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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
84.35
9 - "bt" debug command now displays any exceptions
10 from longmess and also skips the innermost
11 stackframes, giving more useufl output.
12 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
13 at a <1% speed hit.
14 - handle localising of $SIG{__WARN__} and __DIE__
15 properly (with a proepr amount of dirty hacking).
16
174.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
18 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
19
204.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
21 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
22
234.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
24 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
25 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
26 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
27
284.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
29 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
30
314.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
32 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
33 when the stack changed.
34 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
35 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
36 if available.
37 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
38 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
39 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
40
414.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
42 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
43 and Coro::Handle.
44
454.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
46 - fix a spurious memory read.
47 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
48
494.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
50 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
51 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
52 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
53 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
54 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
55 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
56 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
57 directly supported by Coro.
58 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
59 stuff in Coro::Util.
60 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
61 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
62 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
63
644.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
65 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
66 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
67 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
68 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
69 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
70 This also catches recursive invocations.
71 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
72
734.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
74 - port to threaded perls.
75
764.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
77 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
78 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
79 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
80 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
81 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
82 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
83 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
84 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
85 speeds up context switching a bit.
86 - further tune default stack sizes.
87 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
88 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
89 resulting in races between coroutines.
90 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
91 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
92 an unrelated coroutine.
93 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
94 more detail in Coro::State.
95 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
96 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
97 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
98 invalidating pointers.
99
1004.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
101 - added Coro::throw method.
102 - minor code cleanups.
103
1044.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
105 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
106 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
107 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
108 or use tracing).
109 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
110 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
111 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
112
1134.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
114 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
115 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
116
1174.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
118 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
119 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
120 debugging, tracing and much more.
121 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
122 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
123 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
124 flags.
125 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
126 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
127 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
128 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
129 - added Coro::killall.
130 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
131 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
132 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
133 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
134 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
135 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
136 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
137 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
138 - many minor tweaks.
139
1403.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
141 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
142
1433.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
144 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
145 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
146
1473.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
148 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
149 pst's sometimes.
150 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
151 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
152 be threadsafe...).
153 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
154 but stateful semantics.
155 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
156 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
157
1583.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
159 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
160 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
161 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
162 (EXPERIMENTAL).
163 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
164 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
165 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
166 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
167
1683.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
169 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
170 it by default.
171 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
172 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
173 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
174 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
175 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
176 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
177 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
178 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
179 performance.
180
1813.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
182 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
183 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
184
1853.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
186 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
187 them without asking.
188
1893.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
190 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
191 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
192 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
193 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
194 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
195 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
196
1973.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
198 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
199 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
200 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
201 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
202 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
203 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
204 obsolete platforms.
205
2063.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
207 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
208 but was rather flaky in practise.
209 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
210 it was reused.
211 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
212 in cede_notself.
213
2143.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
215 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
216 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
217 documented and - hopefully - improved.
218 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
219 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
220 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
221 that could errronously trigger.
222 - fix various large and small memleaks.
223 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
224 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
225 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
226 - added Coro::guard function.
227 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
228 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
229 and 128k coros with async_pool).
230 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
231
2323.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
233 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
234 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
235 - simplify configuration for users.
236 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
237 their coro replacements.
238
2393.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
240 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
241 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
242 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
243 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
244 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
245 - save/restore tainted status.
246 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
247
2483.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
249 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
250 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
251 - give a better error message on deadlock.
252 - document Coro::nready.
253 - enhanced testsuite.
254
2553.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
256 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
257
2583.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
259 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
260 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
261 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
262 pool (size currently hardcoded).
263 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
264 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
265 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
266 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
267 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
268 check for changed watchers.
269 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
270 per event.
271 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
272 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
273 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
274 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
275 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
276 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
277 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
278 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
279 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
280 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
281 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
282 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
283 - updated to newest libcoro.
284 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
285 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
286 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
287 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
288 if somebody asks for it :)
289 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
290 spuriously without the event having happened.
291
2922.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
293 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
294 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
295 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
296 make LWP non-blocking.
297 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
298 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
299 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
300 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
301 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
302 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
303 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
304 by LWP(!!).
305 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
306 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
307 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
308 did already.
309
3102.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
311 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
312 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
4 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists 313 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists
5 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own). 314 (uses less memory and a perl function instead of our own).
6 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures. 315 - coro can now create a stack guard area on many architectures.
316 - Coro::AIO properly reexports additional functions from IO::AIO.
7 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X, 317 - updated libcoro with a workaround for OS X,
8 pach by Michael Schwern. 318 pach and testing by Michael Schwern.
9 319
102.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006 3202.0 Tue Oct 24 05:47:17 CEST 2006
11 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO. 321 - support additional aio requests in Coro::AIO.
12 322
131.9 (never properly released due to a glitch) 3231.9 (never properly released due to a glitch)

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