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Revision 1.134 by root, Wed Nov 1 22:02:45 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.290 by root, Wed Nov 14 10:24:13 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: possibly convert some of the Event modules into AnyEvent users. 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 - fix a spurious memory read.
9
104.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
11 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
12 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
13 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
14 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
15 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
16 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
17 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
18 directly supported by Coro.
19 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
20 stuff in Coro::Util.
21 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
22 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
23 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
24
254.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
26 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
27 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
28 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
29 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
30 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
31 This also catches recursive invocations.
32 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
33
344.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
35 - port to threaded perls.
36
374.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
38 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
39 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
40 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
41 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
42 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
43 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
44 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
45 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
46 speeds up context switching a bit.
47 - further tune default stack sizes.
48 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
49 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
50 resulting in races between coroutines.
51 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
52 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
53 an unrelated coroutine.
54 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
55 more detail in Coro::State.
56 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
57 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
58 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
59 invalidating pointers.
60
614.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
62 - added Coro::throw method.
63 - minor code cleanups.
64
654.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
66 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
67 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
68 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
69 or use tracing).
70 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
71 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
72 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
73
744.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
75 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
76 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
77
784.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
79 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
80 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
81 debugging, tracing and much more.
82 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
83 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
84 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
85 flags.
86 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
87 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
88 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
89 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
90 - added Coro::killall.
91 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
92 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
93 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
94 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
95 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
96 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
97 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
98 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
99 - many minor tweaks.
100
1013.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
102 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
103
1043.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
105 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
106 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
107
1083.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
109 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
110 pst's sometimes.
111 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
112 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
113 be threadsafe...).
114 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
115 but stateful semantics.
116 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
117 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
118
1193.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
120 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
121 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
122 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
123 (EXPERIMENTAL).
124 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
125 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
126 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
127 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
128
1293.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
130 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
131 it by default.
132 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
133 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
134 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
135 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
136 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
137 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
138 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
139 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
140 performance.
141
1423.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
143 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
144 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
145
1463.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
147 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
148 them without asking.
149
1503.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
151 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
152 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
153 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
154 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
155 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
156 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
157
1583.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
159 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
160 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
161 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
162 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
163 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
164 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
165 obsolete platforms.
166
1673.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
168 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
169 but was rather flaky in practise.
170 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
171 it was reused.
172 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
173 in cede_notself.
174
1753.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
176 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
177 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
178 documented and - hopefully - improved.
179 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
180 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
181 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
182 that could errronously trigger.
183 - fix various large and small memleaks.
184 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
185 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
186 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
187 - added Coro::guard function.
188 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
189 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
190 and 128k coros with async_pool).
191 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
192
1933.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
194 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
195 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
196 - simplify configuration for users.
197 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
198 their coro replacements.
199
2003.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
201 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
202 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
203 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
204 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
205 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
206 - save/restore tainted status.
207 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
208
2093.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
210 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
211 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
212 - give a better error message on deadlock.
213 - document Coro::nready.
214 - enhanced testsuite.
215
2163.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
217 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
218
2193.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
220 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
221 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
222 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
223 pool (size currently hardcoded).
224 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
225 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
226 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
227 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
228 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
229 check for changed watchers.
230 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
231 per event.
232 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
233 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
234 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
235 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
236 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
237 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
238 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
239 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
240 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
241 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
242 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
243 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
244 - updated to newest libcoro.
245 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
246 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
247 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
248 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
249 if somebody asks for it :)
250 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
251 spuriously without the event having happened.
252
2532.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
254 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
255 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
256 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
257 make LWP non-blocking.
258 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
259 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
260 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
261 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
262 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
263 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
264 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
265 by LWP(!!).
266 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
267 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
268 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
269 did already.
4 270
52.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006 2712.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
6 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with 272 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
7 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle. 273 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
8 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists 274 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists

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