--- Coro/Changes 2004/05/14 13:25:08 1.94 +++ Coro/Changes 2006/11/24 00:09:08 1.152 @@ -1,10 +1,115 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. +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? + + - 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 documentation cleanup. + - very minor optimisations and cleanups. + +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 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 (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 + - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select. + +1.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005 + - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks. + - fix Coro::Select 'select'. + - strict'ify some modules. + - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1. + - use XSLoader in selected modules. + - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft. + +1.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005 + - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64, + when 'l'inux method was used. + +1.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005 + - some portability fixes/workarounds. + +1.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005 + - no code changes. module seems to work fine. + - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting + Coro::State::flush method. + - no longer autodetect windows, present it as an option instead. + +1.2 Mon May 16 02:00:55 CEST 2005 + - included libcoro.c earlier in State.xs, might improve portability. + - use a faster and possibly more stable Coro::Cont implementation. + - accept x86_64 in addition to amd64 for optimized linux-amd64 support. + - fix bugs Coro::SemaphoreSet that could cause locks never to be freed. + - fix bugs in CoroAPI.h and document it in Coro::MakeMaker. + +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. + - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing. + +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. + - tell people if they have yet another broken 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