--- Coro/Changes 2008/11/20 14:57:45 1.453 +++ Coro/Changes 2008/12/17 04:57:07 1.485 @@ -5,9 +5,74 @@ actor model (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!), but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)). - - convert Coro::Timer and Coro::Select to rouse API. +TODO: suspend/resume, unready_all etc. + - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume. + +5.13 Mon Dec 15 21:51:42 CET 2008 + - EXPERIMENTAL: implement dynamic winds (on_enter/on_leave). + - don't set diehook to C but instead to NULL, to avoid + spurious warnings. + - fix a lot of bugs in Coro::SemaphoreSet. + - Coro::SemaphoreSet will less often create a semaphore needlessly. + - add Coro::SemaphoreSet::count and wait methods. + - take advantage of the new Guard module. + - deprecate Coro::guard. + - try to fix the dreaded 01_unblock tests once more. I hate it when + testsuites need more fixing than the code they are supposed to test. + - croak in more cases when a required callback isn't resolvable. + - fix some minor issues in Coro::State->call/eval. + - use current coroutine context instead of a temporary one + when temporarily switching to another coroutine. + - do not call C-level on_destroy handlers during global destruction, + to avoid needless segfaults. + +5.12 Sun Dec 7 13:30:38 CET 2008 + - add default config for MirOS, which seems to be a bug-to-bug + compatible fork of openbsd ("world domination by releasing + openbsd cvs before the openbsd folks do it" or so :). + - free_padlist did destroy the names pad, not good, but didn't + seem to bother perl - this could fix issues such as eval "" + inside a function called from multiple coroutines. + - use a different method to detect destruction time. + - be more careful when freeing padlists just before global + destruction. + - fixed and expanded the call/cc example. + - renamed _terminate to _coro_run. + - new method Coro::Channel->shutdown. + - try pthreads on openbsd <4.4 (broken sigaltstack, will + pthreads fare better?). + - be less picky about destroying "a" running coroutine. + +5.11 Tue Nov 25 21:49:05 CET 2008 + - DEBUGGING in 5.10.0 is a mess: it constantly flags perfectly + working code with failed assertions, introducing more bugs than + it fixes, requiring elaborate workarounds :( + +5.1 Mon Nov 24 08:54:59 CET 2008 + - wrote a small introductory tutorial - Coro::Intro. + - convert Coro::Timer, Coro::Select and Coro::Util to rouse API. - Coro::Select did errornously dup the file descriptors and didn't work with all AnyEvent backends. + - Coro::Select wasn't imported correctly form Coro::LWP, causing blocking + LWP data transfers. + - disassociate c contexts from coro objects - this is agruably more + correct, but mostly allows sharing of cctxs between coro and state + objects, for added memory savings and speed increases. + - bumped $Coro::POOL_RSS up to 32kb by default. + - no longer set the optype to OP_CUSTOM, as B::* understandably + doesn't like this very much (and we *are* a type of entersub). + - implement state cloning, just to prove that call/cc can be done. + - automatically load Coro::AnyEvent in Coro::Handle. + - wrap ->cancel calls in eval inside Coro::Handle as EV watchers + do not have this method (and don't need it either). + - speed up generic anyevent methods in Coro::Handle by using rouse + callbacks. + - allow coroutines in $Coro::IDLE, speeding up Coro::AnyEvent and + others. It also makes the debugger happier, as you can trace + through the idle threads now. + - add comppad_name* and hints ($^H, %^H) to per-thread variables. + - eg/event was pretty broken. + - better 5.8.6 compatibility. 5.0 Thu Nov 20 10:35:05 CET 2008 - NEW ARCHITECTURE: use the latest 4.x version if you experience