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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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32.5 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.
11 - allow backtraces in coroutines blocked in Coro::EV,
12 at a <1% speed hit.
13
144.34 Sat Dec 22 17:49:53 CET 2007
15 - upgrade to EV version 2.0 API.
16
174.33 Mon Dec 17 08:36:12 CET 2007
18 - make Coro::AIO etc. loadable in the absence of EV.
19
204.32 Mon Dec 17 07:46:02 CET 2007
21 - majorly improved Coro::Handle's performance with Coro::EV.
22 - implemented the until now mythical Coro::BDB module.
23 - specialcase EV in Coro::AIO and Coro::BDB for extra speed.
24
254.31 Wed Dec 5 12:32:39 CET 2007
26 - remove warn statement form Coro::Util.
27
284.3 Tue Dec 4 20:33:14 CET 2007
29 - calls to the idle function could cause stack corruption
30 when the stack changed.
31 - do no longer rely on the presence of EV::DNS if EV is used
32 (because it is gone), but instead take avdantage of EV::ADNS
33 if available.
34 - add ($) prototypes to all functions in Coro::Storable.
35 - use a conventional (safer) idle callback in Coro::EV.
36 - do accept quickly in Coro::Debug to avoid endless loops.
37
384.22 Fri Nov 30 16:04:04 CET 2007
39 - really use optimised versions for Event and EV in Coro::Util
40 and Coro::Handle.
41
424.21 Sun Nov 25 10:48:59 CET 2007
43 - fix a spurious memory read.
44 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
45
464.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
47 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
48 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
49 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
50 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
51 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
52 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
53 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
54 directly supported by Coro.
55 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
56 stuff in Coro::Util.
57 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
58 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
59 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
60
614.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
62 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
63 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
64 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
65 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
66 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
67 This also catches recursive invocations.
68 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
69
704.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
71 - port to threaded perls.
72
734.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
74 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
75 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
76 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
77 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
78 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
79 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
80 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
81 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
82 speeds up context switching a bit.
83 - further tune default stack sizes.
84 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
85 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
86 resulting in races between coroutines.
87 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
88 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
89 an unrelated coroutine.
90 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
91 more detail in Coro::State.
92 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
93 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
94 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
95 invalidating pointers.
96
974.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
98 - added Coro::throw method.
99 - minor code cleanups.
100
1014.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
102 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
103 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
104 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
105 or use tracing).
106 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
107 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
108 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
109
1104.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
111 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
112 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
113
1144.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
115 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
116 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
117 debugging, tracing and much more.
118 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
119 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
120 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
121 flags.
122 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
123 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
124 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
125 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
126 - added Coro::killall.
127 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
128 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
129 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
130 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
131 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
132 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
133 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
134 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
135 - many minor tweaks.
136
1373.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
138 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
139
1403.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
141 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
142 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
143
1443.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
145 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
146 pst's sometimes.
147 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
148 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
149 be threadsafe...).
150 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
151 but stateful semantics.
152 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
153 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
154
1553.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
156 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
157 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
158 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
159 (EXPERIMENTAL).
160 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
161 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
162 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
163 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
164
1653.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
166 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
167 it by default.
168 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
169 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
170 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
171 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
172 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
173 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
174 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
175 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
176 performance.
177
1783.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
179 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
180 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
181
1823.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
183 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
184 them without asking.
185
1863.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
187 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
188 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
189 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
190 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
191 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
192 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
193
1943.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
195 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
196 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
197 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
198 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
199 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
200 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
201 obsolete platforms.
202
2033.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
204 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
205 but was rather flaky in practise.
206 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
207 it was reused.
208 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
209 in cede_notself.
210
2113.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
212 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
213 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
214 documented and - hopefully - improved.
215 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
216 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
217 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
218 that could errronously trigger.
219 - fix various large and small memleaks.
220 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
221 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
222 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
223 - added Coro::guard function.
224 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
225 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
226 and 128k coros with async_pool).
227 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
228
2293.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
230 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
231 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
232 - simplify configuration for users.
233 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
234 their coro replacements.
235
2363.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
237 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
238 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
239 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
240 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
241 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
242 - save/restore tainted status.
243 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
244
2453.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
246 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
247 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
248 - give a better error message on deadlock.
249 - document Coro::nready.
250 - enhanced testsuite.
251
2523.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
253 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
254
2553.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
256 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
257 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
258 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
259 pool (size currently hardcoded).
260 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
261 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
262 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
263 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
264 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
265 check for changed watchers.
266 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
267 per event.
268 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
269 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
270 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
271 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
272 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
273 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
274 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
275 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
276 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
277 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
278 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
279 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
280 - updated to newest libcoro.
281 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
282 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
283 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
284 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
285 if somebody asks for it :)
286 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
287 spuriously without the event having happened.
288
2892.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
4 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket 290 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
5 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/. 291 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
6 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to 292 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to
7 make LWP non-blocking. 293 make LWP non-blocking.
8 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it). 294 - should work with perl 5.9.x now (Andreas König made me do it).

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