--- Coro/Changes 2008/11/21 02:39:40 1.455 +++ Coro/Changes 2009/07/06 03:42:29 1.508 @@ -4,11 +4,125 @@ 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: unready_all +TODO: myhttpd header parsing +TODO: channel->maxsize(newsize)? +5.151 Mon Jul 6 05:41:57 CEST 2009 + - backport to windows process emulation code again (patch by + Yasuhiro MATSUMOTO). + - slightly update Coro::MakeMaker. + +5.15 Tue Jun 30 10:28:06 CEST 2009 + - deprecate Coro::Socket, document how to get ipv6 support via + AnyEvent::Socket instead. + - implement signal->wait ($cb) interface, similar to semaphores. + - work around SvOK not supporting getmagic, so we have to getmagic + to test for undef :/ (reported by Matthias Waldorf). + - load Coro::AnyEvent in all modules using AnyEvent. + - work around perl corrupting our internal data structures, + reported by Tokuhiro Matsuno. + - enable per-coroutine real and cpu time gathering + (Coro::State::enable_times). + +5.14 Wed Jun 24 01:37:48 CEST 2009 + - provide explicit functions to "cede" to the event loop in Coro::AnyEvent, + as this seems to have been a difficult concept (poll, sleep, idle, + idle_upto). + - add Coro::AnyEvent::readable/writable functions. + - clarify Coro::EV/Event/AnyEvent manpages. + - free per-thread global scalars in the thread calling ->cancel, to + avoid crashes when $_, $@ etc., are magical but some of those + had already been freed. + - "unexperimentalise" the callback interface for Coro::Semaphore. + - speed up ready queue management/context switching by using a linked + list instead of an array (~5-10%). + - implement "watch" command in Coro::Debug shells. + - for fun, implement time-slicing as an example in the manpage. + - if AnyEvent detects EV or Event, but we don't have Coro::EV or + Coro::Event, use the normal AnyEvent handling instead of dieing + (the same is true for Coro::Handle). + - properly document Coro::EV::timed_io_once. + - avoid unneccessary ->cancel calls in Coro::Handle. + - maybe make it work on mingw32 with win32 backend + (based on patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto). + +5.132 Fri May 29 09:00:39 CEST 2009 + - do not keep a reference to the argument itself in + Coro::Semaphore::guard, as it could change later. + - support SO_RCVBUF/SO_SNDBUF nonstandard Coro::Socket options, + should support a prepare callback. + +5.131 Mon Mar 16 23:20:37 CET 2009 + - implement and document Coro->suspend, Coro->resume. + - fix Coro::Select implementation to not (often) close + the passed file descriptors (testcase provided by pippijn). + +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