--- Coro/Changes 2008/11/12 04:49:06 1.404 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/11/15 06:26:51 1.415 @@ -5,7 +5,33 @@ actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). +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. + - 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 (it's roughly + twice as fast now). + - removed timed_down and timed_guard functions - they were not being used + anyways and should be replaced by a more generic mechanism. + +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.