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Revision 1.138 by root, Sun Nov 5 02:01:24 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.248 by root, Tue Oct 2 10:38:17 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: destroy gets only called on cancel: fix(?)
4TODO: should explore PerlIO::via::CoroCede and PerlIO::via::CoroAIO.
5TODO: maybe implement a default message channel, very much like Erlang
6 (which is cool in a lot of important aspects (failures!),
7 but very lacking in others (higher level ipc)).
4 8
5TODO: eg/lwp to use Coro::Select 93.8
6TODO: Event/LWP.pm 10 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
7 - should compile with perl 5.9.x now. 11 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
12 debugging, tracing and much more.
13 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
14 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
15 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
16 - added Coro::killall.
17 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
18 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
19 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
20 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
21 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
22 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
23 - enable assembly method per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
24 - many minor tweaks.
25
263.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
27 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
28
293.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
30 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
31 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
32
333.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
34 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
35 pst's sometimes.
36 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
37 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
38 be threadsafe...).
39 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
40 but stateful semantics.
41 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
42 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
43
443.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
45 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
46 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
47 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
48 (EXPERIMENTAL).
49 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
50 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
51 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
52 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
53
543.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
55 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
56 it by default.
57 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
58 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
59 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
60 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
61 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
62 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
63 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
64 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
65 performance.
66
673.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
68 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
69 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
70
713.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
72 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
73 them without asking.
74
753.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
76 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
77 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
78 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
79 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
80 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
81 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
82
833.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
84 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
85 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
86 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
87 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
88 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
89 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
90 obsolete platforms.
91
923.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
93 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
94 but was rather flaky in practise.
95 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
96 it was reused.
97 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
98 in cede_notself.
99
1003.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
101 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
102 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
103 documented and - hopefully - improved.
104 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
105 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
106 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
107 that could errronously trigger.
108 - fix various large and small memleaks.
109 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
110 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
111 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
112 - added Coro::guard function.
113 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
114 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
115 and 128k coros with async_pool).
116 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
117
1183.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
119 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
120 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
121 - simplify configuration for users.
122 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
123 their coro replacements.
124
1253.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
126 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
127 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
128 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
129 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
130 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
131 - save/restore tainted status.
132 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
133
1343.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
135 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
136 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
137 - give a better error message on deadlock.
138 - document Coro::nready.
139 - enhanced testsuite.
140
1413.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
142 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
143
1443.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
145 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
146 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
147 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
148 pool (size currently hardcoded).
149 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
150 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
151 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
152 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
153 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
154 check for changed watchers.
155 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
156 per event.
157 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
158 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
159 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
160 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
161 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
162 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
163 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
164 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
165 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
166 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
167 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
168 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
169 - updated to newest libcoro.
170 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
171 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
172 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
173 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
174 if somebody asks for it :)
175 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
176 spuriously without the event having happened.
177
1782.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
179 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
180 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
181 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
182 make LWP non-blocking.
183 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).
184 - fixed another bug in Coro::Select when the timeout was undef.
8 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine. 185 - reuse PL_start_env for all coros, saves some memory per coroutine.
9 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env. 186 - manage PL_top_env differently, hopefully to avoid panic: top_env.
10 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket. 187 - timeout argument was not properly used in Coro::Socket.
11 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket. 188 - allow limited forms of subclassing in Coro::Handle/Coro::Socket.
12 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required 189 - emulate undocumented(!) functionality of IO::Socket required
13 by LWP(!!). 190 by LWP(!!).
14 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's. 191 - updated eg/lwp to work with newer lwp's.
15 - made Coro::Util an AnyEvent user, moved it to Coro/.
16 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. coroutines that die 192 - remove "FATAL: uncaught exception" prefix. Coroutines that die
17 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main coroutine 193 kill the whole process, just as exceptions in the main "coroutine"
18 do. 194 did already.
19 195
202.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006 1962.1 Wed Nov 1 23:01:13 CET 2006
21 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with 197 - fix a long-standing bug in Coro::Select where select with
22 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle. 198 zero timeout would instead change the current default filehandle.
23 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists 199 - use a simpler and hopefully more robust way to clone padlists

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