--- Coro/Changes 2006/12/01 13:36:07 1.166 +++ Coro/Changes 2007/01/14 20:47:53 1.199 @@ -1,6 +1,60 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. -3.0 +TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's +TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?) + + - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much + but was rather flaky in practise. + - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until + it was reused. + - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls + in cede_notself. + +3.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007 + - implement $coro->on_destroy. + - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed, + documented and - hopefully - improved. + - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority. + - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds). + - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te") + that could errronously trigger. + - fix various large and small memleaks. + - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation + that immediately frees the coroutine data. + - cede/cede_notself return a status now. + - added Coro::guard function. + - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine, + I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async, + and 128k coros with async_pool). + - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority. + +3.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006 + - improve portability to slightly older perls. + - use cleaner coroutine destruction. + - simplify configuration for users. + - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over + their coro replacements. + +3.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006 + - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even + without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should + notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :) + - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have + it. Also noticed by Andreas König :) + - save/restore tainted status. + - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5. + +3.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow). + - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state. + - give a better error message on deadlock. + - document Coro::nready. + - enhanced testsuite. + +3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006 + - forgot to include Coro::Timer. + +3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon: the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release). - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack @@ -9,6 +63,10 @@ - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use. - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but no Coro::Event watchers were used. + - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not + check for changed watchers. + - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one + per event. - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now. - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub. - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant. @@ -24,6 +82,9 @@ - updated to newest libcoro. - implement enhanced support for valgrind. - implement is_ready and return value for ready. + - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators), + and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back + if somebody asks for it :) - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return spuriously without the event having happened.