported that setjmp works fine on darwin,
36			so preselect it.
37	root	1.76
38	root	1.75	0.651 Sat Mar 29 15:00:23 CET 2003
39			- fix a bug in Coro::Handle where some bytes could get lost
40			on reading, reported by jason@nichego.net.
41	root	1.74
42	root	1.73	0.65 Sun Mar 23 00:08:26 CET 2003
43	root	1.72	- added a README.linux-glibc.
44			- new module Coro::Select.
45			- also save/restore PL_comppad, fixes segfaults with 5.8.1.
46			(I never claimed that I know what I am doing ;).
47	root	1.73	- set default to setjmp/longjmp on non-x86-linux.
48	root	1.72
49	root	1.71	0.6 Thu Nov 21 11:09:06 CET 2002
50			- made lazy context switching the default.
51			- fixed the bug where SemaphoreSet::guard
52			was the same as timed_guard and timed_guard was missing.
53			- fix a memleak in Coro::Timer.
54			- reclassified context sharing as not experimental.
55
56	root	1.70	0.534 Sun Apr 14 03:05:12 CEST 2002
57	root	1.69	- fixed backspace => tab in header parsing (myhttpd).
58	root	1.70	- added eg/readline, for elmex.
59			- Coro::Event now calls ->start on first call instead of
60			->again, which created wrong timeouts for the first ->next.
61			- fixed a bug where Coro::Socket returned a closed socket instead
62			of nothing on ECONNREFUSED and similar error conditions.
63	root	1.69
64	root	1.68	0.533 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 CET 2002
65			- adapt to finally working Event-0.85.
66			- fixed buggy event initialization (trapped under windows, but how
67			could it possibly have worked anywhere?)
68
69	root	1.67	0.532 Wed Jan 16 02:45:32 CET 2002
70	root	1.66	- removed the reference to pp_entersub, might work on
71			(some) win32 perls now (testsuite works under cygwin,
72			without Event, which freezes).
73	root	1.65
74	root	1.64	0.531 Mon Dec 10 22:18:44 CET 2001
75	root	1.63	- Fixed a bug in SemaphoreSet::timed_down.
76
77	root	1.64	0.53 Tue Nov 27 21:11:13 CET 2001
78	root	1.60	- some tests for Event.
79	root	1.61	- slightly different internal architecture to get refcnt into the object
80			and not the reference. might fix a few bugs, certainly did introduce
81			new ones.
82			- Coro::Timer (independent of Event).
83	root	1.62	- new timed_wait functions for Coro::Signal, Semaphore, SemaphoreSet.
84	root	1.60
85	root	1.64	0.52 Tue Nov 6 21:36:18 CET 2001
86	root	1.58	- ported to cygwin (trivial).
87			patch by Gerrit P. Haase <gp@familiehaase.de>.
88			- small setjmp code fix by Sullivan.DanielJ@epamail.epa.gov.
89
90	root	1.64	0.51 Thu Nov 1 20:39:01 CET 2001
91	root	1.54	- terminate/cancel now work properly (otherwise termination
92			could cause a "next coroutine is not and contains not..."
93			error.
94	root	1.55	- added Coro::Socket::shutdown.
95	root	1.56	- Coro::Event::loop no is the same as Event::loop.
96			- implemented terminate with args + join.
97	root	1.54
98	root	1.64	0.5 Fri Sep 28 16:15:35 CEST 2001
99	root	1.53	- fixed "print" on a Coro::Handle. The print method worked.
100	root	1.50	- small tweaks (seem to reduce memory consumption a lot)
101			in various modules.
102			- splendid use of "no warnings" scattered throughout.
103	root	1.52	- added Coro::Handle::rbuf, fixed Coro::Handle::fh.
104	root	1.48
105	root	1.47	0.49 Sun Sep 16 02:42:45 CEST 2001
106	root	1.43	- changed some method calls to function calls for speed
107			inside Coro::Handle.
108	root	1.44	- make Coro::Handle use an array instead of a hash for
109			speed reasons.
110			- IRIX mystery solved: it's SGI's NT, after all: "standard, huh?".
111			sjlj and ucontext should now work.
112			- IRIX-specific port for libcoro.
113	root	1.45	- swapped order of accept results to match IO::Socket.
114	root	1.46	- changed getsock/peername to sock/peername to match IO::Socket.
115			- fixed a bug that caused segfault when returning to main task
116			under some circumstances.
117			- other bugfixes.
118	root	1.43
119	root	1.42	0.45 Sun Sep 2 02:54:01 CEST 2001
120	root	1.36	- new method Coro::Handle::timeout.
121			- corrected speling of set...name to get...name in Coro::Socket.
122			- Coro::Socket::accept now returns a Coro::Socket, not a Coro::Handle.
123			- Coro::Handle now supports fileno and FILENO.
124			- added eg/myhttpd, a web server.
125	root	1.37	- Coro::Socket now accepts numeric ports as well as "port(number)"
126			syntax.
127	root	1.38	- moved some scheduling primitives into xs code. more to come.
128	root	1.39	- new simple priority system.
129	root	1.40	- implemented Coro::Event using XS, almost four times faster!
130	root	1.41	- small memory corruption problem fixed (boy that was difficult).
131	root	1.36
132	root	1.35	0.13 Wed Aug 8 16:53:07 CEST 2001
133	root	1.31	- new method Coro::Handle::readline.
134	root	1.34	- added eg/lwp and Coro::Handle::autoflush, to make LWP work.
135			(see eg/lwp on how to make LWP non-blocking).
136	root	1.31	- renamed Coro::Socket::new_inet to new.
137	root	1.32	- added Coro::Util, some utility functions.
138	root	1.33	- die/eval now works better (still get annoying (but true ;)
139			"Callback called exit" messages).
140	root	1.34	- Coro::Handle now supports timeout, and Coro::Socket Timeout.
141			- much better Coro::Socket support.
142	root	1.31
143			0.12 Fri Jul 27 04:19:01 CEST 2001
144	root	1.29	- do not use mmap if neither MAP_ANON nor MAP_ANONYMOUS is defined.
145	root	1.34	- very experimental stack sharing algorithm. not 100% safe but
146	root	1.28	should work well in practise ;)
147	root	1.30	- added Coro::RWLock.
148	root	1.31	- Coro::Specific now works.
149	root	1.28
150			0.11 Tue Jul 24 22:49:21 CEST 2001
151	root	1.27	- added specialized hack for newer and older linux versions (fast).
152			- renamed Coro::Event::IO to Coro::Handle.
153			- new module Coro::Socket.
154
155	root	1.26	0.1 Tue Jul 24 01:47:53 CEST 2001
156	root	1.23	- release candidate 3. A rather new internal structure :(
157	root	1.24	- the great renaming: Damian Conway gave me a suitable replacement
158			for yield.
159	root	1.23	- added Coro/libcoro, a portable coroutine implementation for C
160	root	1.22	(not even perl-dependent!!!), which can be used by Coro::State.
161	root	1.20	- renamed SAVE_DEFSV (on xs-level only) to avoid symbol clash in
162			perl-5.6.
163	root	1.16	- new function Coro::Event::idle.
164			- the idle process is now overriden
165			by default in Coro::Event.
166	root	1.17	- Coro::Channel now enforces the size.
167	root	1.18	- canceling events now works in all cases.
168	root	1.19	- Coro state now include $_ and $@.
169			- yet another bug workaround that I do not really understand :(
170	root	1.21	- new module Coro::Event::IO (very undocumented) to do
171			non-blocking i/o.
172	root	1.25	- performance tuning.
173	root	1.16
174	root	1.15	0.08 Thu Jul 19 06:13:25 CEST 2001
175	root	1.14	- release candidate 2 (new functionality).
176	root	1.13	- add Coro::State::flush function.
177			- transfer now supports a flags value (mostly for speed ATM).
178			- might compile and work in the presence of threads now.
179	root	1.14	- continuations have a saner syntax.
180	root	1.19	- no more memleaks.
181	root	1.13
182	root	1.12	0.07 Tue Jul 17 17:40:18 CEST 2001
183			- release candidate 1 ;)
184			- slightly nicer code.
185			- fixed a scheduling bug in Coro::Event.
186
187	root	1.11	0.06 Tue Jul 17 04:23:24 CEST 2001
188			- ok, I found the showstopper - the same sub must not be
189	root	1.9	re-entered in two different coroutines, otherwise => crash. I
190			see no easy solution to this problem, except by walking the call
191			chaing and saving/restoring the cv's, which is what I do now.
192	root	1.11	- memory leaks still latent, especially at thread termination.
193			- Coro::Event now works (haha).
194	root	1.9
195	root	1.8	0.05 Sun Jul 15 17:32:20 CEST 2001
196			- fixed a few issues in Coro::Event.
197			- I forgot to include Coro::Event in 0.04 :(:(:(
198
199	root	1.7	0.04 Sun Jul 15 05:24:59 CEST 2001
200	root	1.5	- @_ is now properly localized.
201	root	1.4	- Coro::State is now easier subclassable.
202			- Coro::Cont now coroutine-aware.
203			- Coro::Specific is a low-overhead module to create
204			coroutine-specific vars.
205	root	1.6	- Coro::Event provides a simple interface to Event.
206	root	1.4
207	root	1.3	0.03 Fri Jul 13 14:51:52 CEST 2001
208	root	1.4	- transfer() now implemented in XS (beware).
209			- new module Coro::Cont for really faked continuations.
210			- big internal architecture changes: Coro::State is now
211	root	1.3	really low-level and can thus be used to implement other
212	root	1.4	interesting things, While "Coro::" implements a process-like
213			model. Still crude and subject to change.
214	root	1.3	- $_ and $@ are no longer being localized.
215
216	root	1.2	0.02 Tue Jul 10 01:38:17 CEST 2001
217			- implemented "async" attribute.
218			- $_ and $@ are now localized.
219			- added Coro::Channel.
220			- more testcases, still no docs.
221
222	root	1.1	0.01 Tue Jul 3 02:18:41 CEST 2001
223			- original version; copied from Convert::Scalar.
224