--- Coro/Changes 2011/05/16 22:08:24 1.566 +++ Coro/Changes 2011/06/29 17:43:23 1.574 @@ -7,9 +7,17 @@ TODO: tutorial - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: unreferenced coro objects will now be destroyed and cleaned up automatically (e.g. async { schedule }). + - implement a JIT compiler for part of the thread switch code, + which gives a 50% speed improvement on threaded perls, and + about 4% on non-thraeded perls (so threaded perls now finally + reach about half the speed of non-threaded perls). + - slightly modernise Coro::Intro, add section about rouse functions. + - avoid DEFSV and ERRSV, giving another 10% improvement + in thread switching. - Coro::State->is_destroyed is now called is_zombie. - implement a Coro->safe_cancel method that might fail, but cancels in a "safer" way if it succeeds. + - add preliminary support for DEBUGGING perls. - get rid of two hash-accesses when initialising a new Coro - this speeds up coro creation by almost a factor of two. - croak when a coro that is being cancelled tries to block @@ -33,6 +41,11 @@ threads by nulling the pointers on clone. - simplify warn/die hook handling when loading Coro - the convoluted logic seems to be no longer neccessary. + - use libecb instead of our own home-grown gcc hacks. + - document alternatives to Coro::LWP. Please use them :) + - work around another mindless idiotic NEEDLESS bug in openbsd/mirbsds + sigaltstack. Really. wine suffers from it, erlang suffers from it, + and it's known since at least 2006. 5.372 Wed Feb 23 06:14:30 CET 2011 - apparently mingw doesn't provide a working gettimeofday, try to