--- Coro/Changes 2008/11/13 17:32:01 1.407 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/16 10:12:38 1.421 @@ -5,6 +5,47 @@ actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). +TODO: testcancel +TODO: aio +TODO: Coro::Semaphore +TODO: trow disturbs cleanup path inside pp_slf? +5.0 + - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use 4.912 for the stable version. + - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. + - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters. + - async_pool did free a scalar value twice + ("Attempt to unreference..."). + - fix a longstanding bug where calling terminate on a coro that + was waiting for a semaphore that was just becoming available + would cause a deadlock (semaphore would get into a state where + it was available but waiters were waiting(. + - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported + anymore. + - directly patch the entersub opcode calling SLF functions (cede, + transfer and so on). this does speed up context switching, but + more importanly, it frees us from the hardcoded behaviour of + entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from + those functions and atcually create new ones. + - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc. + - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision, + as "threaded" perls are running at half speed anyways). + - implement execute_slf (schedule-like-function) interface that makes + it possible to implement schedule-like-functions in XS. + - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a factor + of two. + - removed timed_down and timed_guard functions - they were not being used + anyways and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism - and were + annoying to support anyways : + - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a factor + of three. + - forgot to include Coro/libcoro/README in the dist for all these years. + - work around a freebsd pthreads bug (manual testcancel is required as + pthread_cond_wait isn't a cancellation point on freebsd). + +4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008 + - async_pool did free a scalar value twice + ("Attempt to unreference..."). + 4.912 Thu Nov 13 18:31:23 CET 2008 - minor cleanups. - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8.