--- Coro/Changes 2007/10/24 05:27:02 1.281 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/18 05:51:38 1.427 @@ -1,10 +1,325 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. -TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO. -TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang - (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), +TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio (perl leaks like hell). +TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang's + 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: document throw limitations +5.0 + - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience + stability issues. + - bump API version to 7 - all dependents must be recompiled. + - Coro::Semaphore->adjust didn't correctly wake up enough waiters. + - 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(. + - avoid deadlock in Coro::Channel if maxsize == 1 (Richard Hundt). + - perl's process emulation is now not even theoretically supported + anymore. + - 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 + entersub, so we might actually be able to return something from + those functions and atcually create new ones. + - take advantage of __builtin_frame_address on gcc. + - expose THX in coroapi (not sure whether this was a wise decision, + 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. + - used new SLF interface to speed up Coro::AIO by roughly a factor of + four and reduce its memory usage considerably. + - 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. + - use much larger stacks on linux and perl < 5.8.8. + - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server did not unlink the socket + when destroyed. + +4.911 Tue Nov 11 04:26:17 CET 2008 + - "port" to threaded perls. + +4.91 Mon Nov 10 05:36:38 CET 2008 + - the ->throw exception object no longer leaks. + - creating a new cctx leaked a scopestack entry (memleak). + - new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field + (unknown impact). + - calling ->throw on a not-yet-started coroutine should now work + instead of being ignored. + - ->throw is now supported on Coro::State objects. + - clean up cctx creation code a bit. + - entersub is actually a UNOP, not a LOGOP (not a bugfix). + +4.9 Sat Nov 8 17:45:27 CET 2008 + - (libcoro) did not preserve rbp with CORO_ASM (we are getting there). + - (libcoro) no longer leak threads in the experimental pthread backend, + also speed it up considerably. + - (libcoro) do not rely on makecontext passing void *'s unscathed. + - fix compiletime dependencies on libcoro in the Makefile. + - cctx_count wasn't always updated properly. + - Coro::State::cctx_stacksize wasn't applied correctly. + - new function Coro::State::cctx_max_idle. + - the default max number of idle C contexts is now 4. + - (libcoro) try harder to get _setjmp/_longjmp. + - (libcoro) cleanup and extend the libcoro API to officially + allow the creation of empty source contexts. + - very experimental workaround for the totally broken netbsd platform. + - tried to hack around openbsd bugs. + +4.804 Wed Nov 5 16:36:00 CET 2008 + - Coro::Debug::new_unix_server would not create a non-blocking listening + socket, sometimes causing freezes. + - (libcoro) fix misaligned stack points for setjmp and assembly + methods, which can cause crashes on x86/x86_64 with a sufficiently + aggressive compiler. + - new function: Coro::Debug::new_tcp_server. + - move ->throw into the Coro class because it only works on coro objects. + +4.803 Mon Nov 3 17:16:12 CET 2008 + - (libcoro) use a global asm statement to become independent of gcc + otpimisations for CORO_ASM (thanks to pippijn for the idea). + - try to workaround yet another broken bsd, this time dragonfly. + +4.802 Thu Oct 30 10:56:12 CET 2008 + - support -fno-omit-frame-pointer on x86 with the assembly method. + - tune 01_unblock.t tests a bit. + +4.801 Wed Oct 22 18:33:37 CEST 2008 + - improve readline speed for very long "lines". + - backport to 5.8.8. + +4.8 Thu Oct 2 13:34:40 CEST 2008 + - new function Coro::AIO::aio_wait. + - Coro.:AIO and Coro::BDB now "use Coro::AnyEvent". + - greatly speed up and reduce memory usage of Coro::AIO requests. + - implement some other µ-optimisations. + +4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008 + - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn). + +4.748 Sat Sep 27 14:03:19 CEST 2008 + - implement, but do not document, PerlIO::cede(granularity). + - Coro::Storable forgot to wrap Storable::pstore. + - work around the multitude of leaks and memory corruption + bugs in PerlIO::via by using our own C-level perliol. As a side + effect, Coro::Storable is now much, much, much faster. + +4.747 Tue Sep 23 01:59:41 CEST 2008 + - fix a per-cv memleak (one empty array was leaked per + code reference). + - avoid a crash in coro->call|rss when the coroutine was already + destroyed (most noticably when using Coro::Debug::ps :) + - also protect *Storable::FILE. + - push up default storable granularity to 20ms. + +4.746 Sun Sep 21 03:22:20 CEST 2008 + - be more insistent on locking Storable against reentrancy + in Coro::Storable. + - move swap_def?v and throw to Coro::State, as documented. + +4.745 Thu Jul 24 00:14:38 CEST 2008 + - remove debugging code related to MgPV_nolen_const, also try to + make it compile with perl 5.8.6 (yes, apple apparently loves + outdated software). Reported by John S. + +4.744 Tue Jul 8 22:06:35 CEST 2008 + - correctly provide default DIE/WARN handlers as documented. + - also overwrite PL_vtbl_sigelem.svt_clear, even though current + implementations inside perl work fine for us. + +4.743 Mon Jun 16 00:21:57 CEST 2008 + - when using Coro::EV without running EV::loop it could + result in busy-waiting for events, this has been fixed. + - reduce codesize and improve performance by using EV_DEFAULT_UC. + +4.742 Sat May 31 14:10:21 CEST 2008 + - implement a workaround for (some) perl <5.8.8 versions. + - require EV 3.3+. + +4.741 Fri May 30 23:33:09 CEST 2008 + - tell netbsd how utterly broken their imitation of an OS is + and refuse to build by default if pthreads are in use. + - switch to "s" method on all bsd's by default, as their ucontext + stuff seems just too broken. + - fix a bug in Coro::Select. + +4.74 Thu May 29 20:05:31 CEST 2008 + - do not test Coro::LWP for lack of dependencies. + - do not test Coro::Select for lack of working perls. + +4.73 Thu May 29 2008 + - fix a bug in Coro::EV which would cause it to block despite + there being runnable coroutines. + - sprinkle "no warnings" freely over everything, also suppress + warnings for some other modules. + - fix typo in WSAEWOULDBLOCK. + +4.72 Sun May 25 05:14:36 CEST 2008 + - tweak META.yaml a bit, unfortunately, there is no documented way + to have optional dependencies with CPAN. doh :( + - avoid running some tests on windows because they would fail due to + perl bug (broken fork, broken pipes...). + - work around perl on windows bugs where perl returns undocumented + error codes for sysread, syswrite etc. by taking advantage + of AnyEvent's workaround for that problem. + - use AnyEvent::Util::fh_nonblocking in Coro::Handle to work around + a common perl implementation bug on windows. + - use unix domain sockets in testsuite to work around + common perl implementation bugs on widows (they are emulated by + tcp sockets on windows. ugh.) + +4.71 Sat May 24 20:01:27 CEST 2008 + - fix a bug in Coro::AnyEvent ("Usage: Coro::AnyEvent::_schedule()"). + - take advantage of async name resolution of AnyEvent::Util. + - work around brutal inet_aton override in Coro::LWP. + - take advantage of the readyhook in Coro::EV, for smoother + scheduling. + +4.7 Sun May 11 00:32:19 CEST 2008 + - completely reworked the Coro manpage. + - added Coro::AnyEvent, generic event loop integration. + - implement cancel, ready and kill commands in Coro::Debug. + - document find_coro in Coro::Debug. + - incompatible change: rename has_stack to has_cctx. + - Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB no longer force event model detection, + use AnyEvent::AIO and AnyEvent::BDB. + +4.6 Sat Apr 26 10:05:14 CEST 2008 + - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: sub/code attributes are no longer supported + by the Coro module. It was a mistake to have it in the first place. + - (experimental) support for activestate perl 5.10 (method "w"). + - (experimental) support for strawberry perl (method "a"). + - coro_sigelem_set did not return a value although it had to, + actual impact unknown. + +4.51 Mon Apr 14 13:28:27 CEST 2008 + - make it compile again on 5.8. + +4.50 Thu Apr 10 09:43:17 CEST 2008 + - I did it twice! (see 4.49). + +4.49 Sun Apr 6 21:23:31 CEST 2008 + - grr, instead of compiling the recent changes on 5.10 only they + were compiled on 5.8 only. + +4.48 Sun Apr 6 20:36:46 CEST 2008 + - allow coroutine switches during eval's under 5.10.x, as it seems + the parser is a per-interpreter option now, so this is safe + (this might fix the odd crashing bug). + - drop support for 5.9.x versions: they are dead, jim. + +4.47 Sun Apr 6 00:37:52 CEST 2008 + - force cctx allocation on API calls: we know we need to force one + and gcc actually manages to confuse our heuristic nowadays, + leading to crashes and worse. + - document force_cctx. + +4.46 Fri Apr 4 22:05:43 CEST 2008 + - upgrade libcoro, resulting in pthread-backend (which was only created + to fulfill the rules of the programming languages shootout). + +4.45 Thu Mar 13 11:55:36 CET 2008 + - fix a file leaking bug in eg/mhyttpd that would allow + downloading of any file (reported by oesi). + - fix deadlock bug in Coro::Channel (reported by Richard Hundt) + (also add testcase). + - support Broadcast option in Coro::Socket (patch by Richard Hundt, + apparently having loads of fun with that). + - implement $state->swap_defsv, ->swap_defav and document ->throw. + +4.4 Wed Feb 13 16:44:29 CET 2008 + - only assume .cfi pseudo isns exist on GNU/Linux. + - add get_timed method to Coro::Channels. + - fixed Coro::Debug manpage. + - perl 5.11 compatbility improvement based on patch by + Andreas König. + +4.37 Sun Jan 20 11:25:23 CET 2008 + - soften the check for an active parser for perl 5.10 (avoiding + "Coro::State::transfer called while parsing" in many cases). + +4.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008 + - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not + trigger any __DIE__ handlers. + +4.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008 + - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions + from longmess and also skips the innermost + stackframes, giving more useufl output. + - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV, + at a <1% speed hit. + - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__ + properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking). + +4.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007 + - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API. + +4.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007 + - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV. + +4.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007 + - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV. + - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module. + - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed. + +4.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007 + - remove warn statement form Coro::Util. + +4.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007 + - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption + when the stack changed. + - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used + (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS + if available. + - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable. + - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV. + - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops. + +4.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007 + - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util + and Coro::Handle. + +4.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007 + - fix a spurious memory read. + - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive". + +4.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007 + - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one. + - fix a memleak in Coro::Event. + - removed killall call from fork_eval. + - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval + does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess. + - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}. + - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module + directly supported by Coro. + - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve + stuff in Coro::Util. + - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle. + - initial support for EV (libevent interface). + - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance. + 4.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw. - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise