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Revision 1.132 by root, Wed Nov 1 01:21:21 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.262 by root, Sat Oct 6 01:11:01 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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32.1 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
8 - added Coro::throw method.
9 - minor code cleanups.
10
114.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
12 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
13 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
14 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
15 or use tracing).
16 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
17 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
18 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
19
204.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
21 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
22 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
23
244.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
25 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
26 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
27 debugging, tracing and much more.
28 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
29 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
30 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
31 flags.
32 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
33 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
34 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
35 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
36 - added Coro::killall.
37 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
38 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
39 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
40 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
41 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
42 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
43 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
44 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
45 - many minor tweaks.
46
473.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
48 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
49
503.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
51 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
52 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
53
543.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
55 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
56 pst's sometimes.
57 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
58 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
59 be threadsafe...).
60 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
61 but stateful semantics.
62 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
63 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
64
653.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
66 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
67 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
68 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
69 (EXPERIMENTAL).
70 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
71 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
72 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
73 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
74
753.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
76 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
77 it by default.
78 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
79 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
80 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
81 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
82 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
83 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
84 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
85 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
86 performance.
87
883.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
89 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
90 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
91
923.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
93 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
94 them without asking.
95
963.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
97 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
98 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
99 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
100 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
101 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
102 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
103
1043.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
105 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
106 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
107 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
108 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
109 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
110 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
111 obsolete platforms.
112
1133.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
114 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
115 but was rather flaky in practise.
116 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
117 it was reused.
118 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
119 in cede_notself.
120
1213.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
122 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
123 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
124 documented and - hopefully - improved.
125 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
126 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
127 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
128 that could errronously trigger.
129 - fix various large and small memleaks.
130 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
131 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
132 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
133 - added Coro::guard function.
134 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
135 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
136 and 128k coros with async_pool).
137 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
138
1393.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
140 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
141 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
142 - simplify configuration for users.
143 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
144 their coro replacements.
145
1463.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
147 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
148 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
149 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
150 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
151 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
152 - save/restore tainted status.
153 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
154
1553.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
156 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
157 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
158 - give a better error message on deadlock.
159 - document Coro::nready.
160 - enhanced testsuite.
161
1623.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
163 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
164
1653.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
166 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
167 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
168 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
169 pool (size currently hardcoded).
170 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
171 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
172 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
173 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
174 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
175 check for changed watchers.
176 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
177 per event.
178 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
179 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
180 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
181 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
182 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
183 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
184 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
185 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
186 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
187 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
188 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
189 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
190 - updated to newest libcoro.
191 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
192 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
193 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
194 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
195 if somebody asks for it :)
196 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
197 spuriously without the event having happened.
198
1992.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
200 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
201 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
202 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
203 make LWP non-blocking.
204 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
205 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
206 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
207 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
208 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
209 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
210 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
211 by LWP(!!).
212 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
213 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
214 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
215 did already.
216
2172.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
218 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
219 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
4 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists 220 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
5 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own). 221 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
6 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures. 222 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
223 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
7 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X, 224 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
8 pach by Michael Schwern. 225 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
9 226
102.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006 2272.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
11 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO. 228 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
12 229
131.9 (never properly released due to a glitch) 2301.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)

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