--- Coro/Changes 2007/09/22 17:53:21 1.240 +++ Coro/Changes 2007/10/06 19:25:00 1.263 @@ -1,21 +1,49 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. -TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's -TODO: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?) +TODO: localise SIG{__DIE__} and/or __WARN__ TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), - but very lacking in others). + but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). -3.7 +4.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007 + - added Coro::throw method. + - minor code cleanups. + +4.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007 + - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference). + - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed + prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize + or use tracing). + - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated. + - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives + about 2-5% speed improvement here. + +4.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007 + - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply + use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust. + +4.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze. - - added Coro::Debug, interactive coroutine debugging. + - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine + debugging, tracing and much more. + - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other + "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed, + of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save + flags. + - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them. - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust. - added Coro::Util::fork_eval. - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}. + - added Coro::killall. - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines". - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool handling to XS (major speed improvement). + - actually croak before modifying important data structures. + - refuse to transfer while compiling. + - possibly support eval EXPR better now. + - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64. + - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing. - many minor tweaks. 3.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007