--- Coro/Changes 2008/11/16 10:12:38 1.421 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/18 09:59:27 1.429 @@ -6,12 +6,17 @@ but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). TODO: testcancel -TODO: aio -TODO: Coro::Semaphore -TODO: trow disturbs cleanup path inside pp_slf? +TODO: guard as SLF - to avoid deadlocks. + - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt). + 5.0 - - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use 4.912 for the stable version. + - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience + stability issues. - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. + - 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 :) + - removed SemaphoreSet's waiter method - use sem instead. - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters. - async_pool did free a scalar value twice ("Attempt to unreference..."). @@ -21,6 +26,7 @@ it was available but waiters were waiting(. - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported anymore. + - use named constants in Coro::Channel (Richard Hundt). - 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 @@ -31,13 +37,15 @@ 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. + - use new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::EV by roughly a + factor of two. + - used new SLF interface to massively speed up Coro::Semaphore by a + factor of three. + - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of + four and reduce its memory usage considerably. + - implement Coro::SemaphoreSet purely in terms of Coro::Semaphore, + for a nice speedup and vastly more correct behaviour. Also implement + a new method "sem" to get at the underlying semaphore object. - 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).