--- Coro/Changes 2001/08/11 23:10:56 1.39 +++ Coro/Changes 2005/03/21 15:06:51 1.101 @@ -1,6 +1,150 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. -0.45 + - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability. + - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation. + +1.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005 + - change of contact address. + +1.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005 + - support [l]inux method on amd64. + - make some context switches while compiling/eval'ing work. + +1.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004 + - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again. + - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for + padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked. + +0.97 Fri May 14 15:23:32 CEST 2004 + - remove stupid gcc extension that was an experiment only anyway. + +0.96 Thu May 13 18:09:29 CEST 2004 + - tell people if they have yet anothe rbroken Event variant. + - made Coro to work _better_ with threads (it seems that, as long + as you use Coros in one thread only everything will work fine. + Looking at the perl source the problem might be missing locking + between Coro and some perl internal routines. That's not easily + fixable). + - (hopefully) got rid of the static xnext inside transfer. + +0.95 Sun Feb 15 03:20:28 CET 2004 + - 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. + - fix for threaded perl. + +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 . + - 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. @@ -10,6 +154,8 @@ 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.