--- Coro/Changes 2008/11/15 06:26:51 1.415 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/16 09:43:18 1.420 @@ -5,11 +5,19 @@ 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 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_poll did free a scalar value twice. + - 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, @@ -22,10 +30,20 @@ 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 (it's roughly - twice as fast now). + - 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. + 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.