--- Coro/Changes 2005/12/12 20:38:17 1.120 +++ Coro/Changes 2006/11/30 18:21:14 1.162 @@ -1,13 +1,73 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. +3.0 + - reimplement a new stack sharing algorithm. + - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic). + - 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 should be cleaner and more efficient now. + - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported + directly now without going through a _coro_state member. + - state/coro switching is much faster now. + - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup. + - avoid problems due to compiler inlining. + - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead. + - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler. + - updated to newest libcoro. + - implement enhanced support for valgrind. + - implement is_ready and return value for ready. + +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. + - 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 + zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle. + - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists + (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own). + - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures. + - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO. + - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X, + pach and testing by Michael Schwern. + +2.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006 + - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO. + +1.9 (never properly released due to a glitch) + +1.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006 + - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid + mark & sweep gc run. + - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility. + +1.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005 + - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO. + - improved Makefile.PL explanations. + 1.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet - unseen problems with regex matches being attributes to the + unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the wrong package. - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get - invocation (debian) as opposed ot the 0.0002MB normal - perls use. + invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl + normally uses. - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience. 1.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005