--- Coro/Changes 2008/05/27 06:41:42 1.355 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/05 01:54:34 1.389 @@ -1,10 +1,93 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. -TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. +TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell). TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). +4.804 + - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening + socket, sometimes causign freezes. + - fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly methods, which + can cause crashes on x86_64 with a sufficiently aggressive compiler. + - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server. + - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects. + +4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008 + - use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc otpimisations + for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea). + - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly. + +4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008 + - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method. + - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit. + +4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008 + - improve readline speed for very long "lines". + - backport to 5.8.8. + +4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008 + - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait. + - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent". + - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests. + - implement some other ยต-optimisations. + +4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008 + - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn). + +4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008 + - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity). + - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore. + - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption + bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side + effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster. + +4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008 + - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per + code reference). + - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already + destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :) + - also protect *Storable::FILE. + - push up default storable granularity to 20ms. + +4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008 + - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy + in Coro::Storable. + - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented. + +4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008 + - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to + make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves + outdated software). Reported by John S. + +4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008 + - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented. + - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current + implementations inside perl work fine for us. + +4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008 + - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could + result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed. + - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC. + +4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008 + - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions. + - require EV 3.3+. + +4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008 + - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is + and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use. + - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext + stuff seems just too broken. + - fix a bug in Coro::Select. + +4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008 + - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies. + - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls. + +4.73 Thu May 29 2008 + - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite + there being runnable coroutines. - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress warnings for some other modules. - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK.