--- Coro/Changes 2011/06/29 16:08:31 1.573 +++ Coro/Changes 2011/07/13 02:36:01 1.578 @@ -4,13 +4,25 @@ TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)? TODO: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/s2ce.aspx -TODO: tutorial +6.02 Wed Jul 13 04:35:19 CEST 2011 + - "improve portability to Gentoo" - gentoo manages to put perl variables + in memory areas that are farther than 2gb apart, which the jit couldn't + handle and barfed. now it's just a bit slower on gentoo and similar + systems. + +6.01 Sun Jul 3 12:31:14 CEST 2011 + - workarounds are good, but the test for whether pthreads are used + was not good. thisone should be better. + - check differently whether gcc generates cfi instructions itself. + +6.0 Wed Jun 29 19:43:35 CEST 2011 - 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.