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Revision 1.108 by root, Sat Aug 20 01:10:01 2005 UTC vs.
Revision 1.278 by root, Sat Oct 13 23:19:10 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2
3TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
4TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
5 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
6 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
7
84.13
9 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
10 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
11 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
12
134.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
14 - port to threaded perls.
15
164.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
17 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
18 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
19 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
20 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
21 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
22 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
23 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
24 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
25 speeds up context switching a bit.
26 - further tune default stack sizes.
27 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
28 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
29 resulting in races between coroutines.
30 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
31 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
32 an unrelated coroutine.
33 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
34 more detail in Coro::State.
35 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
36 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
37 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
38 invalidating pointers.
39
404.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
41 - added Coro::throw method.
42 - minor code cleanups.
43
444.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
45 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
46 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
47 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
48 or use tracing).
49 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
50 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
51 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
52
534.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
54 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
55 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
56
574.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
58 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
59 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
60 debugging, tracing and much more.
61 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
62 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
63 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
64 flags.
65 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
66 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
67 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
68 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
69 - added Coro::killall.
70 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
71 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
72 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
73 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
74 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
75 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
76 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
77 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
78 - many minor tweaks.
79
803.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
81 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
82
833.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
84 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
85 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
86
873.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
88 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
89 pst's sometimes.
90 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
91 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
92 be threadsafe...).
93 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
94 but stateful semantics.
95 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
96 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
97
983.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
99 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
100 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
101 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
102 (EXPERIMENTAL).
103 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
104 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
105 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
106 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
107
1083.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
109 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
110 it by default.
111 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
112 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
113 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
114 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
115 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
116 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
117 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
118 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
119 performance.
120
1213.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
122 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
123 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
124
1253.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
126 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
127 them without asking.
128
1293.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
130 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
131 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
132 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
133 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
134 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
135 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
136
1373.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
138 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
139 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
140 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
141 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
142 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
143 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
144 obsolete platforms.
145
1463.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
147 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
148 but was rather flaky in practise.
149 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
150 it was reused.
151 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
152 in cede_notself.
153
1543.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
155 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
156 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
157 documented and - hopefully - improved.
158 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
159 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
160 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
161 that could errronously trigger.
162 - fix various large and small memleaks.
163 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
164 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
165 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
166 - added Coro::guard function.
167 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
168 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
169 and 128k coros with async_pool).
170 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
171
1723.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
173 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
174 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
175 - simplify configuration for users.
176 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
177 their coro replacements.
178
1793.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
180 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
181 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
182 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
183 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
184 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
185 - save/restore tainted status.
186 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
187
1883.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
189 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
190 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
191 - give a better error message on deadlock.
192 - document Coro::nready.
193 - enhanced testsuite.
194
1953.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
196 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
197
1983.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
199 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
200 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
201 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
202 pool (size currently hardcoded).
203 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
204 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
205 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
206 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
207 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
208 check for changed watchers.
209 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
210 per event.
211 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
212 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
213 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
214 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
215 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
216 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
217 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
218 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
219 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
220 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
221 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
222 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
223 - updated to newest libcoro.
224 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
225 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
226 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
227 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
228 if somebody asks for it :)
229 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
230 spuriously without the event having happened.
231
2322.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
233 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
234 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
235 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
236 make LWP non-blocking.
237 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
238 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
239 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
240 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
241 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
242 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
243 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
244 by LWP(!!).
245 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
246 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
247 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
248 did already.
249
2502.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
251 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
252 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
253 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
254 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
255 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
256 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
257 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
258 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
259
2602.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
261 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
262
2631.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
264
2651.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
266 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
267 mark & sweep gc run.
268 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
269
2701.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
271 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
272 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
273
2741.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
275 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
276 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
277 wrong package.
278 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
279 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
280 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
281 normally uses.
282 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
283
2841.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
285 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
286
2871.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005
288 - use Coro::Event inside Coro::Select to avoid spurious deadlocks.
289 - fix Coro::Select 'select'.
290 - strict'ify some modules.
291 - libcoro errornously restored the SIGUSR2 handler to SIGUSR1.
292 - use XSLoader in selected modules.
293 - remove some 5.6 compatibility cruft.
294
2951.4 Tue Sep 6 00:11:05 CEST 2005
296 - libcoro did not take into account the trampoline on amd64,
297 when 'l'inux method was used.
298
2991.31 Tue Aug 30 23:31:33 CEST 2005
300 - some portability fixes/workarounds.
2 301
31.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005 3021.3 Sat Aug 20 03:08:56 CEST 2005
4 - no code changes. module seems to work fine. 303 - no code changes. module seems to work fine.
5 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting 304 - improve Coro::State docs, remove reference to nonexisting
6 Coro::State::flush method. 305 Coro::State::flush method.
161.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005 3151.11 Thu Mar 3 18:00:52 CET 2005
17 - change of contact address. 316 - change of contact address.
18 317
191.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005 3181.1 Tue Feb 22 20:51:16 CET 2005
20 - support [l]inux method on amd64. 319 - support [l]inux method on amd64.
21 - make some context switches while compiling/eval'ing work. 320 - allow some context switches while compiling/eval'ing.
22 321
231.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004 3221.0 Tue Aug 10 03:47:27 CEST 2004
24 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again. 323 - Event 0.89 fixes the bug again.
25 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for 324 - fix the remaining(??) memleak. I didn't free the cache-AV for
26 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked. 325 padlists, so one AV per created anon-sub leaked.

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