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Revision 1.161 by root, Mon Nov 27 02:08:55 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.263 by root, Sat Oct 6 19:25:00 2007 UTC

1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
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33.0 3TODO: localise SIG{__DIE__} and/or __WARN__
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)).
8
94.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
10 - added Coro::throw method.
11 - minor code cleanups.
12
134.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
14 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
15 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
16 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
17 or use tracing).
18 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
19 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
20 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
21
224.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
23 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
24 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
25
264.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
27 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
28 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
29 debugging, tracing and much more.
30 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
31 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
32 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
33 flags.
34 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
35 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
36 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
37 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
38 - added Coro::killall.
39 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
40 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
41 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
42 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
43 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
44 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
45 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
46 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
47 - many minor tweaks.
48
493.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
50 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
51
523.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
53 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
54 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
55
563.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
57 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
58 pst's sometimes.
59 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
60 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
61 be threadsafe...).
62 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
63 but stateful semantics.
64 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
65 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
66
673.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
68 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
69 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
70 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
71 (EXPERIMENTAL).
72 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
73 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
74 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
75 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
76
773.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
78 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
79 it by default.
80 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
81 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
82 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
83 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
84 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
85 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
86 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
87 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
88 performance.
89
903.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
91 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
92 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
93
943.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
95 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
96 them without asking.
97
983.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
99 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
100 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
101 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
102 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
103 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
104 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
105
1063.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
107 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
108 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
109 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
110 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
111 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
112 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
113 obsolete platforms.
114
1153.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
116 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
117 but was rather flaky in practise.
118 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
119 it was reused.
120 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
121 in cede_notself.
122
1233.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
124 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
125 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
126 documented and - hopefully - improved.
127 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
128 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
129 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
130 that could errronously trigger.
131 - fix various large and small memleaks.
132 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
133 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
134 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
135 - added Coro::guard function.
136 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
137 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
138 and 128k coros with async_pool).
139 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
140
1413.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
142 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
143 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
144 - simplify configuration for users.
145 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
146 their coro replacements.
147
1483.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
149 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
150 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
151 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
152 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
153 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
154 - save/restore tainted status.
155 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
156
1573.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
158 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
159 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
160 - give a better error message on deadlock.
161 - document Coro::nready.
162 - enhanced testsuite.
163
1643.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
165 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
166
1673.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
168 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
169 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
4 - reimplement a new stack sharing algorithm. 170 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
171 pool (size currently hardcoded).
5 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic). 172 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).
6 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use. 173 - eval/die no longer cause weird problems under heavy use.
7 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but 174 - Coro::Event could cause livelocks if it was used but
8 no Coro::Event watchers were used. 175 no Coro::Event watchers were used.
176 - Coro::Event now uses asynccheck as prepare does not
177 check for changed watchers.
178 - Coro::Event allows multiple waiting coros and will wake up one
179 per event.
9 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now. 180 - Coro::Event should be cleaner and more efficient now.
181 - new utility function Coro::unblock_sub.
182 - document the sad fact that Event is no longer reentrant.
183 - putting a coroutine into the ready queue twice could under
184 some circumstances lead to stack corruption.
10 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported 185 - minor incompatibility: subclassing Coro::State is supported
11 directly now without going through a _coro_state member. 186 directly now without going through a _coro_state member.
12 - state/coro switching is much faster now. 187 - state/coro switching is much faster now.
13 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup. 188 - very minor optimisations and code/documentation cleanup.
14 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining. 189 - avoid problems due to compiler inlining.
15 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead. 190 - removed timers from Coro::Timer -> use AnyEvent instead.
16 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler. 191 - replaced Coro::idle coroutine by (cleaner) idle handler.
17 - updated to newest libcoro. 192 - updated to newest libcoro.
18 - implement enhanced support for valgrind. 193 - implement enhanced support for valgrind.
194 - implement is_ready and return value for ready.
195 - removed Coro::Cont, it was a misnomer (it's generators),
196 and it was somewhat annoying to get it right. Will come back
197 if somebody asks for it :)
198 - many ->wait methods and Coro::Event could return
199 spuriously without the event having happened.
19 200
202.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006 2012.5 Tue Nov 7 12:22:33 CET 2006
21 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket 202 - made Coro::Util, Coro::Select, Coro::Handle and Coro::Socket
22 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/. 203 use AnyEvent, moved them to Coro/.
23 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to 204 - added Coro::LWP which contains all the uglyness required to

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