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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 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
84.36 Sun Jan 13 10:53:56 CET 2008
9 - reset diehook when terminating from an async_pool as to not
10 trigger any __DIE__ handlers.
11
124.35 Sun Jan 13 04:14:13 CET 2008
13 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
14 from longmess and also skips the innermost
15 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
16 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
17 at a <1% speed hit.
18 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
19 properly (with a proper amount of dirty hacking).
20
214.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
22 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
23
244.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
25 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
26
274.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
28 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
29 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
30 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
31
324.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
33 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
34
354.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
36 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
37 when the stack changed.
38 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
39 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
40 if available.
41 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
42 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
43 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
44
454.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
46 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
47 and Coro::Handle.
48
494.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
50 - fix a spurious memory read.
51 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
52
534.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
54 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
55 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
56 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
57 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
58 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
59 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
60 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
61 directly supported by Coro.
62 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
63 stuff in Coro::Util.
64 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
65 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
66 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
67
684.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
69 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
70 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
71 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
72 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
73 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
74 This also catches recursive invocations.
75 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
76
774.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
78 - port to threaded perls.
79
804.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
81 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
82 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
83 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
84 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
85 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
86 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
87 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
88 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
89 speeds up context switching a bit.
90 - further tune default stack sizes.
91 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
92 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
93 resulting in races between coroutines.
94 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
95 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
96 an unrelated coroutine.
97 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
98 more detail in Coro::State.
99 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
100 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
101 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
102 invalidating pointers.
103
1044.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
105 - added Coro::throw method.
106 - minor code cleanups.
107
1084.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
109 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
110 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
111 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
112 or use tracing).
113 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
114 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
115 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
116
1174.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
118 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
119 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
120
1214.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
122 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
123 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
124 debugging, tracing and much more.
125 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
126 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
127 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
128 flags.
129 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
130 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
131 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
132 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
133 - added Coro::killall.
134 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
135 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
136 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
137 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
138 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
139 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
140 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
141 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
142 - many minor tweaks.
143
1443.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
145 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
146
1473.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
148 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
149 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
150
1513.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
152 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
153 pst's sometimes.
154 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
155 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
156 be threadsafe...).
157 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
158 but stateful semantics.
159 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
160 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
161
1623.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
163 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
164 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
165 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
166 (EXPERIMENTAL).
167 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
168 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
169 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
170 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
171
1723.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
173 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
174 it by default.
175 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
176 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
177 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
178 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
179 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
180 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
181 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
182 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
183 performance.
184
1853.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
186 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
187 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
188
1893.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
190 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
191 them without asking.
192
1933.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
194 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
195 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
196 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
197 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
198 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
199 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
200
2013.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
202 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
203 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
204 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
205 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
206 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
207 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
208 obsolete platforms.
209
2103.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
211 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
212 but was rather flaky in practise.
213 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
214 it was reused.
215 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
216 in cede_notself.
217
2183.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
219 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
220 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
221 documented and - hopefully - improved.
222 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
223 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
224 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
225 that could errronously trigger.
226 - fix various large and small memleaks.
227 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
228 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
229 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
230 - added Coro::guard function.
231 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
232 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
233 and 128k coros with async_pool).
234 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
235
2363.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
237 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
238 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
239 - simplify configuration for users.
240 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
241 their coro replacements.
242
2433.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
244 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
245 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
246 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
247 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
248 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
249 - save/restore tainted status.
250 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
251
2523.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
253 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
254 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
255 - give a better error message on deadlock.
256 - document Coro::nready.
257 - enhanced testsuite.
258
2593.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
260 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
261
2623.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
263 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
264 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
265 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
266 pool (size currently hardcoded).
267 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
268 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
269 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
270 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
271 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
272 check for changed watchers.
273 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
274 per event.
275 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
276 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
277 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
278 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
279 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
280 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
281 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
282 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
283 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
284 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
285 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
286 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
287 - updated to newest libcoro.
288 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
289 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
290 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
291 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
292 if somebody asks for it :)
293 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
294 spuriously without the event having happened.
295
2962.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
297 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
298 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
299 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
300 make LWP non-blocking.
301 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
302 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
303 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
304 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
305 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
306 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
307 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
308 by LWP(!!).
309 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
310 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
311 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
312 did already.
313
3142.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
315 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
316 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
317 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
318 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
319 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
320 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
321 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
322 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
323
3242.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
325 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
326
3271.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)
328
3291.8 Thu Feb 2 00:59:06 CET 2006
330 - applied suggested patch by SAMV to avoid problems during stupid
331 mark & sweep gc run.
332 - applied patch by Scott Walters for 5.9.3 compatibility.
333
3341.7 Tue Dec 27 01:41:58 CET 2005
335 - added Coro::AIO, a thin wrapper around IO::AIO.
336 - improved Makefile.PL explanations.
337
3381.6 Mon Dec 12 21:30:05 CET 2005
3 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet 339 - additionally save PM_curpm might fix as-of-yet
4 unseen problems with regex matches being attributes to the 340 unseen problems with regex matches being attributed to the
5 wrong package. 341 wrong package.
342 - add t/10_bugs.t, which currently checks against imho broken
343 perls that use 0.26MB of stack space per Perl_magic_get
344 invocation (newer linuxes) as opposed to the 0.0002MB perl
345 normally uses.
346 - make stacksize configurable for the ultimate debian experience.
6 347
71.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005 3481.51 Mon Dec 12 18:48:36 CET 2005
8 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select. 349 - remove debugging warn() accidentally left in Coro::Select.
9 350
101.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005 3511.5 Tue Nov 29 13:32:44 CET 2005

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