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Revision 1.170 by root, Sat Dec 2 18:03:55 2006 UTC vs.
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1Revision history for Perl extension Coro. 1Revision history for Perl extension Coro.
2 2
3TODO: transfer flags must be per state 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)).
4 7
53.0 8 - fix a spurious memory read.
9 - Coro::EV no longer keeps the eventloop "alive".
10
114.2 Fri Nov 9 20:47:05 CET 2007
12 - enable/disable tracing from a new coroutine, not a pooled one.
13 - fix a memleak in Coro::Event.
14 - removed killall call from fork_eval.
15 - made sure store_fd is already loaded so that fork_eval
16 does not have to parse autoload in each subprocess.
17 - only use assembly method if -O switch is in $Config{optimize}.
18 - add (optional) Coro::EV module, so far the best event loop module
19 directly supported by Coro.
20 - if the event model is EV, use EV::DNS to resolve
21 stuff in Coro::Util.
22 - don't get confused by multiple event notifications in Coro::Handle.
23 - initial support for EV (libevent interface).
24 - require Event and EV using configure_requires, to force their existance.
25
264.13 Wed Oct 24 07:26:45 CEST 2007
27 - add Coro::Storable::blocking_thaw.
28 - use a vastly more complicated technique to localise
29 $SIG{__WARN/DIE__} that also works on perls <= 5.8.8.
30 - use a coroutine for the idle callback Coro::Event,
31 instead of running Event in the current coroutine context.
32 This also catches recursive invocations.
33 - actually report fork errors in gethostbyname and inet_aton.
34
354.11 Thu Oct 11 02:40:24 CEST 2007
36 - port to threaded perls.
37
384.1 Thu Oct 11 02:38:16 CEST 2007
39 - incompatible change: $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} will now
40 be local to each coro (see Coro::State).
41 - incompatible change: for very deep reasons, cede and cede_notself
42 cannot return anything, so nothing will be returned.
43 - possibly bring back 5.10 compatibility (untested).
44 - work around stupid (and wrong) warning on 5.10 :(.
45 - overlay the saved state over the context stack. This saves
46 a few hundred bytes per coroutine on average and also
47 speeds up context switching a bit.
48 - further tune default stack sizes.
49 - (more) correctly calculate stack usage in coro_rss.
50 - Coro::Storable::blocking_* did not properly lock
51 resulting in races between coroutines.
52 - added Coro::Storable::guard.
53 - stopping to trace a coroutine could destroy the cctx of
54 an unrelated coroutine.
55 - explain the relationship between Perl and C coroutines in
56 more detail in Coro::State.
57 - Coro::Util::inet_aton did not short-circuit dotted quad forms,
58 causing a fork per resolve. This also affected Coro::Socket.
59 - switch to a separate stack in $coro->call/eval to avoid
60 invalidating pointers.
61
624.03 Sat Oct 6 21:24:00 CEST 2007
63 - added Coro::throw method.
64 - minor code cleanups.
65
664.02 Sat Oct 6 02:36:47 CEST 2007
67 - fix a very minor per-coroutine memleak (a single codereference).
68 - fixed a bug where the currently in-use c context would be freed
69 prematurely (can happen only when programs change the stacksize
70 or use tracing).
71 - tracing can no longer keep a coro alive after it terminated.
72 - do static branch prediction in the common path for gcc. gives
73 about 2-5% speed improvement here.
74
754.01 Fri Oct 5 22:10:49 CEST 2007
76 - instead of recreating *a* standard output handle we simply
77 use STDOUT, which is faster and hopefully more robust.
78
794.0 Fri Oct 5 12:56:00 CEST 2007
80 - incompatibly changed Coro::Storable::freeze.
81 - major new feature: added Coro::Debug, for interactive coroutine
82 debugging, tracing and much more.
83 - major bug fix: unbelievable, but true: $_, $/ and many other
84 "saved" variables actually weren't being saved. This has been fixed,
85 of course, while increasing performance while losing all the save
86 flags.
87 - save flags are gone, and all the api functions dealing with them.
88 - added Coro::Semaphore::adjust.
89 - added Coro::Util::fork_eval.
90 - added Coro::Storable::{nfreeze,blocking_{freeze,nfreeze}}.
91 - added Coro::killall.
92 - reduce initial stack sizes to allow for "micro-coroutines".
93 - better async_pool resource management, moved parts of async_pool
94 handling to XS (major speed improvement).
95 - actually croak before modifying important data structures.
96 - refuse to transfer while compiling.
97 - possibly support eval EXPR better now.
98 - enable assembly per default on linux+bsd x86+amd64.
99 - all internal members were renamed _something for easier subclassing.
100 - many minor tweaks.
101
1023.63 Wed May 16 14:10:06 CEST 2007
103 - implement handcoded assembly for x86/amd64 SVR ABI.
104
1053.62 Fri Apr 27 21:36:06 CEST 2007
106 - upgrade libcoro (which might set unwind info correctly).
107 - change default on linux to setjmp/longjmp.
108
1093.61 Thu Apr 19 12:36:18 CEST 2007
110 - Coro::Storable caused an endless loop when thawing invalid
111 pst's sometimes.
112 - use a Semaphore in Coro::Storable, as Storable doesn't
113 seem to be reentrant (although it is documented to
114 be threadsafe...).
115 - fix Coro::Signal to bring back the original unreliable
116 but stateful semantics.
117 - fixed a lot of typos in Coro.pm (patch submitted by David
118 Steinbrunner, which applied flawlessly).
119
1203.6 Sat Apr 14 17:13:31 CEST 2007
121 - added some bugfixes to get eg/myhttpd working again.
122 - added Coro::Storable for often-cede'ing freeze/thaw.
123 - try to do a clean exit when a coroutine calls exit
124 (EXPERIMENTAL).
125 - got rid of indirect call through _coro_init.
126 - updated the partly antique examples in eg/ to
127 work again and be a bit less magic, too.
128 - fixed Coro::Signal semantics to work as documented again.
129
1303.55 Sun Mar 25 01:20:47 CET 2007
131 - add SAVE_DEFFH to save the default filehandle and enable
132 it by default.
133 - finally move socket-operations from Coro::Socket to Coro::Handle
134 to be able to unblock foreign sockets.
135 - add Coro::State::save_also and guarded_save.
136 - add count accessor to Coro::Semaphore.
137 - add Coro::State::cctx_stacksize.
138 - just for the fun of it, do not rely on implicit context,
139 which can dramatically improve performance, but people
140 using windows-process-emulation perls do not care much about
141 performance.
142
1433.51 Sun Mar 4 14:18:04 CET 2007
144 - fixed a problem when you weakened references to Coro::State's
145 (patch by Yuval Kogman).
146
1473.501 Wed Feb 28 12:44:07 CET 2007
148 - rename some global symbols as macosx from hell redefines
149 them without asking.
150
1513.5 Tue Feb 13 20:22:53 CET 2007
152 - do AnyEvent model detection earlier, avoiding problems
153 caused by first using AnyEvent and later Coro::Event.
154 - implement and document Coro::Event event objects.
155 - fix a potential problem in Coro::Event causing crashes.
156 - initialise PL_comppad when creating a new coroutine,
157 avoids crashes on early coro destruction.
158
1593.41 Mon Jan 22 19:19:49 CET 2007
160 - readline on Coro::Handle did not support undefined $/,
161 nor did it deliver partial lines on EOF or error.
162 - implement malloc fallback for stack allocation because
163 stupid broken idiotic OSX has a stupid broken
164 idiotic fits-the-whole-os mmap "implementation" and
165 my dick feels longer if Coro is portable even to
166 obsolete platforms.
167
1683.4 Fri Jan 19 21:52:54 CET 2007
169 - remove t/09_timer.t, as it isn't really testing much
170 but was rather flaky in practise.
171 - async_pool coro would keep arguments and callback alive until
172 it was reused.
173 - cancellation of a coroutine could cause spurious idle calls
174 in cede_notself.
175
1763.3 Sat Jan 6 03:45:00 CET 2007
177 - implement $coro->on_destroy.
178 - Coro::Event blocking semantics have been changed,
179 documented and - hopefully - improved.
180 - fix nice adding, not subtracting, from priority.
181 - fix ->prio and api_is_ready (patch by Mark Hinds).
182 - fixed an assert ("... == prev__cctx->idle_te")
183 that could errronously trigger.
184 - fix various large and small memleaks.
185 - use a (hopefully) more stable cancel implementation
186 that immediately frees the coroutine data.
187 - cede/cede_notself return a status now.
188 - added Coro::guard function.
189 - added a global coroutine pool for jobs (on my machine,
190 I can create and execute 48k simple coros/s with async,
191 and 128k coros with async_pool).
192 - Coro::AIO now uses the coroutine priority as io priority.
193
1943.2 Fri Dec 22 05:07:09 CET 2006
195 - improve portability to slightly older perls.
196 - use cleaner coroutine destruction.
197 - simplify configuration for users.
198 - optionally (unrecommended) prefer perl functions over
199 their coro replacements.
200
2013.11 Tue Dec 5 13:11:24 CET 2006
202 - fixed some bogus assert's, but as perl.h disables assert even
203 without NDEBUG (thank you very much), not too many people should
204 notice (that did include myself). Andreas König noticed, though :)
205 - do not save/restore PL_sortcxix on >= 5.9.x, it doesn't seem to have
206 it. Also noticed by Andreas König :)
207 - save/restore tainted status.
208 - verified to pass the testsuite on my 5.9.5.
209
2103.1 Mon Dec 4 23:03:40 CET 2006
211 - INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: $/ is now per-coroutine (but slow).
212 - incompatible change: transfer flags are now per-state.
213 - give a better error message on deadlock.
214 - document Coro::nready.
215 - enhanced testsuite.
216
2173.01 Sun Dec 3 23:47:42 CET 2006
218 - forgot to include Coro::Timer.
219
2203.0 Sun Dec 3 22:57:25 CET 2006
6 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon: 221 - the "FINALLY COMPLETELY STABLE" release (coming soon:
7 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release). 222 the "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" release).
8 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack 223 - implement a new stack sharing algorithm, which uses a stack
9 pool (size currently hardcoded). 224 pool (size currently hardcoded).
10 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic). 225 - make stack sharing mandatory (it no longer uses a heuristic).

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