--- Coro/Changes 2008/11/16 11:12:57 1.422 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/19 15:09:57 1.442 @@ -5,23 +5,31 @@ 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? -TODO: throw special-case in transfer? +TODO: async_pool to SLF 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_* 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..."). + - fix a disastrous bug in the readline optimisation + introduced in 4.801. - 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(. + it was available but waiters were still blocked). + - calling throw on a coroutine that is waiting for a semaphore will + no longer make it acquire the semaphore (and thus leak a count). - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported anymore. + - new functions Coro::rouse_cb and Coro::rouse_wait. + - new function Coro::Semaphore::wait. + - 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 @@ -32,16 +40,27 @@ 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. + - implement Coro::Channel in terms of Coro::Semaphore, for a moderate + (in comparison) 20-40% speedup. + - used new SLF interface to reimplement Coro::Signal gaining + some unknown (because I was too lazy), but certain, speedup, and also + making signals reliable for the first time. - 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). + - use new rouse functions to speed up and simplify Coro::BDB. + - make "prefer perl native functions" work with threaded perls. + - condense Coro::Debug ps output, hint at v and w flags. + - (libcoro) lots of minor cleanups and portability improvements. 4.913 Sat Nov 15 07:58:28 CET 2008 - async_pool did free a scalar value twice