--- Coro/Changes 2006/11/04 01:31:57 1.137 +++ Coro/Changes 2006/11/24 15:34:33 1.154 @@ -1,17 +1,38 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. -TODO: possibly convert some of the Event modules into AnyEvent users. +TODO: check wether stack-sharing is still effective +TODO: more effective stack sharing by having one "default stack" for "simple" coroutines? +TODO: verify exception frame changes and force stack copies? -TODO: eg/lwp to use Coro::Select - - should compile with perl 5.9.x now. + - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but + Event watchers were used directly. + - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now. + - minor incompatibility: subclassing is supported directly now + without going through a _coro_state member. + - process swicthing is much faster now. + - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup. + - avoid problems due to compiler inlining. + - possibly better support for threads. + - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead. + - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler. + +2.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006 + - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket + use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/. + - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to + make LWP non-blocking. + - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it). + - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef. - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine. - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env. - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket. - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket. - - made Coro::Util an AnyEvent user, moved it to Coro/. - - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. coroutines that die - kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main coroutine - do. + - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required + by LWP(!!). + - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's. + - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die + kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine" + did already. 2.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with