--- Coro/Changes 2008/09/30 17:12:34 1.378 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/09 23:08:49 1.398 @@ -1,14 +1,57 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Coro. -TODO: should explore PerlIO::coroaio. +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)). -4.8 +4.91 + - typo: new coroutines didn't get created with a zero flags field. + - clean up cctx creation code a bit. + +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 ยต-optimisations. 4.749 Mon Sep 29 14:40:12 CEST 2008 - port to slow and broken pseudo-threaded perls. (courtesy pippijn).