--- Coro/Changes 2005/05/15 23:46:25 1.104 +++ Coro/Changes 2006/12/04 13:47:56 1.175 @@ -1,16 +1,141 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. +TODO: transfer flags must be per state +TODO: better (earlier) error messages on broken transfer's + +3. + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine. + - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state. + - give a better error message on deadlock. + - document Coro::nready. + - enhanced testsuite. + +3.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006 + - forgot to include Coro::Timer. + +3.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006 + - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon: + the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release). + - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack + pool (size currently hardcoded). + - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic). + - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use. + - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but + no Coro::Event watchers were used. + - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not + check for changed watchers. + - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one + per event. + - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now. + - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub. + - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant. + - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under + some circumstances lead to stack corruption. + - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported + directly now without going through a _coro_state member. + - state/coro switching is much faster now. + - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup. + - avoid problems due to compiler inlining. + - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead. + - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler. + - updated to newest libcoro. + - implement enhanced support for valgrind. + - implement is_ready and return value for ready. + - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators), + and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back + if somebody asks for it :) + - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return + spuriously without the event having happened. + +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. - - make some context switches while compiling/eval'ing work. + - 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.